New tires on old rims
Most old tractor rims clean up fine — wire brush, paint, tube. Some are done, and mounting rubber on them wastes your money. Greg’s honest checklist for telling the difference.
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ANTIQUE
Antique Tractor & Garden Tractor
Original-series garden tractors were built before tire sizing was standardized, and half the fun of owning one is figuring out what actually fits. These are the fitment guides we wish existed when a customer calls asking what goes on a 1968 narrow-frame.
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The Farmall Cub & Super A tire guide
The Cub runs 4.00-12 fronts and 8.3-24 rears; the Super A runs 5.00-15 and 9.00-24. Here’s the rest — why cultivating tractors want ribs and lugs, and what to do about seventy-year-old rims.
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The Ford 8N / 9N / 2N tire guide
An 8N runs 5.50-16 fronts and 10-28 rears (early units and every 9N: 4.00-19 fronts). Here’s the full N-series answer — tri-rib fronts, rear tread choice, and why tubes aren’t optional.
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The round-fender JD 110 tire guide
Deere’s first garden tractor changed specs through the sixties and has had sixty years of wheel swaps since. Here’s how to read — or measure — exactly what your 110 needs.
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Restoring the original tire look
Right tread era, matte-black sidewalls, rubber that’s actually round. Greg on why fresh reproduction beats cracked originals at shows, the whitewall question, and when patina wins.
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Tri-rib front tires, explained
No power steering means the front tread does the steering. Here’s how rib tires bite, when three ribs beat five, and the honest cases where a modern owner should switch away.
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The Wheel Horse C-series tire guide
The C-160 runs 16x6.50-8 front and 23x10.50-12 rear, turf on both. Here’s the full answer — ply, tread choice, tubes on old rims, and how to confirm the other C-series machines.
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The John Deere 318 tire guide
Stock sizes are 16x6.50-8 front and 23x10.50-12 rear — here’s the full answer, including the ply to buy, when to run ag tread, and the variant that fools people.
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The complete Cub Cadet original-series tire fitment guide
The original narrow-frame Cub Cadets were built before tire sizing was standardized. Here’s how to get fronts, rears, and tubes right on a 50-year-old garden tractor.
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