Hello Everyone
I have an older Toro 7/24 that I would like to upgrade the tires on. Right now I just snow blow a path around my house. I keep the guides up as high as they will go. I have a path that has rocks on in and if I go any lower I shoot them all over. Anyways the snow blower has what I believe to be the stock tires. Between keep the guides up and sometimes the snow blower tending to ride up as I snow blow it gets stuck sometimes. I have to lean it back and muscle it around to free it.
I feel like if I upgrade the tire to a more modern tread (snow hog or Xtrac) and go up in size my traction will improve. I hope the larger size will let the tires continue to dig before the belly of the machine hits the snow. The current size on the tire is 13 x 4 -6 which as I understand it is 13 inch OD, 4 inches wide on a 6 inch rim. I see they make a snow hog in a 15 x 5 -6. I have plenty of room on the snow blower both height and width wise but I am a little worried about actually getting that wide of a tire on the original rims.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I expect trouble getting the bead to take hold on the stock rim?
Is going up in tire size a bad idea for some reason I am not considering?
Thanks so much for the help!
I have an older Toro 7/24 that I would like to upgrade the tires on. Right now I just snow blow a path around my house. I keep the guides up as high as they will go. I have a path that has rocks on in and if I go any lower I shoot them all over. Anyways the snow blower has what I believe to be the stock tires. Between keep the guides up and sometimes the snow blower tending to ride up as I snow blow it gets stuck sometimes. I have to lean it back and muscle it around to free it.
I feel like if I upgrade the tire to a more modern tread (snow hog or Xtrac) and go up in size my traction will improve. I hope the larger size will let the tires continue to dig before the belly of the machine hits the snow. The current size on the tire is 13 x 4 -6 which as I understand it is 13 inch OD, 4 inches wide on a 6 inch rim. I see they make a snow hog in a 15 x 5 -6. I have plenty of room on the snow blower both height and width wise but I am a little worried about actually getting that wide of a tire on the original rims.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I expect trouble getting the bead to take hold on the stock rim?
Is going up in tire size a bad idea for some reason I am not considering?
Thanks so much for the help!