Replacing lawn mower tires is different from replacing usual car tires. There are several reasons for that. First and foremost, you don’t carry a spare lawn mower tire with you. You don’t carry the required tools either, such as a jack and the spanners. Then, there is also the point that you might not be too keen on it because a lawnmower is never needed on an urgent basis—you can always put it off.
However, if and when you decide to change your lawn mower tire, this is how you should go about it. For your lawn mower parts, you first need to get a tire. Check your local retailer or also check online.
You would need a portable air compressor. Even those manually operated ones will be enough to do the job. With the help of this device, fill in air in your tires. Then move the tractor to a flat surface. But even if you aren’t able to inflate the tires, you should take them on the flat surface for the repair job at least.
The following are the steps involved:-
- Park your lawnmower on the flat surface. Put the engine off. Engage the handbrake and remove the keys from the ignition.
- Completely clean the tire. Use water. This helps because it removes the dirt that is clogged in the holding nuts and makes the job easier.
- Now, start unscrewing the nuts. All nuts should be loosened by a slight amount. If one remains tight, it could be troublesome afterward. Don’t remove them completely—just loosen them. But, if you aren’t able to loosen even one of the nuts by some measure, you must tighten all of them and take your lawnmower to a professional.
- Barring the wheel that is being serviced, fix all the other wheels up so that they don’t move. Use stones or wooden planks to do this job. You should fix up at least two wheels.
- The next step is the crucial one—take a hydraulic or a crew jack and put it in the proper place on the chassis. Refer to your manual to see which this place is. Then, using the jack, raise the tire that you have to replace.
- Now, remove all the nuts that are holding this tire. Just note that the wheels of the lawn mower tires are bigger than usual car wheels. You might need some help here.
- If you have a brake drum, this is the time to clean it completely. Take the opportunity to wash away all the dirt that has accumulated in it.
- Now, replace the tire you removed with a new one. Send the one that developed the snag to be repaired.
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