Tubless tires can be fixed on the car using the same materials that the
garages use. A kit will run about $5.00 and fix 3 tires.You can get them
at any parts store.Before you buy a kit take a look at what the shops use,
you may find that the cheaper kit doesn't have as fat plugs as the better
kit. A portable compressor may work but I have always used a hand pump on
the road.Another item to add to the emergency kit thread.
...Art
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Editors, Molecular Vision wrote:
> I wonder about using this stuff with wire wheels (though I don't recall if
> the original poster has wire wheels). My limited experience is that you're
> just as likely to get a puncture from spoke ends as you are from road
> debris. This would put the puncture on the inner radius of the tube. My
> _vast_ experience with the spray goo and several VWs is that the goo
> squirts in as a liquid. You must rotate the tires as the goo goes in to get
> best coverage (hence, you still need a jack, tho you could roll the car as
> the tire slowly fills). The _outer_ radius of the tire, which is where the
> puncture usually resides on a tubeless tire, is what gets coated. The
> pressure provided by the can forces the goo into the puncture and
> eventually closes it. I could be very wrong about this, but I'm guessing
> that the inner radius gets minimum goo.
>
> As for going right out to get the puncture fixed, I never did (I do NOT
> recommend this, though). Crazy I know, but I kept 6 gooed tires just fine
> through 2 years of college and another 2 in grad school (three cars). At
> one time, every tire on the road and the spare were gooed. No gooed tire
> ever sprung a leak again, but then, God protects idiots.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> >>Bill Eastman wrote:
> >>> The main ingredient is a tire sealer/inflator so that I don't
> >>> have to carry the spare, jack, lug wrench, etc.
> >
> >Trevor Boicey commented:
> >> This sealer inflator stuff only works on punctures. It's
> >
> >
> >And the puncture size is limited, obviously. Also, read the can of
> >the sealer/inflator carefully. Some instruct not to drive on the
> >injected tire indefinitely but to have it "properly" repaired ASAP.
> >Also, inform the guy fixing the flat that you have injected the tire
> >with the substance - I've seen the stuff come spewing out of the air
> >valve when opened.
> >
> >
> >Mike Lambdin
>
>
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