Green slime and tire mounting questions

chuckinnc

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I try to do all my tire work, but need alittle advise. First, does green slime really work on farm tractor tires. Is there a good DIY tire lube for
mounting and unmounting?
TSC is the only tractor store around here and they
don't list tire lube, local tire shops won't sell it
to anyone.
 
In all the years I have done tires both as a job and on my own ALL we ever used was simple cheap dish soap. Ya there is a stuff call Murphy's soap for tires that works well if you can find it and it is sort off grease looking but not a true grease and more of a thick soap
 
Yup I will agree on this. Add just a little water. Ivory liquid soap works well too.
Now for Slime. It is great stuff if you use it correctly. There are two types of it. One for tubeless tires and another for tube type. I use mostly the tubeless stuff. Also you need to use enough of it. Don't be cheep and use to little. The last is you need to drive the machine around for a few minutes so the Slime can do it"s thing. When I go to Harbor Freight I buy a bottle almost every time. Neighbors ask me "Do you have some" and I sell them the bottle sometimes. Did it just today for my neighbor's JD lawn tractor. 24oz bottle. Jeffcat
 
Yup I will agree on this. Add just a little water so it is nice and slippery. Ivory liquid soap works well too.
Now for Slime. It is great stuff if you use it correctly. There are two types of it. One for tubeless tires and another for tube type. I use mostly the tubeless stuff. Also you need to use enough of it. Don't be cheep and use to little. The last is you need to drive the machine around for a few minutes so the Slime can do it"s thing. When I go to Harbor Freight I buy a bottle almost every time. Neighbors ask me "Do you have some" and I sell them the bottle sometimes. Did it just today for my neighbor's JD lawn tractor. 24oz bottle. Jeffcat
 
I had a steer tire on my AC WD with a slow leak in the tube. I went to Walmart and bought a gallon of the slime for tube tires and put it in. That was two years ago and the tire has yet to leak down. I'm sold on the stuff. It was a lot quicker and easier that dismounting a tire and tube just to do a tube patch and put it back together.
 
Yeah , Murphy's Tire mounting compound is the expensive stuff. Myers Tire Supply has a house house brand called Phoenix that was about $30 for a 5 gallon pail. It is a thick product that you can pack in between the rim and tire bead to help seat tubeless tires. Myers has a branch in most major cities , just google them , they can ship UPs. They carry ever kind of product and tool for servicing tires...
 
Not a fan of slime for anything.

I use Rim Grease from Gemplers for lubricant and rust preventative when mounting/dismounting tires.

Rim Grease helps to prevent rust at the bead/rim interface which makes dismounting 10 years from now much easier.

Dean
 
Considering the quality of todays tires, I use a lot of Slime. My welding cart, the lawn carts, wheelbarrows, kids bikes, lawn mowers, garden tractors, some tractor fronts and even the occasional car or truck tire. These days sidewalls develop slow leaks in a couple years. If a couple bucks worth of Slime will get me another 5 years out of a tire...that's money in my pocket and one less headache. I know my mechanics all hate Slime and Fix a Flat, but they aren't paying for the tires now, are they? :D
 

A couple of years ago I needed a new tube for my bicycle, and the only ones I could find came with Slime in them.

Dusty
 
Goggle tire mounting lube and check Amazon. I just bought some recently. It comes in a small spray bottle if you are only going to do a few mountings.

I use green slime in all types of tires. They have types for tube and tubeless. Won"t do any good in calcium filled tires though. Works great in lawnmower tires and I"ve had pretty good sucess with street tire but follow the directions.
 
Our local Mills Fleet Farm has pouches of tire lube that mix with water. I have had just as much sucess with dishsoap.

Tried the green slime in ATV and lawn mower tires. Seemed to work okay in warm weather but the tires wouldn't hold air during winter. Anybody else experience that?
 
I use murphys oil soap. You cant buy the paste anymore but I just buy the liquid and leave the lid off and it thickens over time. Even in the liquid state it works good.
 
napa sells the tire lube soap in 1g jugs.

as mentioned.. can;t find the pail of tire grease ( soap ) anymore unfortunately.


in a pinch.. any vegi/glycerine based dish soap or similar will work.
 
I use Victaulic pipe grease for mounting tires by hand, tubed or tubeless. It is a water soluable grease for lubricating the rubber gaskets in Victaulic and Gruv-Loc mechanical pipe joints. Gets all over, but washes off with water once the tire is mounted and aired. It allows the bead to seat with much less of a pop too.
 
Here is what I use. It is very slippery stuff.




Phoenix 505 Water Dispersible Type Pipe Joint Lubricant





jtmproductsinc.net › Pipe Joint Lubricants


Phoenix 505 Pipe Joint Lubricant is a soft, water dispersible paste or gel. It is a stable blend of vegetable oil, soaps, and water. It is certified by the Water Quality
 
I just use Cyclo Breakaway it is a penetrating oil for bolts. Works good for mounting or dismounting tires. I use it on both tube or tubeless.
As for Slime never used it. Got some junk from Gensco with the tires not to impressed with it. It"s green with some kind of small bits in it. Supposed to seal those airplane tires they sell.
The liquid soap works only it will cause the rim to rust from the soap. It is like and acid effect on the metal.
 
I use windex.

We don't use Slime. We get some stuff from Frontier Lubricants that works pretty well. Run it in all the (no-til) planter tires, 2wd tractor fronts, and a couple trailers.
 
Chuck, I spent 22+ years as an owner of a tire shop. Dish soap is not slick enough for the job, It can and will break down the rubber along the bead area, so does grease from the grease tubes that 1 uses to lube machinery. The slickest stuff we found was called Big Blue, it is made by Bowes, a professional tire repair supplier. We tried all the ones that are mentioned in this post. As far as green slime, when we were brought a tire with that junk in it, the price per repair went up by $10.00 per tire. It just hides the holes "temporly' till you get them to a tire shop for proper repair, especially in a tube. You would need gallons of the stuff to do any good in a rear tractor tire.
 
(quoted from post at 09:43:20 04/16/13) Our local Mills Fleet Farm has pouches of tire lube that mix with water. I have had just as much sucess with dishsoap.

Tried the green slime in ATV and lawn mower tires. Seemed to work okay in warm weather but the tires wouldn't hold air during winter. Anybody else experience that?

Slime stays liquid, and in order for it to keep working, you have to drive the vehicle regularly to keep it distributed. Otherwise it just settles in the bottom of the tire, and if the leak isn't there, the tire goes flat.
 
Get the tire paste from Meyers, and use plenty. Every week I have some "tire professional" trying to return a tire as an oe sidewall sep when they've chipped the bead mounting it tOo dry. Every other week some one tries to return a tire as OOR that didn't seat concentrically because they mounted it to dry. When it comes to tires, mounting or dismounting, tire lube is your friend.
 

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