A search of this forum did not find the answer to my question. A while back, I mounted a tire on an orginal Cub wheel with a tube marked 4.80/4.00 x 12. The valve stem never aligned properly with the hole in the wheel and the tube seemed just too large. Just for information, I changed lots of tires with irons and hammer before the concept of tubeless tires was introduced. Have seen lots of wrinkled tubes. Today I demounted a really bad tire "Wards Riverside" and the tube was also Wards Riverside- trademarks of the old Montgomery Ward Company. The tube is 4.00 x 12 B-2 and perhaps reusable. So where does one get tubes that really are suitable for the Cub front wheels and tires?
In our long-ago poverty, we sometimes drove on what might be called "tireless tubes". Ever seen a Life magazine used for a boot?
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Busdriver you leave us guessing. Put your state on your profile or in your question and we will be better able to answer you. No sense sending you to a place in NY when you are in Oregon.
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I know you said you have changed a lot of tires, BUT by any chance does the tube need to be turned over. I had one one time I thought was right but I was in a hurry and had it turned over. Mike
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Bus Driver - every place I've checked I've only been able to find the 400 - 480 X 12's. Apparently they think that's all we need nowadays.
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Bus Driver, I too have only seen the 480-400 tube size of late. From your comments of Ward's Riverside, the life magazine for a "boot". I suspect that you too are a product of the Great depression or at least WW II, when things were rationed. I know a lot of old inner tubes were used to make inner liners for a pair of shoes that were worn through. That WW II rationing was something else, but we made do with a lot less and survived. I have heard of rags and sand packed into tires in order to get around. Probably very slow and not too far as gasoline was rationed also. Bill
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I think your best bet might be calling "Tucker Tire". I bought new tires from them that come with tubes but I dont remember the exact numbers on the tubes if I even looked. I also recently bought 2 rear tire tubes from them for less than the cost of 1 here locally.
I dealt with Guy named Jim Dalton at Tucker and they ship fast. You can contact him at [1-800-443-0802]
I dealt with Guy named Jim Dalton at Tucker and they ship fast. You can contact him at [1-800-443-0802]
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