For example: 20x10-8. What exactly do these numbers mean and do I have to get the exact size that comes with my tractor or can I get a tire that is not as wide? Thanks
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15 years ago
Can anyone explain lawn tractor tire sizes
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Try this
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the same size. see also similar previously answered question from january 2007 at:
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tire info:
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If it's not that wide it may not seal around the rim. It's 20 wide 10 deep and rim size is 8.
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Got a flat? Have a tube put in. Cheaper than a new tire.
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No I wanted to use these snow tires on my tractor when I have the plow on. The normal rear tires are 20x10-8 but the snow tires I want only come in 18x6.5-8. If the size is not too drastically different I could get a narrower wheel. I was not going to dismount the snow tires every season so I was planning on buying a used set of wheels anyway.
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15 years ago
Peerless makes chains for 20x10x8.
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______________________ Basically, that's how ALL tires - for automobiles, trucks, and tractors - had their size indicated, long before the present globally used metric system (P-400/50R8 might closely express that tractor tire size in metric). A passenger tire might be P-215/65R-16. Light Truck: LT-235/70-R17.
It seems that tractors have hung on to the old designation system.
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15 years ago
20 inch outside diameter, 10 inches wide, on an 8 inch rim.
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like 20X8 - 8 A taller tire could be 22X8 - 8
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Unless the tire is so rotten the tube would just ooze out through the sidewall.
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I don't think you mean DIAMETER. It's width.
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Never mind. I guess it's OD, screwy way to do it.
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I was talking about the pre-metric sizing. A 20X10 /8 lawn and garden tire was 20 inches TALL, and 10 inches WIDE and fit a 8 ing diameter rim. The sidewalls were roughly 6 inches high
In automotive P-Metric terms they would be something like a P250/60-8
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In racing that kind of sizing made it very easy to figure out final gearing, and to set stagger for circle tracks. In offroad vehicles it makes it very easy to calculate, again, gearing, but also ground clearances. You KNOW, just from the first number of the tire size what the running diameter of the tire is - you have 25" tires on your race car and it is running 6000 RPM down the straight in top gear. You want it to run
7000 RPM - what size tire do you need? You want a tire 6/7ths the size of your current tire - or 25X6/7+ 21.45 inches.