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offgrid 
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
 Topic: Shower LeakPosted: 24 Mar 2021 at 3:11pm |
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My tractor tires are probably already 30 years old, look bad but the tubes hold air just fine, so I’m not replacing em. I have a 3 pt mounted blade so extra front weight isn’t needed for road work or snow plowing. It might be for the 3 pt carry all, we’ll see.
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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GlueGuy
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Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2629 |
Posted: 24 Mar 2021 at 10:34am |
The original tires on our tractor are now 23 years old. They will outlive me now that they're foam filled. The extra weight is very very useful when grading. Also makes the tractor more stable on side slopes (which we have in abundance).
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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offgrid
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 23 Mar 2021 at 11:22am |
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I heard the foam is awful to try to get off the rims when you need to replace the tires.
Since I have a 2wd utility tractor I just ballasted the rears. The 11.2/28’s can take about 25 gallons/200 lbs of antifreeze each but then I couldn’t move them readily as the total weight would be around 300 lbs. So I only filled them about halfway which is why I now have extra RV antifreeze. At around 200 lbs I think I can still roll them into my horse trailer when I need to. Seems to be enough ballast for plowing snow and grading the road. |
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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GlueGuy
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Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2629 |
Posted: 23 Mar 2021 at 10:22am |
A couple years ago, I ran one of the front tires through a narrow erosion slot. It squeezed the tire such that it broke the bead, and viola, flat tire. I was about a 1/2 mile from home (long driveway), and had to improvise to get enough air in the tire to get it home. End result was that the tire got damaged enough that it was time for some serious action. So I took it to a local tractor place, and they filled it with foam rubber. That dang rubber is about twice the weight of the water that we'd been previously using (we don't get hard freezes here, so water is "good enough". However, it made the tire 100% flat proof, and I liked the extra weight enough that I had it done to the other front tire as well. I'm saving up my $$ to do it to the rear tires. Only issue will be the tires will require some extra help getting them off/on; they will be very heavy.
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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offgrid
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 22 Mar 2021 at 7:24pm |
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Would you winterize your rpod with beet juice? 😝
Beet juice is some nassty stuff. It’s denser and freezes at a lower temp than pink antifreeze but I didn’t want my tires that heavy anyway (I’d have to have a second tractor to lift ‘em) and it’s not that cold here. Lots of ppl around here use auto antifreeze but you can kill your pooch if it leaks and he drinks it. Besides, RV antifreeze is really cheap and so am I 👍 |
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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podwerkz
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Joined: 11 Mar 2019 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 966 |
Posted: 22 Mar 2021 at 6:28pm |
What? No beet juice?  |
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r･pod 171 gone but not forgotten!
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jato
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Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Kewadin, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 3224 |
Posted: 22 Mar 2021 at 5:48pm |
Good for you. In northern Michigan I have used air for the last 9 years with no issues. The first year the traditional pink antifreeze was used but it was a laborious task to get rid of the antifreeze taste so I said 'never again.' What I like about the air method is that it is so quick, to hook up and go through all the lines twice and unhook takes about 2 minutes at 80 psi (yes dear, I always leave one line open so as not to blow out the pex line). The other is that 1 gallon of RV lasts 8 years as it only takes 16oz total for the 2 sink traps, 1 shower trap, and a tad for the toilet to keep the seal moist throughout the winter. Last fall I had to purchase a gallon of rv antifreeze. Was surprised how much it went up since the last time I purchased a gallon which was 8 years - price then was 79 cents. This time it was $ 3.99 - quite an increase!
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God's pod
'11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
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offgrid
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 22 Mar 2021 at 8:58am |
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I thought about going to the air method but I think I’ll just stick with the pink stuff. I use about a gallon so the cost is around $2.50 a year, and it’s easy to do. We don’t drink the water from the fwt anyway so aftertaste isn’t an issue for us. Besides, I wound up with about 10 extra gallons of antifreeze after overestimating what I needed to ballast my tractor tires last fall, so I have plenty of pink stuff for awhile...
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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lostagain
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Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 22 Mar 2021 at 8:57am |
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I learned the hard way: On some toilets the fresh water valve doesn't drain adequately using air. Dometic suggests disconnecting the supply line where it enters the valve to let the water out. I purchased an aftermarket valve that claims to have better resistance to ice if it freezes, but I still plan on following the Dometic suggestion. The good thing was the valve incident led to me discovering a design defect in the Dometic 300* toilet and they sent me a new one with the design defect fixed for free. The outside shower seems to drain pretty well with air. You can hear and feel the air coming out and can check as it blows for residual water spraying out with the air.
*from the fotos, it looks like FR doesn't use that toilet in the rPod line.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp
Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6288 |
Posted: 22 Mar 2021 at 8:29am |
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It is there and since I would not want to try to patch the outside wall, it will stay there. I am careful to winterize though. This year, I did just air for the first time and it worked okay. I used the RV antifreeze in the traps and toilet bowl only. I remembered to open the low point drains and made sure as much of the residual water as possible was drained. It worked out okay, and I will likely use the air method in the future to avoid having to deal with the antifreeze after-taste.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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