Little Red Wagon Question

Fonzie · #1 04/03/08, 06:57 PM

My son and I are going fishin tomorrow and I wanted to use the wagon that I bought him a few years ago. We have to walk a long distance on a dike and his wagon would sure come in handy to haul all our gear.

Here's the problem...there are 4 tubeless tires on the thing and they are all completely flat. As in flopping around on the rim flat. I went to the gas station and paid the 75 cents for air, but try as I might, I only got one tire to inflate. Is there some sort of trick to getting these tubeless tires to inflate? I tried all sorts of things but the air just kept leaking out around the rim before the tire would "catch" and inflate. Anybody got any pointers for me?

-Thanks

logbuilder · #2 04/03/08, 07:37 PM

Tie something around the circumference like a rope or wire and tighten it. That will cause the beads to go towards the outer rim. Then hit it with a blast of air and it will likely pop the bead in. Be sure and take whatever you tied around it off before you fill it with much air.

Fonzie · #3 04/03/08, 08:46 PM

Good Idea!
Now why didn't I think of that...

Oldcountryboy · #4 04/03/08, 11:18 PM

Do you happen to have a two wheel dolly around somewhere. That's what I started using. I would place a 5 gallon bucket on the plateform and run a bungie cord around the bucket to keep it in place. In the bucket you can carry a minnow bucket inside of it or a bucket of worms. Toward the top I would strap a backpack on it that carried my fishing gear, lunch, water, and whatever else I thought I needed. I also tied the fishing poles standing up on the plateform.

The two wheel dolly is very handy and easy to manuvere around or over objects. Last year I would park my vehicle and walk over a quarter of a mile down the gravel/sand bar to fish in my favorite spot. It comes in handy to go search for some wood to build a campfire nearby and real handy to haul all those fish back to the van.

This was an ideal given to me by Moopups and has worked out well.

EDDIE BUCK · #5 04/04/08, 12:08 AM

Get a bottle of" SLIME" from Walmart. Put about 1/4 in each tire,pump up with air, and it should be ready from then on and even if one does go flat, the bead will still be tight, unless someone pulls it around flat, then LOL tell them after they fix the tire, we'll go fishing

Hope The Fish Bite. Oh one other tip, if you tie something around the tire to tighten it like Logbuilder said, make a loop or half turn in the rope and stick a large screwdriver or tiretool through the loop to give you leverage to twist the rope. Also I always have better luck to take the valve stem core out which allows a stronger air blast and makes the tire seal when nothing else seems to work.. Eddie

**Shrek** · #6 04/04/08, 05:09 AM

When the tires lose the bead seal on my lawn tractor or trailer, I clean the rim with steel wool, then spray just a spritz of starting fluid into the tire and toss a match at the rim and duck.

The vapor flash flame beads the tire when it ignites.

Up North Louie · #7 04/04/08, 05:37 AM

A ratchet strap is quick, easy and effective. You get to keep your eyebrows,

and it's useful in other applications.

Don

Auric · #8 04/04/08, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Up North Louie

A ratchet strap is quick, easy and effective. You get to keep your eyebrows,

and it's useful in other applications.

Don

I second that. I have a ratchet strap that feeds back into itself that I keep in the workshop for expressly this purpose.

WANR · #9 04/04/08, 10:20 AM

put greese on the bead of the rim and the tire if you can it will help take up the air gap.

Fonzie · #10 04/04/08, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oldcountryboy

Do you happen to have a two wheel dolly around somewhere. That's what I started using. I would place a 5 gallon bucket on the plateform and run a bungie cord around the bucket to keep it in place. In the bucket you can carry a minnow bucket inside of it or a bucket of worms. Toward the top I would strap a backpack on it that carried my fishing gear, lunch, water, and whatever else I thought I needed. I also tied the fishing poles standing up on the plateform.

The two wheel dolly is very handy and easy to manuvere around or over objects. Last year I would park my vehicle and walk over a quarter of a mile down the gravel/sand bar to fish in my favorite spot. It comes in handy to go search for some wood to build a campfire nearby and real handy to haul all those fish back to the van.

This was an ideal given to me by Moopups and has worked out well.

I have one of those 2 wheeled carts that old ladies in Chicago use to bring their groceries home. I thought a wagon might be better because between the two of us we have quite a bit of gear. As it turns out a kindly mechanic in Seneca Illinois filled the tires for us.

btw, the fishing was great today.

Here is a pic of my boy with a nice cooling lake smallie.

Little Red Wagon Question - Homesteading Questions

Little Red Wagon Question - Homesteading Questions

woodsrunner · #11 04/04/08, 10:55 PM

Several years ago Pelenaka had one of those wagons. The tires were made of such crappy rubber that none of the tricks would make them seal. Tractor supply had the proper size tires on the correct rims for around $20.00 for all four. I spent a week messing with the old tires and the best I could do is get one of them to hold air for a day. Two of the others would seal long enough to fill, but would go flat in a couple hours. $20.00 and an hours work for the new ones. They lasted 2 years before we sold the wagon off. They were still holding air last fall when we sold it.

Oldcountryboy · #12 04/04/08, 11:58 PM

Oh my, that's a nice catch. That's what I like to see, kids having fun in the God given great outdoors.

Keep taking him fishing and he will always be your friend.