A boring article on Nitrogen in tires

Cliff notes?



got it...It doesn't change pressure with temperature.

I read it. Doesn't seem too interesting...

I read the first couple pages and lost interest in reading any more. Regular ol' air is good enough for me. It's been used in tires for a hundred years or more. Yeah, you've got to check it now and then but there's many other things we should be checking on our vehicles too. The best thing is using regular air I can do it myself rather than having to go somewhere, wait in line, and have a specialist do it for me.



Now, maybe on my wheelbarrow I might be interested in filling the tires with bigger molecules. That tire is always flat when I need it. What element has molecules bigger than a 1/4"? 😂

what I thought was interesting is that your average tire shop is pushing nitro, but probaly doesn't have the right PSI for it given it won't expand with temp.



The skid-pad tests for determining the "correct" pressure sounded fun.



I guess I was just bored at lunch it it was more interesting than the other stuff I'd been working on until then.

OK, I fixed the title.

I think nitrogen for tires is just a solution looking for a problem to solve.

"FAM" wrote: I read the first couple pages and lost interest in reading any more. Regular ol' air is good enough for me. It's been used in tires for a hundred years or more. Yeah, you've got to check it now and then but there's many other things we should be checking on our vehicles too. The best thing is using regular air I can do it myself rather than having to go somewhere, wait in line, and have a specialist do it for me.

Now, maybe on my wheelbarrow I might be interested in filling the tires with bigger molecules. That tire is always flat when I need it. What element has molecules bigger than a 1/4"? 😂

I got one of those puncture proof wheel barrow tires. It doesn't require air so it never needs to be filled up.

"BKGM Jeepers" wrote: [quote="FAM"]I read the first couple pages and lost interest in reading any more. Regular ol' air is good enough for me. It's been used in tires for a hundred years or more. Yeah, you've got to check it now and then but there's many other things we should be checking on our vehicles too. The best thing is using regular air I can do it myself rather than having to go somewhere, wait in line, and have a specialist do it for me.

Now, maybe on my wheelbarrow I might be interested in filling the tires with bigger molecules. That tire is always flat when I need it. What element has molecules bigger than a 1/4"? 😂

I got one of those puncture proof wheel barrow tires. It doesn't require air so it never needs to be filled up.

Is that a mtr tire on that barrow? 😂

Interesting. I have nitrogen in the Ford because I got a "deal" at the tire shop. I wonder how big a deal the lack of pressure change in a bigger (33) higher pressure, tire used for heavier duty is?

I wonder if I could rig my York compressor to pump out Nitrogen?

"JohnDF" wrote: I wonder if I could rig my York compressor to pump out Nitrogen?

Only thing your pumping out is sulfur from ur 😂

"Bender" wrote: Interesting. I have nitrogen in the Ford because I got a "deal" at the tire shop. I wonder how big a deal the lack of pressure change in a bigger (33) higher pressure, tire used for heavier duty is?

at least one person thought it was interesting 😀



so are you going to do the skid pad test with the 3/4 ton?

"Dan-H" wrote: [quote="Bender"]Interesting. I have nitrogen in the Ford because I got a "deal" at the tire shop. I wonder how big a deal the lack of pressure change in a bigger (33) higher pressure, tire used for heavier duty is?

at least one person thought it was interesting 😀



so are you going to do the skid pad test with the 3/4 ton?

It's a 1 ton. 😏 Tomorrow, I'm planning to hook up a trailer to it and load both with wood. I'll let you know how it goes.

Before I loaded it today I checked all 4 nitrogen filled tires on the truck. The truck sits for long periods of time and I'm not real good at keeping an eye on the pressure. I always check before a big load. The last big load I can remember was probably May of last year. One tire was full at 65 psi. Two were in the mid 40s and one was in the upper 30s. I filled them with air. 😳 Moral of the story? Nitrogen doesn't mean you can neglect checking your tire pressure!