Wheel weights or liquid filled tire tubes?

[Jeff in Pa]

Yes

Loaded tires, wheel weights and chains will work the best.

[OffTime]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Yes, water is 8.3. But straight ethylene glycol is about 9.3 lbs. SO, no way a 50/50 mix would be over 9.3lbs/gal. CaCL2 is listed at 11.86lbs/gal.

We ran loaded tires on our farm tractor their whole life. Put several sets of tires on, never had a rusted rim as long as the tubes didn't leak. It only rusts from the inside out if it leaks. Most of the new farm tractors don't even use tubes. As long as the CaCl2 is over the rim, it won't rust. BTDT.

Because the molecules of water and ethylene glycol have different size molecules, the molecules fit between each other. This makes a denser mixture than either straight water or straight ethylene glycol. If you get exactly .5 gal water and exactly .5 gal antifreeze, you end up with less than 1 gal mix. In order to get 1 gallon of 50/50 mix, you have to have more than half gal water and more than half gal ethylene glycol. So yes, 50/50 mix is heavier than straight ethylene glycol.

As to the rims rusting out, I can see that if the rim never is in contact with air that it might not rust out. Of course tubes would fix that problem, but most people around here run tubeless and wouldn't run full enough to be over the rim. How many rims have I seen rust from the inside out and the outside looks new?

There is a product called Rim Guard that is all natural and non corrosive that is about 10.7 lbs per gallon. I understand it is a by-product of sugar beet processing. It isn't quite as budget friendly at $3.50 per gallon (give or take).

[olds45512]

Originally Posted by OffTime

Because the molecules of water and ethylene glycol have different size molecules, the molecules fit between each other. This makes a denser mixture than either straight water or straight ethylene glycol. If you get exactly .5 gal water and exactly .5 gal antifreeze, you end up with less than 1 gal mix. In order to get 1 gallon of 50/50 mix, you have to have more than half gal water and more than half gal ethylene glycol. So yes, 50/50 mix is heavier than straight ethylene glycol.

As to the rims rusting out, I can see that if the rim never is in contact with air that it might not rust out. Of course tubes would fix that problem, but most people around here run tubeless and wouldn't run full enough to be over the rim. How many rims have I seen rust from the inside out and the outside looks new?

There is a product called Rim Guard that is all natural and non corrosive that is about 10.7 lbs per gallon. I understand it is a by-product of sugar beet processing. It isn't quite as budget friendly at $3.50 per gallon (give or take).

Rim guard aka beet juice is nice but its attracts bees real bad, I once saw a tractor that was seeping from the valve stem a little and the rim was covered in bees