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Lawn Mower Tires – The Essential Difference The necessary divergence in replacing a car tire and flat tire of a lawn mower is, * You do not carry a spare tire with you all the time when you move along with your lawn mower. * Your equipments for replacing the tire like jack, spanners etc. are not with you, they are in your basement workshop. * Your house is nearby so you may summon support from your family members. * You may not be in a hurry to alter the tire and you are not putting any person to difficultness by leaving a vehicle with a flat tire on your premises, as you would if you leave your vehicle on a public road. * You may change the tire at a more commodious time. * Depending upon the size of tire, you may require a great deal of external help. Changing the tire A lawn mower works on an undulating surface too. Therefore if your tire has gone flat where not all the tires are on a level surface, do not undertake to modify a flat tire at that place. Depending upon where the tire has gone flat, you may change the following routine slightly, but ascertain that the spirit of safety precautions is not violated. If you have a portable air compressor with you, (even a foot operated one will do), try to inflate the tires and then shift your lawn tractor to a flat and level surface, it will be best for the tractor. If you do not have an air compressor and the flat area is nearby, take your tractor in, as is condition, to the flat surface. The lawn mower tires are a rugged lot. The tire will take this punishment without a murmur. The procedure for altering the tire is as follows. * You have already brought the tractor on a flat and level surface. Park it there. Shut off the engine. Pull the hand brake and remove the tractor keys in order to prevent accidental re-starting. * Clean the tire to be substituted and the area around the tire with water. This will take away any dirt from the nuts keeping the tires and reduce the work load on you while taking out the tire. * Loosen the nuts keeping the tire slightly. Make it a point to see to it that all the nuts are loosened slightly. Any one remaining to be loosened might give you a problem later on. Do not back off completely. Just loosen them and that is all. If you are not in a position to back off even a single nut, do not carry on further. Retighten the loosened nuts and ask for professional help. * Fix up other wheels with a wheel lock or slip a wooden plank or a stone so that the wheel may not move. Do this to two wheels at least. * Next slip a hydraulic jack or a crew jack at a commodious place on the chassis, (This place is ordinarily conveyed in the maintenance manual) and raise the wheel to be replaced). * Back off all the nuts keeping the wheel and take out the wheel. You may require a good deal of aid in this as the lawn wheels are more or less more prominent than car wheels. * After taking out the wheel, clean the brake drum (if you have one) and wash off all the dirt that has collected, remove anything lodged in there. * Put a new wheel and get the other one repaired. Safety Precautions * Wear hand gloves all the time. This will prevent injuries to your hand. * When loosening the nuts, give peculiar attention to slippage of spanners. They may cause severe injuries to hand or head as you will not be capable to control your motion when spanner slips. * NEVER EVER change a tire on an undulating surface. There are a great deal of cases when the jacks have slipped from their position due to this and deaths have resulted from humans being crushed beneath lawn mower.
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