Plugging Tractor Tire

Bill VA · Oct 17, 2016

Somehow I managed over the weekend to hit a piece of rusty woven wire in the dirt and the brush hog sent a piece, about 1/16 inch diameter and about 4 inches long into the sidewall about half way up on my rear tire. The tire is now flat! Dang!!

Not near the tractor this week, but I think it is tubeless.

Obviously, I wouldn't think of plugging the sidewall on a car tire, but a tractor tire??????

Anyone done it? Success???

If I find it has a tube, I'm sure that that will be an adventure.....

Thanks,
Bill

ohiojim · Oct 17, 2016

I have a plug in sidewall on my tractor from fence wire, holding good so far

Janicholson · Oct 17, 2016

An umbrella patch from the inside with a secondary patch ofer it covering an additional inch past the umbrella will work Clean, scrub and glue (or hot vulcanize with the pyrotechnic patch. Jim

ed will · Oct 17, 2016

Hi, I drove thru an opening in a fence line where one post had a piece of tin protruding. It cut a slice in the side wall of the rear tire of my Case 530. It was a fairly new set of tires. I used 3 conveyor belt joiners that you drill holes and bolt each side then grind the bolts of off smooth. Then I put a 7" wide patch over it. It worked well with no problem for years until I wore them out and had to replace. I had that tractor from 1965 to 1995. Great tractor! Ed Will Oliver BC wine capital

ed will · Oct 17, 2016

Hi, on a prior post I forgot to mention that I put the patch on the inside of the tire and used a tube too. Ed Will

Russ from MN · Oct 17, 2016

I plugged a small hole in the sidewall of one of our rears (18x24 when the tractor was almost new, 15 years later still holding well.

Michael Soldan · Oct 17, 2016

I took a practically new truck tire into the tire shop with a cut on the sidewall. They sent it out and had it repaired, actually vulcanized. It cost me $30 but it was a $250 tire and so far so good. That is a possibility for you and as others mentioned patch the inside and put a tube in it.

Dr. Walt · Oct 18, 2016

Bill VA:

"Obviously, I wouldn't think of plugging the sidewall on a car tire, . . ."

And WHY NOT?

Back when I had my '67 Toyota Landcruiser, I got a 3 inch rock slice in the sidewall of one of my 6-ply Tubeless Kelley-Springfield Silvertown Trailmaker Mud & Snow tires. The slice went all the way through with about a 1 inch slice on the inside. I thoroughly cleaned the inside of the tire around the slice with Tire Solvent and then applied a 4 inch square Hot Vulcanizing Patch over the slice. After the Hot Patch had cooled, I again cleaned the inside of the tire including the back of the Hot Patch, with Solvent. Then I applied an 8 inch Hot Vulcanizing BOOT over the Hot Patch. I used that repaired tire for another 22,000 Miles; I replaced the tires several years later with a little over 47,000 Miles on that set of tires.

Doc :>)

Plugging Tractor Tire

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