LiquiTube Tire Sealant - any opinions?

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inairam

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Yesterday I took some used Firestone tuff tires to a truck tire place for mounting on old style rims. The Goodyears were dry-rotted. It was the old style times like the ones I had to repair a few years ago. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=111660&hilit=rim+repair

There was a little dry rot near thee beed on the new to me tires and the place suggested " LiquiTube Tire Sealant " and go tubeless. I said I was not interested in the foam stuff they use on ATVs and the like. They said this is different and specifically for low-speed heavy equipment and not foam. I decided to try it. It was expensive, more than 2 x 24" tubes, but far less that 2 new Firestone turf tires.

I read some comments online and there were a lot of positive reviews about LiquiTube Tire Sealant. One was from someone with a piece of rebar in a $6K tire for a loader. The LiquiTube Tire Sealant worked for that with the rebar still in the tire.

link https://liquitube.com/

Anyone else try it?
 
I never did cause that stuff just makes things worse down the road! I use patches and boots in my damaged tires and keep the insides clean while fixin them. Just did a back tire on my 2444 industrial which is a 14.9 x 24 x full 6 ply tire. Big job but I did save the tube and tire with the patches. Mowed for 3 days in the waterways and roadsides at the farm and its still holding.
Got a couple on some of the mowers that are tubeless and wont hold air and gotta beat them off and patch them someday.
 
inairam":2aflv49g said:
There was a little dry rot near thee beed on the new to me tires and the place suggested " LiquiTube Tire Sealant " and go tubeless.
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I would run, not walk, away from any tire shop that suggested that. They're not pros, they're hucksters selling snake oil.
 
tst":21q2941k said:
temporary fix
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:Dito: Plus the sealer (fix a flat, slime, etc) leaves a really bad messy residue in the tire and on the rim that will have to be cleaned out before anything else can be done with the rim/tire. Not worth the effort. JMHO Stan
 
Some of that stuff is highly corrosive. I had used a brand name I don't remember and when it failed sometime afterward, the tire guy called me over for a look at what he had found. Yes, a mess but the wheel was also being consumed by corrosion. And, that's the point the tire guy wanted me to understand. Never used the stuff after that, but as a solution to being dead on the road, it could save the day.
 
I have used Berryman's and Flat Out for slow leaks and I have been successful with them both. I have implement tires on the front of the Fergie (that was a mistake) and it fixed a slow leak. I have blown out a really crappy front tubed tire on the 3020 5miles from home...put in Flat Out and actually had to Gorilla tape the whole outside of the tire and made it home. I put it in the fronts of all 7 tractors

I would not go tubeless on the old tractors
 
This is different from the other stuff I am familiar with. It looks as if it market is strictly slow-moving vehicles. It cleans up with water and stays in a liquid form until it fills a hole.

I think they are a repeatable place. The local fire company had an ambulance in there getting new shoes when I was there. they have 20 to 30 stores just on trucks and ag and off road equipment.

I was on TM site today to order a square bolt ( the 8th bolt would not tighten threads too far gone) The tubes are $45 each or 90 plus shipping for a pair and Amazon is 50 to 90 a pair. so the inner tubes are not cheap either.

I will try to remember to repost in about a year to see what I think about it. They are holding air and supporting the tractor at eh moment
 
radioguy41":wwmx1wlq said:
I would run, not walk, away from any tire shop that suggested that. They're not pros, they're hucksters selling snake oil.
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No, they understand that their customer is trying to work with a budget and are doing their best to provide the customer with a workable solution instead of being "crooked" and trying to "upsell" them with the correct solution...

LiquiTube is NOT "slime." It is an actual sealant that cures chemically. I've used the product for years and it is the real deal.

Tire sealants are standard practice in hazardous duty machines these days. Skidsteers, man lifts, wheel loaders... anything that has tires and works where there are lots of unseen tire hazards like nails.

The only thing I would not use it for is to compensate for a rotten carcass. Tires can look pretty ratty on the outside but they usually look like new inside. If the inside of the carcass is rotten, you're putting your thumb in a hole in the Titanic.
 
Matt Kirsch":polinh52 said:
radioguy41":polinh52 said:
The only thing I would not use it for is to compensate for a rotten carcass. Tires can look pretty ratty on the outside but they usually look like new inside. If the inside of the carcass is rotten, you're putting your thumb in a hole in the Titanic.
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They looked great on the inside and had low hours there were still the nubs on both.

Like you said, they told me a lot of customers use it as PM on new tires.
 
It makes the inside of your rim look like a child’s diaper with diarrhea……fix it the right way. Fix a flat is a bandaid for a gunshot wound that will never cure the damage just a temporary repair with a failure in the future.

NJ Farmer
 
True, but it gets me home across town so I can fix it properly....and I don't know how many thorn holes got plugged that I didn't know about.
Hey Matt- do you put LiquTube in before or after the puncture?
 
ajhbike":1ohc3om2 said:
True, but it gets me home across town so I can fix it properly....and I don't know how many thorn holes got plugged that I didn't know about.
Hey Matt- do you put LiquTube in before or after the puncture?
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My experience is always after, when I can't find a detectable leak.
 
ajhbike":r48k9ioh said:
I don't know how many thorn holes got plugged that I didn't know about.
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I use Slime in my front tires. Honey locusts. Slime sealed up 13 punctures. The 14th puncture is when I had to patched the inner tube.
 
NJ Farmer":323eisfb said:
Maybe you should just go with plain steel rims!! Sounds like your yard is like mowing a battlefield.
NJ Farmer
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Not so much anymore. Removed all of the honey locusts from the pasture. Have some back in the woods. Still get some sprouting up in the pasture which I spray and mow.
 
I have had good luck with Berryman's Tire Seal-R. Most parts stores can order it and its saved my front tires many times from thorns while bush hogging.
 
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