Leaky tubeless tire fix

If I was going to take the wheel Off and break the beads down, I think I would have a tube standing by ready to install.

Gary wrote: If I was going to take the wheel Off and break the beads down, I think I would have a tube standing by ready to install.   Fix it right and be done - not just a Band-Aid fix.   Gary

hate to burst your bubble but you may as well consider that tire junk if you put oilbased paint in there. the oil will rot your tire out. it makes it very very soft and eventually it will fall apart. usually if it were me i would spend the little extra time and money and fix it right.

bobkyllo wrote: hate to burst your bubble but you may as well consider that tire junk if you put oilbased paint in there. the oil will rot your tire out. it makes it very very soft and eventually it will fall apart. usually if it were me i would spend the little extra time and money and fix it right.

Good job Nella! i ike your thinking! i also had a leaky wheel barrow tire, i used that spray foam in it, the nozzel fit right down into the valve stem, i just kept squirting it in, and it hasn't gone flat since! use what ya gots!

Bought a new wheel barrow rim, tire with tube and fully inflated at Lowe's last week for $21. Would of bought just a tube, but for a few more bucks bought this instead.

I just recently fix a leaking tire on the 3 point hay rake. Pumped it up some and drilled a hole right thru the middle of the tread, opposite of the valve stem. Then I pulled the core and spray 2 cans of expanding foam in the valve stem. It filled the tube and started coming out the hole. Let the rake set with no weight on the wheel for a day, and I'll never have to touch it again in my lifetime.
 2 cans of foam cost less than a new tube and the tire has enough tread for 30 years of raking.


Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 24 Jun 2017 at 7:44pm

I just installed tubes into the rears of a Cub Cadet(aka MTD) rider as sidewalls were leaky.
There was NO way I could get the tire/rim off the axle, 'rust welded' on , sigh. So, I raised up a side for better access and then broke the outside bead with a 10" C-clamp. It was actually easy to slide the tube in and I remembered to put the valve stem tool on BEFORE pushing the rest of the tube in. Once  all in, inflated to 20PSI in 3 steps, just to allow tube to 'adjust' itself to the tire. That was 4 days ago, still holding air!
One trick I learned with good tubeless tires but bad bead...is to use some spray 'belt dressing' on the rubber bead. I'm 4 for 4 on perfect sealing of the rim.

Jay

Tom do you know of a grease that would not damage tires??? I ask because there is a local tire store that used grease to help seat beads on tubeless tires. For a number of reasons have not used there services in 10 years,so they may not do that anymore. 

OLF uses tireject....I wonder if it would work on a 4 rib 10-16 front tractor tire I have with stubble damage? Came out of the field last night and it was low, then went plumb flat in less than a minute. Tried airing it up but it was leaking out about as fast as I put it in right along one of the ribs.

Ray54 wrote: Tom do you know of a grease that would not damage tires??? I ask because there is a local tire store that used grease to help seat beads on tubeless tires. For a number of reasons have not used there services in 10 years,so they may not do that anymore.

Ray I do not know of a grease that will not damage tires. They make several brands of paste tire mounting compound, Murpheys is one of them. Anything that has oil or grease in it will destroy tires. I have been out on the road with semi steer tires, out on the road and in the field with tractor and combine tires simply because people used grease or motor oil to mount them. It is a real pain when you have to hook two loaded grain trucks to the back of a darn JD combine that is sitting nose down on a steep hill on a gravel road after dark because some clown used grease to mount the tire. That's a lot of time just to clean off the messey rim, run back to town grab a new 30.5x32 tire and make the trip back, mount it and get them going. That 1 took most of the night. That was only 1 of many. Oh they brought the combine to the shop the next day and we mounted a new tire on the other side. That tire was destroyed too. I have seen the same thing with kids mounting 12x16.5 tires on white spoke rims. They brought the tires to us for adjustment. The dealer where they bought them told them just what they did and could not help them. We couldn't help them either, but did clean up the mess and mount up 4 new mudder's. Dish soap ain't slick enough to mount tires been there tried it.

If for nothing else, you can get Ru Glyde at most auto parts stores.