Where can I find 3.85X20 tires for my JD?
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Coker or Universal, both have similar product lines. I like Universal myself, because I was friends with Ann Klein before she passed on.
If you want, I can give you the exact model tire I run on my '27 JD. They have been great. More than 2000 miles on them and they are still perfect.
Cheers,
Sirhr
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Wyatt:
are both of your rims clincher style? I have a '26 JD and both rims are the same 20" clincher running the coker 3.85 x 20. I think 19" are usually drop center style rims?Dan Margolien
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Now, you're sounding like it's a clincher rim (too big for 18, too small for 19 drop center tires). If the rim is one continuous surface from one edge to the other, and both edges of the rim turn almost 180º back inward, towards the center of the rim, it's a clincher. "Drop Center" rims have all the spokes entering a semicircular "ridge" (the "drop") all-the-way-around, centered in the rim.
Stock for your bike two 3.85x20 clincher tires. Clincher tires have a groove all the way around that intersects each side of the rims. and they're flexible, even "stretchy." Drop Center tires are held on by their "bead," often a steel cable embedded inside of each edge.
Clincher tires were all-but-unobtainable for a couple of decades (they went out rather suddenly about 1929-30), when drop center tires, easier to install and considered safer, were introduced to general motoring. Since then, many, many old clincher-rimmed bikes were converted by lacing on drop center rims, so without pics, all we can say is, 'It could be either!"
Hope this helps you in some little way to identify what you're dealing with, Wyatt. Go to Coker's website, check out the photos. You'll see both drop-center and clincher tires mounted to their respective rims.Last edited by Sargehere; 11-28-2012, 08:49 PM.
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Maybe this will help ya, Wyatt
This ACE has clincher rims:
This '40 Servicar has drop-center rims:
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