Plugging Tires

[Cat420]

Our backhoe has tiny hole in one of the back tires (it loses 8-10 psi over a week and a half) The hole is in the middle of one of the lugs. Is it alright to plug it with a regular tire plug kit or do I need something special for this kind of tire? Thanks

[salesrep]

Ameriseal may work.

[Cat420]

Is that similar to something like Slime or Fix-a-Flat? The reason I ask is that we have a plug kit that I have used to plug a bunch of car tires and none have ever leaked again. I just wasn't sure if it safe to use on equipment tires. The hole is more of an annoyance than anything, because of how slow it leaks, but I want to fix it right.

[digger242j]

I've had plenty of backhoe tires plugged over the years, and there's never been any saftey issue. Some I plugged myself, and others I had done at a tire shop. The worst outcome I had was that eventually the tire stopped holding air, (whether it was through one of the plugs, or something else), and I had a tube put in it. The tire guy neglected to do anything with the ends of the plugs sticking into the inside of the tire, and eventually one of them wore a hole in the tube.

[Cat420]

That's exactly what I was hoping to hear. Thanks

[Steve Frazier]

I've plugged my skid steer tire, got a few more hundred hours out of it. The only problem I had was pulling the plug out a couple times while spinning the tires, pop in a new plug and your back in business.

[Bob Horrell]

I have plugged my tires numerous times without a single problem. On my previous tractor I must have had 25 to 30 plugs on all the tires combined (a problem doing finish grading around new houses with all the nails on the ground). My rear tires are filled with water and anti-freeze and never had a problem with a plug in the rear. I always plugged the rear with the hole at the top and the excaping air dried out the hole and the plug stuck well. I carry one of the cheapie plug kits with me at all times and just plug on the spot when I get a nail.

[digger242j]

(a problem doing finish grading around new houses with all the nails on the ground).

Don't you just love carpenters? :Banghead

[dayexco]

have you ever had your tires "bubblegummed"? first flat we get, we do that, don't have to plug them from then on....locally on a 20.5-25 loader tire, about $70 each.

[544D10]

Don't you just love carpenters? :Banghead

I deal with that everyday. I swear if it takes 5 boxes of nails to frame a house at least 1 of those boxes ends up as broken racks that get sweped off the slab onto the surrounding ground.

[chechnya]

The company i work for owns two Kubota L35's and i do multi-family so nails and screws are everyday living. We had new tires put on it and we cut open the old ones. Haha there were about 40 tire plugs just sitting there. Just use tire plugs, they work.

[itsgottobegreen]

I got puncture proof tubes in my front tires on my kubota. The bobcats have foam filled tires on them.

[chechnya]

The company really wanted to foam fill the tires but it would of been WAY too heavy and therefor uneconomical. We use them for dirt work and use them in clay/mud all the time so yeah, wasnt very smart.