Can't Find Tire Leak

[JimP2014]

I'm not sure if you're still having a problem but I have a lt2000 the rear tire kept going flat and like little engine mentioned I tried that slime stuff and that did not work but what I did find that works and is still working because it's still holding air is a product called road instant flat fix something like that but I bought it on the big a let's call it.

So I wasted the 15 bucks on the slime stuff but for 13 bucks I got this other product

 

[JimP2014]

I'm not sure if you're still having a problem but I have a lt2000 the rear tire kept going flat and like little engine mentioned I tried that slime stuff and that did not work but what I did find that works and is still working because it's still holding air is a product called road instant flat fix something like that but I bought it on the big a let's call it.

So I wasted the 15 bucks on the slime stuff but for 13 bucks I got this other product

 

[Tiger Small Engine]

Yes but that happens even with new pneumatic tires. I got a neighbor that I installed two new tires and within a week had three flats. It is cheaper to patch inner tubes than buy new tires. Once he got rid of the thorn sources no more flats.

But I did something along during the time and that is the 24 x 10.00 requires a tube smaller than the one Carlisle says goes in that size tire as several other customer had tube related problems.

When you get a puncture in a tire with no inner tube, you can simply plug it. With a tire that has an inner tube and gets a puncture, you end up putting in a plug. Much more time and cost saving to plug vs. putting in tube.

Fix A Flat usually doesn’t work well and often rusts out the wheel long term. So then you have to clean and prep wheel once the tire goes flat to accept a tire to hold air right.

I fix a fair amount of tires on mowers. Tire plugs, bead sealer, and good tire sealant is usually the answer, most of the time in that order.

 

[StarTech]

Well there is one problem with tire plugs. Most of you are using the automotive string type. These don't seal in the long term due to the automotive type are meant to be cured by the road heat generated while the vehicle is moving. Lawnmower tires just don't heat up to cure these plugs.

Now there are rubber type mushroom plugs that much better and are meant for off road use.

Another problem with string plugs is that if you do later want to install an inner tube, they will wear a hole in the tube due to ball of string inside the tire. Now rubber mushroom plugs are less likely to do this.

And a hint of patching inner tubes. Use some talc powder or similar dusting powder on the patch area after installing the patch. This is keep the patch area from sticking to the tire inner liner as tubes must be free to move around a little.

Another hint here is not using the 24x12-12 tubes in the 24x12-12 tires. You use 23x10.50-12 tubes. The problem of the 24x12-12 tubes in the 24x12-12 is the tubes are too big for the tires. Once you use the 24x12-12 tubes, they will fold and rub holes in themselves. When you pull these tubes and air them up they look a pair of pointed breasts with heavy cleavage. It is at this cleavage point where they wear holes and are not patch-able. I have well test the smaller tube in these 24x12-12 tires.

 

[ILENGINE]

Never had any issues with using the string rubberized window sealing sticky strips that are commonly used for tire plugs. And if I later go back to install a tube just pull all the plugs out and put in the tube.

 

[StarTech]

Never had any issues with using the string rubberized window sealing sticky strips that are commonly used for tire plugs. And if I later go back to install a tube just pull all the plugs out and put in the tube.

Unless you boot those areas you just asking an easy puncture. Some tires I have tubed has so many plugs in the same hole that the inner tube just sticks out when I remove the plugs.

Or least that is the case with punctures from some of the sage grasses and other tough weeds. Heck even I get punctures myself from those things and it is not the tires that getting punctured either.

 

[GrumpyCat]

I'm not sure if you're still having a problem but I have a lt2000 the rear tire kept going flat and like little engine mentioned I tried that slime stuff and that did not work but what I did find that works and is still working because it's still holding air is a product called road instant flat fix something like that but I bought it on the big a let's call it.

So I wasted the 15 bucks on the slime stuff but for 13 bucks I got this other product

You put the other product in a tire that already had Slime in it?

 

[sgkent]

maybe get one of those cheap plastic storage containers, or empty one you have stuff in for a couple days, fill it with water, and use that to look for the leak.

 

[JimP2014]

You put the other product in a tire that already had Slime in it?

You are correct I used the slime product and that did not work and then I used that other product called road instant fixes flat tire.

And I thought about this after I made my original post and I was wondering if the slime product although it did not work acted as a primer in some way and helped the second product I used to truly stop air coming out of the tire and in the mowing season of say 2023 I can't recall a problem at all with a tire and then in the mowing season of 2024 is when that tire had a problem. Right now the air temperature outside is about 18° f and it's been very cold for several days in a row and I was thinking of going out in the next couple days and checking the tire pressure on that tire to see what it is.

Jim

 

[Tiger Small Engine]

Never had any issues with using the string rubberized window sealing sticky strips that are commonly used for tire plugs. And if I later go back to install a tube just pull all the plugs out and put in the tube.

I have no come backs on tires I repair by putting in string plugs.

The amount of time it takes to remove a tire, break the bead, install a tube, and order or pick up the tube, and cost of tube, has all got to be accounted for and charged to the customer. By the time you add it up, you can almost buy a tire online new and install it.