Well that didn't work

grandpa Love

Well-known Member
Have a big split in a tire. Very
deep. Tried flex seal, lasted
about 4 hours of running through
the mud,pulled right off . Any
idea what I can fill it with? Just
don't want a thorn or small stick
to bust the tube.
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You could patch it by taking the tire apart, but I have a feeling you're trying to avoid that.

If you go the hard route, take a scrap piece of rubber and some carriage bolts with nuts lock washers and bolt the tire patch in place over the gash. Before doing this, go over each carriage bolt to ensure there are no sharp edges or bits of metal that might rub on the tube. You could also use a piece of plate steel about 1/8" thick rather than rubber. Cut off any excess threads and you're good to go.
 
Any brand of good epoxy for rubber, like Devcon flexane or J&B Weld for rubber, I have fixed moco conditioning rolls and they held up. Be sure to clean the area good as per the instructions and allow it to cure as per the instructions.
 
Could just come here and get a good used tire. But then you could probably just buy a new one cheaper if you figured your fuel for a road trip. Other than that, no idea.
 
On one like that you need to break it down and install a boot on the inside then also use something like the Tech. brand cat.#858 on the out side. That Tech stuff is not cheap and is a 2 part stuff that is made just for problems like that
 
If you value your wife as much as I think you do than just replace the tire. I see her driving this tractor. If that tire blows out in that break anyone around it could easily be seriously hurt. A few hundred dollar towards a tire would not pay many medical bills.

Just my thoughts. I have seen the results of side wall blow outs and there is more force there than you think.
 
Being full of fluid makes it even more likely to have something punch a hole in the tube and then your really in trouble. Time to bite the bullet and fix it as I said or replace it before it leaves you out in the field with CACL all over and killing what even is close. My self I would fix it as I said but I also have the tools to do so and the know how
 
kevin what your looking at there is murphys law in all it's meaning!! "what ever can go wrong will go wrong and at the MOST inopportune time you can imagine" if you have any tractor wreckers close call and see if they have a good set of used tires, if not bite the bullet and get a new set put on. if grandma is sitting on that seat when it blows it will be a very LONG time before you ever see a pan of hot biscuits :lol:
 
If you're out in some rich guy's pasture putting up a fence and that tire blows wonder how he's going to view your tractor being responsible for killing a huge patch of grass not to mention what it will do to your tractor and then loose a day's work getting the tire repaired back on etc.To me it'd be a pretty easy decision.Then as JD Seller said it can injure the driver.
 
I can?t tell much about your tire in pic, long time ago my Daddy had an old John Deere 40 tricycle frontend tractor and rear tires were cracked and split in several spots, he would have boots put in to protect the tubes, he ran that tractor for many years with boots in rear tires
 
I saw a small tractor tire blow one time, almost blew a large shed door right off its tracks. There's a enough energy in those tires to support the back of a tractor.
 
(quoted from post at 17:46:12 05/26/18) You could patch it by taking the tire apart, but I have a feeling you're trying to avoid that.

If you go the hard route, take a scrap piece of rubber and some carriage bolts with nuts lock washers and bolt the tire patch in place over the gash. Before doing this, go over each carriage bolt to ensure there are no sharp edges or bits of metal that might rub on the tube. You could also use a piece of plate steel about 1/8" thick rather than rubber. Cut off any excess threads and you're good to go.

I remember an old tight wad that used that method. He found where the local tire manufacturer dumped the tires that didn’t pass inspection. They would cut a big gash in the sidewall!
 
Tough to find a pair of good used tires ..... better luck finding just one, which is all you need really.
 
First with electrical staples but the nuts and bolts and Then spray paint it black to match is tooo much. Funny!
 
I have bolted a patch in a tire that was split right down the center for about 3 feet it was an odd size couldn?t afford a new one and couldn?t find a used one it lasted quite awhile it was quite a bit of work but it got me buy
 
I have a tractor that has a 16.9X30 tire on it that has a hole in it and I have a real good looking 18.4X30 that has a cut in the tread area about 18 inches long that I am thinking about bolting part of an old tire to so I can use it. The tire with a cut is in real good shape other then the cut
 
Had the front tire on my 4230 blow...and I do mean blow! It was cracked between the ribs but had alot of rubber left. I was driving betweens barn and hit a #2 stone just right and she let loose. A stone hit the steering wheel busting the plastic off it and bending the steel spike then hit me in the chest leaving a nice bruise. I hung the old steering wheel in the shop as a reminder!
 
I used some rubber conveyor belting we call it potato belt here and I laid that down with contact cement then ran a double row of 5/16 carriage bolts and then I split an old inner tube and laid that over the belting and contact cemented that down then I took silicone and laid a bead down each side of the tube edge to really make it smooth . I think the tire is still out here I?ll take some pictures and post
 
I am more than impressed that the flex seal lasted 4 hours in an application like that . Now who wants to cut the bottom out of a boat and put a screen door cover it in flex seal and see if it floats 😂😂😂
 
Hey Bill,that's what I told my wife. Gotta run back up to the salvage yard! They have 100s of used tires for $100-150 each. Just gotta dig through the piles to find the right size.
 
I bet I have some old mud flap laying around that I could use in place of that belt. I figure a new 16.9X30 will cost over $500 and I only have a few hundred in the tractor as it is. It was given to me last summer due to catching fire. IH584 with loader and runs well
 
I use Seal All for tie cracks. Sticks to anything and gas and oil impervious. Laasts as long as I have used it.
 

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