what's best way to patch a tire with a screw in it

you have 9,500 posts on a traditional hot rod web site, and you dont know how to use a tire plug kit ?........... YER KILLIN ME SMALLS......

 

makes me look like some sort of goofball when you say it that way.

 

That's what I do, works every time.

 

just couldnt resist......Vic

 

Yes it does

I keep a kit in the car/truck at all times. Even the cheap kits work if you clean things right. Buy a larger tube/can of glue. You do not get enough in the kits and it likes to dry up after the first use.

 

While out of town with my wife's car, I picked up a sheet metal screw in one of the tire treads. It still held air, so I drove to a nearby tire shop to get it plugged. I got the sales pitch that they did not use tire plugs, but dismount the tire and use the superior patch repair. That entailed sitting around for 90 minutes until they got around to fixing my tire. Jump ahead a few months and the car is ready for a new set of tires. I'm in the customer area at another shop, waiting for the installation and balancing to be done. I get a call to the service bay by the manager, who shows me the tire that had previously been repaired. When the first shop reinstalled the wheel, they cross-threaded two of the lug nuts and nearly twisted off the wheel studs.

If I had been able to have the tire plugged, I would have been back on the road in about 10 minutes and later, I would have been money ahead with the cash I would have saved by not having to repair the brake rotor. I've had plug repairs on a number of tires over the years, and never had a problem.

 

Option 2, buy a new tire?

 

Carla pulled up to the house last night and heard a hissing. picked up something not to far from home. 5 minutes with the plug kit and it is good to go. I will admit my old kit got ****tered so I made up a new one and put it in my road box.

 

If it is tubless just put a plug in it. Get the plugs for radial tires the rubber plugs don't work worth a flip.

 

When I worked in the Firestone company store in Waco Tx in the early 70's we pulled the tire and put a hot patch in it because it worked and because the retread shop wouldn't give us credit for tires that had been plugged when we sent them in.

The tire shop I deal with still patches tires and I've never had a problem with one that they patched. I've patched tires and plugged tires and if you do it right I don't see a lot of difference performance wise.

 

I carry a plug kit in all my vehicles, I can plug on on the car faster than you can change the tire in most cases. I am not real happy with the local tire shops, rather make my own repairs.

 

i had a tire patched when on vacation...30$ at NTB...........kinda high i thought

 

I have had truck tires plugged then patched from the inside, kind of belt & suspenders but it worked ok.

 

If you've ever worked construction, screws and nails in your tires are a way of life.
I can't tell you how many plugs were put in my tires over the years. Never had one issue with any of them. Theses were radials and constantly ran overloaded. Trailer tires, dually load range E, pickups with D tires, help had pickups with car tires, and cars with regular old car tires. However none over ten years old.

Most of the time, the kits you buy at the parts store are junk. Get a service station or independent tire shop to get you the pro kit.

 

It may be because when radials get to be 10 or more years old, they do funny things. Just last year I had one get a big bulge in it that made my beater pull to the right like nobody's business, wires were starting to poke out of it, and before that I found a tire that had come on the previous beater, which had been sitting on it's side in storage, had literally just blown up through the tread. Went off like a gunshot. I had another tire I put on that beater that was a spare in a junker and looked like new - it just came apart going down the road. I wouldn't putz with 10+ year old radials either.

 

What Rusty said.

I am the custodian of a Packard, and it had a set of radials on it that were.. I forget now but probably about 10 years old and with, I dunno, 100 miles on them?

Well one spring day I open the garage where she sleeps and the tread had just ripped off of one of them, still inflated, but the tread had peeled right off the casing.

Now it's got Coker Cl***ics on it if memory serves.

 

I used five plugs in a forklift once...in one hole (rebar)......worked good

 

I fix rips in the sidewalls of my Legends Race Car tires by sewing the rip closed with .45" thread and a needle. I then seal the inside and outside of the repair with Shoe Goo. The American Racer tires are $100.00 a piece, and I have a couple with three repairs on each one.

 

we used to pull out the nail and run a dry wall screw in them they held air till we had time to get them fixed. one rainy day we had 17 screws in one tire

 

It depends how big the hole is---if you can stick a pencil through it, it's too big. Otherwise i use patches on the inside. Or use a tube. i've had no problems with either method. The only problem is that it seems to be getting more difficult to find appropriate sized tubes and tube quality seems to be lacking these days.

The other thing is that if the tire is 10 yrs old......... a tire can look ok but................

Might just think about getting a new tire........

 

"Monkey Grip" plugs have worked well for me over the years.

FWIW, despite what anyone says about having keep track of rotation direction with the newer radials I seem to have much better luck when I do while swapping used tires around on rims. Almost all the bulges/thrown belts I've had have followed not knowing which direction a used tire had rotated or not keeping track of my own used inventory.

 

http://youtu.be/Xq3dDoYRlQg

 

being a pipe fitter, i use to do the same thing except i'd use teflon tape, lasts long time... lol ticking goes away when the head wears flat... lolol

 

Remember what he did to his tires on "the fastest Indian..."

 

there's a stop leak product on sale at some heavy equipment parts houses and maybe even at Pep Boys or Walmart...it comes in different sized bottles and is green in color...some call it gorilla snot...you deflate the tire, remove the valve stem, squirt this stuff into the tire, and re-inflate....makes screw and nail punctures a thing of the past...you might want to check this stuff out....it stays in your tires year round and doesn't freeze in cold weather.

 

i've been wondering what that does to the balance of the tire.

 

^ that, x2. When I worked at the local service station, the plugs we used were gooey and sticky as fly-paper. The garbage that you find on the shelves at Pep Boys is pure rubbish. Find a pro supply outfit and buy the good plugs and the reamer/install tool and you'll be fine.

 

contact cement doesn't require a gooey surface to adhere to.

 

Use that on my garden tractor tires. They simply leak through age cracks from being in the sun. I'm usually very skeptical of these things but it works brilliantly so I highly recommend it now.

 

i take it off the rim and patch from the inside. then i put it on the rear axle.