Carlisle X Trac ATV Bias Tire - 4.80-8 2

The only thing I understand it the discrimination said non winter. But they are for a snowblower.

Very rugged tire of the garden tool line. They are a pain to remove old and install new. But don't worry. Watch a could YouTube videos and with patience, hefty screw drivers, small crowbar and a soup solution and a rag. After you get it on. You have to use a rope around the circumference to compress the tire to have it get up along the sides to hold the air in.

I pressed the wrong button and did not finish my tire, and tub instruction! The last part after you get your first tire bed on, and your tube inside covered with soapy water, and the tube valve though the hole clamped with small vase grips. Spray more soapy water around the second bead. This is the important part. Clamp a larger Vice grip on the rim after you push the second bead on as far and deep on the rim as you can. The Vice grip keeps the left side of the bead from following you around trying to get the tire on! You go nuts without putting the Vice grips on the other side of the bead. Push the tire as far down and to the inside of rim as you can, and work the second side of the bead around with the dull screw driver, and don’t go nuts, and pinch a hole in your expensive brass valve stem tube. It should go on fairly easy. Don’t go crazy on to much air in the tub. Your tires are only 20 pounds of pressure. If everything is soaped up good the beads should set with out pop. If bead is not quite on the rim yet. Bounce it on the floor on the side that is not seated. Good luck! Again do not buy the cheap tubs! Get the good ones with the brass stems. Thank you for your time.

This review is for the Carlisle X Trac ATV Bias Tire - 4.80-8 2 tires: I purchased these to replace the original 30-ish year old tires on an Ariens ST824 snow blower that I inherited from a family member. Must say I'm very happy with them, they fit perfectly and work great. The quality and build seems very good. I've had them on for about a month and have used the snowblower following two pretty good snowfalls and so far I'm very happy.The local Ariens dealer wanted $200 just for a pair of factory tires, not including install. Seemed like this was a "go away" quote as they were not overly helpful in general. So I decided to give it a shot and do it myself. After few beers and about 847 YouTube videos I went to work. I will say it was quite a chore but this had nothing to do with the tires - it was purely my inexperience and lack of proper tools. After wrestling with them for a couple hours, I just could not get the beads set so I opted to put tubes in. That took all of 20 minutes and it worked like a charm. Wiped a little soapy water on the rims and the beads slid into right place as they aired up.Great tires at a great price.

These are identical to the factor tires that came on the Husqvarna snow blower I was given. Except that those were old and had many small cracks on the sidewalls and consequently wouldn't hold air. With tire spoons I have for motorcycle tires I was able to dismount the old tires and mount these, but despite several YouTube videos I was not able to get the beads to seat, after trying for quite a time. I think my air compressor may be too wimpy. I took them to a tire shop which was able to get them to seat, and they didn't even charge me (yay Barnsley Tire in Boulder CO!). They work well - the lugs are pretty deep so they get fine traction in the snow, no tire chains needed. I am a happy blower of snow!