Thread: Ride on mower puncture

tyre weld!!!

i carry 4 cans in my ute, great for teh mower tyres. and even the trailer and ute tyres. so long as the holes aint to big.

if your mower has tubeless tyres (like most do) you can jsut plug them. i do this when i get a nail threw one of teh utes. or tractor. only takes 30 seconds and you dont even need to take the tyre off.

I think you were lucky he didn't have a vulcaniser patch. Have you done that sort of work recently? And on such a small tyre? And without heavy-duty equipment to remove and replace the tyre on the rim?

I recently wanted to put inner tubes in some leaking wheelbarrow tyres. I finally found a source for the inner tubes, and the estimated cost of installation was almost double the cost of entire new wheels, with fresh tyres, bushings and all. I bought the new wheels.

Cheers,
Joe

Yes, I must admit it was a task removing the old tube
and getting it back together. It appears the smaller the
tyre the harder it becomes. However, I did succeed.

Allan

We have a large John Deere lawn tractor that always seemed to have slow punctures in the front tyres (the back ones are so beefy that they are unlikely to puncture).

Went into my local dealer looking for a tube to suit, or some such method of repair, but instead he silently handed me a bottle of this stuff:

Tyre Sealant - $11.95 : SLiME Flat Tyre Repair, Smart Solutions for Flat Tyre Prevention: ATV, Bicycle, Motorcycle, Lawn Tractor

Put half the bottle into each front tyre, reinflated, problem solved. This stuff has sealed several minor punctures, plus a nail puncture into one of the front tyres. It also seals the tyre on the rim, where you often get minor leaks due to corrosion. Apparently some contractors put this goo into the tyres as soon as they buy a new tractor - if you get a puncture halfway through a job in the middle of nowhere the tyre seals itself, maybe requires a top up from the 12V compressor, then you can just keep going.

I can't believe that I stuffed around for so long reinflating tyres every time I took the tractor out................