After having had my jockey wheel deflate a couple of times and not finding a suitable solution to the problem, finally had someone helpful finally explain how to solve my problem.
Apparently some of the expanding products to fill a tyre to make it a solid tyre can be more trouble than they are worth and not long lasting at all.
This week I had Bearcat Tyres in Archerfield convert it to a solid tyre for me. Cost less than $40 and saved me throwing a Ratchet Power Jockey Wheel away. Which was worth nearly a couple of hundred dollars I might add.
Think they normally do this for large industrial or mining tyres, but, hey, they were really helpful and were happy to do my six inch jockey wheel for me.
So if anyone has similar problem, don't despair, can be rectified professionally with a good outcome.
I was in Super Cheap Auto a couple of days ago getting a new pair of wipers for the Territory and nearly tripped over a bulk stack of Jockey wheels in an end stack.
They had those heavy duty ratchet ones with either solid or pneumatic tyres.
As it was more than 10 minutes ago i forget the prices but remember they were not that expensive.
I like the idea of fixing rather than replacing however.
I had a solid rubber ratchet wheel but it slipped on the grass so I bought a pneumatic one which worked a bit better but like KW's it deflated after a few weeks. I then found I could buy a heavy duty double thickness tube from a car tyre place - they go in builders barrows apparently as well and fixed the deflation problem. Sold that one eventually and bought a twin pneumatic wheel Mule which grips on grass even better but weighs an absolute tonne.
Regards
Haha, we used to double tyre our pushbike tyres when we were kids, for riding through the bush. We'd strip the wire rib off the edges of an old tyre, and cut about an inch out of the circumference, then slip this between the inner tube and the servicable bike tyre. Double thickness tyres, you could ride over broken glass and barbed wire and not get a flat.
