Tubes

The Luke · Sep 15, 2018

Anybody have any experience running tubes in their tars? My iroks leak like a mofo and I'm sick of wearing out my little 12v compressor every single time I want to move the Jeep. Also, what size do I need? These dang ag sizes make no sense at all.

39.5x13.50r17

TBItoy · Sep 15, 2018

I put a quart of slime in each of the rotten iroks on the gremlin and it fixed them. Aired them up to 20-30 psi and drove around a bit. They had big wet spots all over from the slime leakage, but I aired them down to 7 for the next ride and didn't touch them for over a year after

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The Luke · Sep 15, 2018

Ill give it a shot. I'm over airing these suckers up

TBItoy · Sep 15, 2018

there is some stuff that is supposedly much better than "Slime", lots of ATV/UTV guys run it

poolman · Sep 15, 2018

TBItoy said:
I put a quart of slime in each of the rotten iroks on the gremlin and it fixed them. Aired them up to 20-30 psi and drove around a bit. They had big wet spots all over from the slime leakage, but I aired them down to 7 for the next ride and didn't touch them for over a year after

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X2 I ran slime in some H1s years ago and I couldn't even air them down. The valve stem would stop up. Had to remove it just to get lower pressure.

paradisepwoffrd · Sep 16, 2018

Just a reminder though, that crap is a mess when you go to change the tires.

sleepsontoilet · Sep 16, 2018

My old Trail Ready wheels had been broken and welded together so many times they wouldn't hold air. I grabbed some tubes from Tractor Supply and drill a hole for the valve stem, and ran them for several years.

Dirt700 · Sep 16, 2018

My old silver buggy had tubes in 2 tires. Never had a problem with them. They were 42s, when to Farmers co-op and found closet to that size.

The Luke · Sep 16, 2018

sleepsontoilet said:
My old Trail Ready wheels had been broken and welded together so many times they wouldn't hold air. I grabbed some tubes from Tractor Supply and drill a hole for the valve stem, and ran them for several years.

Maybe I'm just dumb... but couldn't you reuse the original valve stem hole?

TBItoy · Sep 16, 2018

Re:

The tube stem will usually be in the center or near center of the rim

The Luke · Sep 17, 2018

So if I was to ever get new tires, that did not require tubes, I guess I could put two valve stems in? Otherwise, I could somehow plug the second hole.

wizzo · Sep 17, 2018

Use slime and be done with it. I used it on my Krawlers. Worked great. When you break the wheel and tire down it rinses off with a water hose. Really not as bad as people make it out to be IMO.

jeeptj99 · Sep 17, 2018

We put slime in our backhoe tire and it didnt leak down. Took about a gallon for it to stop leaking. Thank God it was a front tire. It was however a nasty mother ****er to change the tire about 3 weeks later when it got cut. There was slime every where.

TBItoy · Sep 17, 2018

The Luke said:
So if I was to ever get new tires, that did not require tubes, I guess I could put two valve stems in? Otherwise, I could somehow plug the second hole.

Yeah just pull another valve stem in

or when you buy some inner air locks to keep the inner beads on, you'll have a valve stem hole already.

or if it's a steel wheel, just weld the hold up

or weld a bung in it to put an air compressor drain so you can air down fast (probably not an issue with an offroad only rig, but I did that back when I used to drive & wheel)

Or just use some slime and you'd be done already. It's not bad when you take the tire off, just a bit slimey...

CarolinaCrawler1 · Sep 17, 2018

TBItoy said:
I put a quart of slime in each of the rotten iroks on the gremlin and it fixed them. Aired them up to 20-30 psi and drove around a bit. They had big wet spots all over from the slime leakage, but I aired them down to 7 for the next ride and didn't touch them for over a year after

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That thing still leaves green spots on the garage floor! Other than one time I pulled the tire off the rim, I haven't had to touch the air in them. I keep thinking I'm going to have to op off the slime though!

TBItoy · Sep 17, 2018

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CarolinaCrawler1 said:
That thing still leaves green spots on the garage floor! Other than one time I pulled the tire off the rim, I haven't had to touch the air in them. I keep thinking I'm going to have to op off the slime though!

Dang I figured you'd have to have tires by now. Cords = traction