Re: Fix-A-Flat use on Farm Tires?

Posted by Ken McWilliams on December 03, 2000 at 17:41:28 from (64.12.102.37):

In Reply to: Fix-A-Flat use on Farm Tires? posted by TMAC on December 02, 2000 at 11:04:11:

TMAC,

I've used a liquid sealer from both Tractor Supply and Quality Farm and Fleet. It has sealed every tire that I tried it on except a tire on a transport disc that I hit spike on a rotary hoe and made a giant hole in it.

I usually buy it in gallon jugs that have a hand pump in it. I pumped it into a front tractor tire once that had a large framing 16 or 20 penny nail in it. After pumping in about a pint and reinflating, I pulled the nail and it began hissing out the hole. I rolled the tractor one tire revolution and the hissing immediately stop. It blew a few "whiskers" or "worms" out of the hole and never leaked again.

I had another tractor that I continually was patching the front tires because I mowed where some thorn trees were. Over about 15 years I had taken the tires off so many times that the bead around the tire was fuzzy. I pumped in some tire sealer and never had another leak.

Fixing flats caused by thorns is very difficult, because thorns will break off and after fixing a flat and reinflating, the thorn stub if not removed or not found will re-puncture the tube.

The tire sealer is a latex rubber emulsion. We call it "snot" because it's lumpy and about the consistency of snot.

If your tires don't have water in them, I strongly recommend using the tire sealer providing the hole is not large as I described above.

Every tire on the farm is a candidate for the tire sealer around here. I've used it on tubeless riding mower tires that leaked around the beads. My mower would leak down over winter and when mowing season came I would have to take the air tank out to the barn and try to re-seal the beads without using all of the air in the portable tank. NOT ANY MORE! When I put in the sealer I took the wheels off the mower and laid them on each side so the sealant would get up to the beads. No more leaks.

Don't use the sealant on highway tires because you can re-balance them.

I've used this sealant for about 10 years.

Ken McWilliams
Dayton, OH

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