Ag tires & Rims on a 982

[cub149]

[QUOTE=Matt G.;38199]I would like to try it too, but my biggest worries are welding the center in straight so the wheel tracks true and weld porosity. It'd really suck if the wheel didn't hold air after going through all of that. I've also heard you can take a 6-12 rim and graft a 7" rim from an 8.50" tire on it to get the right rim, as the 6-12 rim apparently has the right offset on the inside, but needs more rim added to the outside. I would like to try this, but I fear it'd be a nightmare getting everything straight, and I imagine a tube would be necessary.

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So the Super rim is 8.5 wide and the rims from my 149 is 8 inches wide? How important is the .5 inch ? I have four rims laying here that I have been looking at to make a set. I think I can do it and if it fails I aint out nothing but time. Or I could trade the two sets of rims I have to someone for one set of supers

[Leon renaud]

Originally Posted by jbollis

Matt
if you had access to plasma cutter you could do the same thing as with the hacksaw. You would just want to make a rest/guide for the plasma head, then just rotate the wheel. Make the guide so it bolts on the tractors frame and you could repeat exact results.

I thought of the plasma cutter also but still think the best deal would be to have the wheels split on a lathe.welding/fabrication is what I did for a living and given the options I'd get the rims split on a lathe and I'd have hoops rolled just so I could use just 2 wheels per tractor.Using the hoops you could widen any rim to any width.Using the axle flange to mount the rim would transfer any bend/runout of the center to the rim when cutting since I've got plenty of extra wheels around I just might try doing up a set!
Leon

[Matt G.]

Originally Posted by cub149

So the Super rim is 8.5 wide and the rims from my 149 is 8 inches wide? How important is the .5 inch ?

Your 149 rims are 8.5", either that or someone put something else on there.

Leon renaud-

That's probably the case, but 99% of us don't have a lathe big enough to do this with, so we have to come up with other things.

[CMA's129]

Wheels of all sizes seem to sell pretty well on E-Pay why not just sell all four wheels and throw in the extra $75 and buy a new set thats already painted and ready to go.
It reminds me of my wife and my mother driving 70 miles to go to a shoe sale!

[Matt G.]

I don't have $75 to throw at a set of rims. I'd rather take two sets of rims I can't give away (They don't sell as well as you think unless they're for 10.50 tires) and that I have less than $10 in, and spend some time cutting and welding.