Case 580 Inner Tubes

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Case 580 Inner Tubes

John Morris	Hi All, It's been a while since I've haunted these forums, but I'm back. I have a 1988 Case 580K backhoe with 17.5-24 rear tires and 12-16.5 front tires. The tires are old, but I don't do enough with the machine to justify replacing them before they are completely worn out. However, I have a bit of a problem with the tires, especially the rear tires, loosing air. They will often hold air all through the summer, but they go flat in a few days in the winter. That's a bit of a pain because I use the machine to plow the driveway. Therefore, I'm thinking about putting inner tubes in at least the rear tires. That said, I don't know much about inner tubes. What size do I need? What valve stem do I need? What else do I need to think about? Thanks for all your help, John
John Roseland	I recently had tubes put in the rear tires of my tractor/loader/backhoe. I had a local Goodyear dealer to do it for me. The tubes were $35.00 each and they charged $50.00 each to install them. I took them to their shop on a trailer. I didn't have to worry about damaging the rims or getting injured doing it myself.
John Morris	Thanks for your note, John. It's good to know that I'm not alone in this. I do suspect that I won't be bringing them to a dealer, though. The lug nuts are rusty enough that I would rather risk damaging the rim and the tire than risk snapping a stud or breaking my back trying to get the tires off and get them onto a trailer that I don't own. Can you tell me what size tubes were installed and what size tires you have?
John Roseland	I think the hardest part of your replacement operation would be getting the lug nuts off. The tires are easy to move around if you keep them balanced.If they start to go over, let them go.You can use the backhoe to put them where ever you want.Use the backhoe to brake the beads loose. The rims may be rusted so badly you may have to do a major sanding and repaint job on them.This is what I found while doing mine. I loaded only the repainted rims to take to the tire dealer. If you do remove the tires from the rims be sure to point the treads in the right direction when remounting them or you will have to remove a tire and turn it around.
john Morris	Well, it turned out that the best solution was to call the local tire place. They set me up with an inner tube for this size tire and advised me on how to get it into the tire without taking the tire off the rim. So far, I have only done the right tire because the bead had broken free of the seat and I could not get it to set again. I hope to get around to the left tire this fall, but that means breaking the bead off the seat, so I'm a little daunted. Fortunately, I did not have to play around with the lug nuts. I ended up taking one bead off the rim because I was clumsy and dropped the old valve stem into the tire. I still think it might be easier to just push the bead back out of the way and slip the tube in. I'll try that on the left side if I'm not clumsy next time.

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