1999 WeedEater Mowing Mower Build "Sodzilla"

I like the look of the Roper hood on it. I think it looks better than the stock WeedEater hood.

MatthewD wrote:

I like the look of the Roper hood on it. I think it looks better than the stock WeedEater hood.

Yeah so do I, thanks for the input!

Ordered the new front tires tonight! Says 1-2 day shipping.

Shweet. Should be a nice upgrade for sure.

What tires did you go with?

AllisKidD21 wrote:

Shweet. Should be a nice upgrade for sure.

Yes! I'm very excited!

muckmudd wrote:

What tires did you go with?

Basically 17" ags on 8" rims with bearings.

Wow. That's fast. And free shipping! LOL

Ugg, it changed.

That's fedex for ya

RichieRichOverdrive wrote:

That's fedex for ya

Yep. Well, I'm not going to complain, it's free 2 day shipping.

I can't even remember the last time i saw a fedex truck... they're not so common anymore.

Anyways, not to get off topic lol. Since they're going to be front tires, are you gonna run them backwards so you actually get traction?

Well, I see them more often on my security cams at my gate.

Yeah, probably not.  The turfs do a decent job of getting traction so I'm sure the ags won't be any worse.  Either, way the rims I'm mounting them on a semi-reversible (the only thing that isn't is the valve stem) so I can run them both ways to see which one is best.  We'll see.

So 1-2 day shipping means at least 3, maybe more?

FINALLY!!!!

So, once I saw them, I knew I had to get them mounted tonight.  I had one tube set aside for the tires, so I mounted one, which was a piece of cake, surprisingly.  Then I went scrambling around for another tube and found 3 more, 2 of which were the wrong size and the last one had a giant hole in it.  Then I found another tire the same size and tore it off the rim to get at the tire, and then mounted the second one which was easier than I thought, but a little harder than the first.




Steer beautifully, I love them.

I do have some toe I need to fix, before someone says something.

You must have been anxious to get them hahha. They look good. Do you have a link to the rims and the tires?

They match up with the ITP mud lites pretty well.  

Time for a new tie rod!

muckmudd wrote:

You must have been anxious to get them hahha. They look good. Do you have a link to the rims and the tires?

Thanks, yeah I was.  To the tires, yes, to the rims, no.

https://www.tires-easy.com/4.00-8/deestone-tires/d402-i-3/tirecode/DS5212

Be sure to change the quantity to 1, for some reason the website expects you want four lol.  $19.22 a piece.

The rims are rims from an old dump cart.  I bought them at Tractor Supply, and they came with these really crappy tires that were like paper thin, and barely holding together, and had some sort of elastic or something in the sidewalls instead of wire.  They lasted like a week, and I didn't even use them in that time.  The tubes were good, so I used the rims and tubes for this.  The rims have decent bearings in them and everything.  Each of those rim+"tire"+tube was $15.

Crazy_Carl wrote:

They match up with the ITP mud lites pretty well.  

Time for a new tie rod!

Yeah, I agree! They steer beautifully too.

Yep, fortunately, I have a spare.

Nice, thanks for the link. I will look around that website, it looks fairly cheap.

muckmudd wrote:

Nice, thanks for the link. I will look around that website, it looks fairly cheap.

Your welcome, yeah they are.

They look good! A bit small for my taste but I think they'll do well.

Oh, get some proper sealed bearings for those front rims. I had a set of those once and the bearings basically threw themselves apart after a few days of use.

Looking good W. Are those narrow rims pretty sturdy?

RichieRichOverdrive wrote:

They look good! A bit small for my taste but I think they'll do well.

Oh, get some proper sealed bearings for those front rims. I had a set of those once and the bearings basically threw themselves apart after a few days of use.

Oh?  I thought they were gae....
Okay, thanks.  I will.

MightyRaze wrote:

Looking good W.  Are those narrow rims pretty sturdy?

Thanks, yep, they are.  I hauled 600 pounds of rocks in a trailer supported by these rims once.

Got the toe mostly fixed.

Built this redneck flag pole out of an upside down deer feeder leg. 


Plan to fly a triple threat flag off the back.

How come the toe was out, is the tie rod bent or out of adjustment, etc?

Probably a single rod that bent. Sporting a different hood there?

AllisKidD21 wrote:

How come the toe was out, is the tie rod bent or out of adjustment, etc?

yalp, it bowed itself out into a V.

MightyRaze wrote:

Probably a single rod that bent.  Sporting a different hood there?

Yep, the original hood.  It looks a little better with these tires, oddly enough.