prevous owner put antifreeze in my tires
yikes. somehow he thought this was a good idea. i recently started mowing with the tractor. it was ridding like crap, i mean really really bad. i thought i was ridding on wooden tires. i plucked at one of the valve stems and out shot antifreeze. no wonder the tractor was ridding so badly. when you remove the air and replace it with fluid on a vehicle that has no suspension you remove the cushion the tires provide. i never had a problem until now because i was using it to run a snowthrower. you dont move as fast when removing snow and the snow itself also provides a cushion. my tractor was ridding really really badly, i mean it what borderline whiplash. now im having to remove roughly 5 gallons of this crap from each tire. i find it really annoying when someone uses fluid in the tires instead of purchasing a set of used wheel weights. tires were meant to be filled with air, not fluid. this isnt the first time i have ever had to deal with this. i once owned a bolens ride-a-matic about 10 years ago, same thing. its a nasty thing to do.
since i have owned this machine i have had to fix everything that he "fixed". he literally spent no money maintaining this machine. i can understand being on a budget but the corners he cut, downright annoying.
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