Can't Find Tire Leak

[JimP2014]

Every time I see more replies to this it motivates me more to get outside to make a movie like not photoshopped kind of movie just a movie of what the tire pressure is on both tires in the rear and then post it to YouTube cuz I like to know myself I see people all the time filling their car tires when the temperature drops and I honestly don't know what the tire pressure is in those two rear tires but I would like to make an unedited movie of whatever the readings are that's what they are and take it from there.

Jim

So it took a while I don't know why to get a reading on the rear right tire but it's about 10 lb PSI the rear left tire seems to be inflated even more I couldn't even get a reading on that again I don't know why that is the case but the one I got the 10 PSI on I'm pretty sure it was the one that was leaking air.

Jim

 

[StarTech]

Probably the valve stem is now clogged.

 

[JimP2014]

Probably the valve stem is now clogged.

Okay start tech it has to warm up a bit

I'll check it again if we get temperatures near 40° f soon I didn't spend a lot of time trying to get a reading on the other tire like maybe 5 seconds and trying to avoid getting my knees on the ground cuz I might not be able to get back up.

Jim

 

[JimP2014]

Okay start tech it has to warm up a bit

I'll check it again if we get temperatures near 40° f soon I didn't spend a lot of time trying to get a reading on the other tire like maybe 5 seconds and trying to avoid getting my knees on the ground cuz I might not be able to get back up.

Jim

I told you I couldn't get a reading which was true what I failed to say is I actually got the video of me letting air out of the tire so there's nothing wrong with the valve stem being clogged

 

[StarTech]

Simply you can let air would had been enough. But I seen the valve cores clogged and sometime even the sealant gets into the air gauge. Just need a second gauge to use and make sure things are okay. I have had tire gauges to fail here and that why I have at least two around all the time.

 

[JimP2014]

Simply you can let air would had been enough. But I seen the valve cores clogged and sometime even the sealant gets into the air gauge. Just need a second gauge to use and make sure things are okay. I have had tire gauges to fail here and that why I have at least two around all the time.

Yeah but I wasn't really testing the valve stem and I'm wondering about what you're saying regarding the gauges cuz it's a real pia to use that gauge I would prefer one where you can just press down on the valve stem without some sort of angle feature built into the tire pressure gauge itself I haven't looked but that would be ideal you just press directly onto the valve stem and you get the reading but having said all that I can tell you an inspection it has way more air than the 10 psi on the right rear
Tire and in fact maybe during the summer that 10 psi was really like 14 psi and the temperature's been around 18° f , I don't know if that accounts for all the air loss I could fill it up now just to see but I really think the tire that had the problem was the lower right rear which is the one I was able to get a reading from which is the 10 psi.

But this is a separate unrelated issue but if that whole thing gets screwed up and this is my thinking from the get-go I really want a larger tire because on the highest setting for the mower deck it's not high enough in fact I see that complaint quite often and I don't work in the business of lawn mower repair I only look because I was trying to figure out how to fix it and apparently you could increase the tire pressure on what you got or maybe get larger rims and tires to get the thing off the ground more I don't know what you think about this and it's not on topic but that's why I didn't care about what happens to this tire and rim because I was thinking of replacing both in the rear maybe I need to do the front too I don't know but the highest setting is not high enough for the mower deck.

Send from my phone please excuse typos.

Jim

 

[Tiger Small Engine]

Yeah but I wasn't really testing the valve stem and I'm wondering about what you're saying regarding the gauges cuz it's a real pia to use that gauge I would prefer one where you can just press down on the valve stem without some sort of angle feature built into the tire pressure gauge itself I haven't looked but that would be ideal you just press directly onto the valve stem and you get the reading but having said all that I can tell you an inspection it has way more air than the 10 psi on the right rear
Tire and in fact maybe during the summer that 10 psi was really like 14 psi and the temperature's been around 18° f , I don't know if that accounts for all the air loss I could fill it up now just to see but I really think the tire that had the problem was the lower right rear which is the one I was able to get a reading from which is the 10 psi.

