Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Dick Cheeseburger]

33 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

If you read the advert it is for a single tyre, yet the photo shows two, be careful if you go for this one @Six-cylinder

Sneaky!

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

@Six-cylinderDon't trust anyone on here to find you a tyre 🤣

Nor me!

We have owned the JCB for more that 12 years but never had to do much with the tyres except add a bit of air every couple of years. I have no experience of buying tyres for plant at all.

[wuvvum]

Is there not a dead machine lying around which could donate a tyre or a pair of wheels?

[Six-cylinder]

12 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Is there not a dead machine lying around which could donate a tyre or a pair of wheels?

 

[LightBulbFun]

4 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

may as well go the full 9 yards 

[DSdriver]

4 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

A long shot, but we need a 9.00 - 16 10 ply tyre.

Our JCB has burst a hole in the side wall of a front tyre.

New Tyres are hundreds of pounds and all we do is move a around our field and maybe the odd lap by a shiter. It is going to have to be second-hand one.

 

 

What about second hand aircraft tyres - they have to be replaced regularly for safety reasons. I have no idea about a size match but it is the route boatyards go on their straddle carriers.

[DSdriver]

Or cut a bigger hole in the tyre and fill it with concrete or summat

[chaseracer]

Can Chris fix it...?

😃

[Out Run]

Autoshite’s favourite* son may be able to assist. 

[AnthonyG]

Like Saabnut’s mentioned, the most likely source for a s/h tyre would be a collective machinery sale (most rural auctioneers will have at least one a month - in normal times that is) or somewhere that breaks old plant/agricultural machinery.  Given the current restrictions the latter is probably your best bet. 

Do you know anyone into vintage tractors etc?  They might know of likely sources - or of a local farm with dead stuff lying around.

[wuvvum]

18 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Do you know anyone into vintage tractors etc? 

He's married to one.

[chaseracer]

@Mrs6C's a vintage tractor?  🤔😉

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Is there not a dead machine lying around which could donate a tyre or a pair of wheels?

There's a set of rover 75 alloys knocking about... 

[Mrs6C]

40 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Do you know anyone into vintage tractors etc?  They might know of likely sources - or of a local farm with dead stuff lying around.

We do belong to the local vintage tractor club and one of their members helps look after our yellow plant (he was the one who got the small dumper going again) so he would be a good starting point...

It may be able to repaired with a patch on the inside, though an inner tube would be a good option also. Those tyres often used an inner tube. Ours might even have one in place that has failed...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

@Mrs6C's a vintage tractor?  🤔😉

It's better than a wagon.

[jonathan_dyane]

Here you go, two for a fiver

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-wheels-and-tyres-heavy-duty-steel-rims-Michelin-900x16XYtyres-x-2/333778645741?hash=item4db6c1f2ed%3Ag%3AECMAAOSwe5VfkXhy&LH_ItemCondition=4

[beko1987]

I guess part of the issue is by the time you've paid someone with the right kit to come to the fod and pop a wheel and tyre off to inspect your only another half hours labour to just fit new ones there and then... 

Would it be cheaper to buy a whole other jcb and pinch it's wheels and scrap the rest? Or does it not scale up like that... 

[Six-cylinder]

There is a second-hand tyre and tube in Bishop Auckland that looks like it would do the job and if it was local and would go to see it and buy if it looked ok.

Anybody able to check this out for me in Bishop Auckland and store until we can arrange a shitely move?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/900-x-16-Tyre-JCB-Tractor-3-rib-Tyre-9-00-x-16-and-tube/133541914688?hash=item1f17b7e840:g:NJ4AAOSwz0xfgINu

[DSdriver]

Hydraulics are already there so convert suspension to Citroen and run it on three wheels @dollywobbler

[Six-cylinder]

38 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Hydraulics are already there so convert suspension to Citroen and run it on three wheels @dollywobbler

While hanging 850 Kg off the back bucket at full stretch I can get both front wheels off the ground!

If only the rear brakes that are independent worked I could steer as well!

[loserone]

I have bishop auckland in my address, but I've no idea what I'm looking at.  Happy to head over and store assuming it'll fit in a 205

[Six-cylinder]

15 minutes ago, loserone said:

I have bishop auckland in my address, but I've no idea what I'm looking at.  Happy to head over and store assuming it'll fit in a 205

It should fit as it is only a front one of a 2WD machine.

[Six-cylinder]

Blind luck!

Today I took the Maestro for it's end of MOT appraisal to be done and pulled the wiper stalk by accident and it single wiped, great I though I did not know it did that. Then it carried on single wiping, its got intermittent wipers , I did it a few times to prove it was not a fluke. Thing is the wiper stalk give no clue to intermittent function.

I also collected the ZX TD estate with a fresh MOT. It needed a tickle with the sparkly stick and a pair of handbrake cables.

[wuvvum]

That's an odd one.  I've never seen the flick wipe function start the intermittent wipers before.  Normally with those stalks you push down for intermittent.

[Fumbler]

It's only just occurred to me that the "rub strips" on the doors are just vinyl stickers. Perfect. I've been recently looking at a 1998 registered knock-down kit Maestro and it has none whatsoever. Definitely makes the door look a tad bland without them imo.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Blind luck!

Today I took the Maestro for it's end of MOT appraisal to be done and pulled the wiper stalk by accident and it single wiped, great I though I did not know it did that. Then it carried on single wiping, its got intermittent wipers , I did it a few times to prove it was not a fluke. Thing is the wiper stalk give no clue to intermittent function.

I also collected the ZX TD estate with a fresh MOT. It needed a tickle with the sparkly stick and a pair of handbrake cables.

That's why I always RTFM!

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

That's why I always RTFM!

You're no fun!

[Cavcraft]

Ref the JCB tyre, you might find a vulcaniser who could repair that 'burst' sidewall, but to be honest it's probably pointless as it'll end up going somewhere else (on the side). For what it's worth though, you could probably get a little more life out of it by stripping it down, getting a large vulcanised type patch and gluing it in, then whanging the tube back in.

 

Think I still have one or two contacts from my old tyre fitting days, I'll try and dig them out and message you. No promises they'll have anything, but it's worth a try.

[beko1987]

The rest of the tyre looks like the roof on @hairnets MX5 though...

Maybe you could get the tyres sprayed in that indestructable rubber compound stuff? Then fill them with it

[hairnet]

20 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

The rest of the tyre looks like the roof on @hairnets MX5 though...

Maybe you could get the tyres sprayed in that indestructable rubber compound stuff? Then fill them with it

jelus beardy coont ya

you wouldnt be let have a fun machine :P

they dont run veg :P