Our neighbors let my wife graze her horses there as long as we maintain it. Yesterday I was mowing and had about two passes left to make when I looked down and had a horseshoe stuck to the right front tire. I shut down, pulled it off, knowing I'd soon have a flat. Looked on the other side, and must have run over the same shoe on the previous pass. So now it's 5:30 PM and I have two flat front tires. I'll get them fixed, but wondered if Slime or something similar has worked for others to seal the pinhole punctures that nails and thorns can make.
Thanks, Bob
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It will seal the holes but I understand that some of those compounds can be hard on the rims over time.
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HI RJ
I've had good luck with slime. I used to work in a landfill and always carryed a plug kit. Slime does not work well very small holes like a crack but does good on nail holes. I ran it in my truck tires and it did not throw off my ballance. Also the rear tube on the cub would leak down over 3-4 days I put slime in and haven't had to put air in for over a year now and I never found where it was comming from.
Good luck Billy
I've had good luck with slime. I used to work in a landfill and always carryed a plug kit. Slime does not work well very small holes like a crack but does good on nail holes. I ran it in my truck tires and it did not throw off my ballance. Also the rear tube on the cub would leak down over 3-4 days I put slime in and haven't had to put air in for over a year now and I never found where it was comming from.
Good luck Billy
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I have no idea but those small fronts are a bear with out a tire machine. The couple of times i did them my self made me take them out ever since. Worst part with thorns is did you get it all out.
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beaconlight wrote:I have no idea but those small fronts are a bear with out a tire machine. The couple of times i did them my self made me take them out ever since. Worst part with thorns is did you get it all out.
Bill
I wasn't pleased with one of the rims I was going to send with Shorty for painting (it was rusted around the valve stem hole). This morning I pulled a wheel from a derilict and swapped its' tire to the reject rim and put it back on the derilict. I didn't bother to dig out the tire machine but it wasn't a bad job with irons. I didn't even use the bead breaker, but broke the bead in my woodworking vise.
Mounting tires isn't difficult if you cooperate with them and can keep from fighting.
Now the bare rim is in the tank getting stripped.
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I've always had good luck with Green Slime. Because of the increased cost of the slime I try to plug it or patch it if I can. But in tough times or difficult jobs, I use it without any problems. I had a dented front rim on my backhoe and you could hear the air leaking out. I put 2-3 bottles in the valve stem, filled it with air and turned the wheel by hand. The slime started oozing out of the bad places in the rim for several seconds and suddenly stopped leaking. That was 2 years ago, and the rim is still in place. About tire mounting, I bought a cheap tire mount on sale at Harbor Freight for $37 a few years ago, and it works pretty good. I think the same item is on sale now. The important thing is to be sure to anchor it to the ground. I used anchor bolts in concrete to hold it down. Larry
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I have a thorn problem, honey locust.
I use a NAPA product that has provided excellent results. This product will seal 1/4 inch punctures in tube type tires. The repairs are permanent. Once installed I have not had any further flats. $8.?? container seals one tire.
The NAPA product is white in color. I don't know the exact product name.
Eugene
I use a NAPA product that has provided excellent results. This product will seal 1/4 inch punctures in tube type tires. The repairs are permanent. Once installed I have not had any further flats. $8.?? container seals one tire.
The NAPA product is white in color. I don't know the exact product name.
Eugene
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It comes in 2 different forms. One is for tube tires and the other is for tubeless. Be shure you get the right one for your particular application.
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