But this is a separate unrelated issue but if that whole thing gets screwed up and this is my thinking from the get-go I really want a larger tire because on the highest setting for the mower deck it's not high enough in fact I see that complaint quite often and I don't work in the business of lawn mower repair I only look because I was trying to figure out how to fix it and apparently you could increase the tire pressure on what you got or maybe get larger rims and tires to get the thing off the ground more I don't know what you think about this and it's not on topic but that's why I didn't care about what happens to this tire and rim because I was thinking of replacing both in the rear maybe I need to do the front too I don't know but the highest setting is not high enough for the mower deck.

Send from my phone please excuse typos.

Jim

Tires are like batteries, there is more to it then meets the eye. Ideally you want a low pressure tire gauge to check tire pressure.
When a tire has sidewall dry rot I try a sealant which sometimes works and sometimes does not. If it works, great, if it doesn’t then I only lost the cost of some sealant. The last thing I am going to do is remove the tire, break the bead, get and install a tube, fight with putting the tube in, and charge the customer for labor and tube. So in a case like that, it is simple, I don’t install tubes because it is a pain in the butt. Not offering a service such as installing tubes in tires comes from personal experience. When you run your own business you don’t have to do every little thing a customer wants.

You can usually adjust the deck height with the deck hangers and front hook up. On level concrete surface, at correct tire pressure, break out the tape measure and get your measurements and go from there.

 

[JimP2014]

Tires are like batteries, there is more to it then meets the eye. Ideally you want a low pressure tire gauge to check tire pressure.
When a tire has sidewall dry rot I try a sealant which sometimes works and sometimes does not. If it works, great, if it doesn’t then I only lost the cost of some sealant. The last thing I am going to do is remove the tire, break the bead, get and install a tube, fight with putting the tube in, and charge the customer for labor and tube. So in a case like that, it is simple, I don’t install tubes because it is a pain in the butt.

You can usually adjust the deck height with the deck hangers and front hook up. On level concrete surface, at correct tire pressure, break out the tape measure and get your measurements and go from there.

Okay I'll take your advice on those hanger things I really think they're maxed out if you know what I mean but as far as fixing a tire I figured what do I got to lose so I fill it with sealant and either it works or it doesn't but I haven't said that I really want to get the mower deck higher and like I said I've seen many references if you do a search on mower deck at the highest setting is too low that's what I was searching on. Years ago we had a John Deere riding mower and when you set the deck to the highest setting you could go over a curb and not scrape the bottom of the blade or the mower deck itself it was just unbelievable the adjustment on that thing.


Jim

 

[Tiger Small Engine]

Okay I'll take your advice on those hanger things I really think they're maxed out if you know what I mean but as far as fixing a tire I figured what do I got to lose so I fill it with sealant and either it works or it doesn't but I haven't said that I really want to get the mower deck higher and like I said I've seen many references if you do a search on mower deck at the highest setting is too low that's what I was searching on. Years ago we had a John Deere riding mower and when you set the deck to the highest setting you could go over a curb and not scrape the bottom of the blade or the mower deck itself it was just unbelievable the adjustment on that thing.


Jim

Riding mowers are chronically set low from the factory and it is not uncommon to max out at 3.5” on adjusted deck height. When leveling the deck, take measurements on the deck itself for your height adjustments. To determine the actual cutting height, measure from the blade tip to concrete. Two different measurements you see.

 

[JimP2014]

Riding mowers are chronically set low from the factory and it is not uncommon to max out at 3.5” on adjusted deck height. When leveling the deck, take measurements on the deck itself for your height adjustments. To determine the actual cutting height, measure from the blade tip to concrete. Two different measurements you see.

Okay tiger I got you on that thanks for replying but I do recall getting on the ground and looking at that whole setup and everything was jammed up near the frame going up say towards the seat.

Jim