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Emergency Tire repair kit

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SVcummins

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Plugs glue and the tool to ream the hole and put the plug in
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And a box that fits under the hind seat
 
That's a nice repair kit . I am getting too old to repair tires on road. Keep good spare on truck and trailer and let tire shop do the work.
 
(quoted from post at 12:46:50 06/01/19) That's a nice repair kit . I am getting too old to repair tires on road. Keep good spare on truck and trailer and let tire shop do the work.
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I have plugs in a few of my auto tires one I ran for years. I remember when the repair shops used them. Wish I would've had a kit and mini air compressor a few weeks ago. I had a flat on the road and my spare was flat. Would've saved a lot of hassle.
 
I hate doing tire repair to but when you carry a diesel air compressor on the truck might as well have some plugs . We got done bailing last summer got back to the pickup and had flat had a plug fixed the hole and pumped up the tire and went home that was in my cousins truck
 
That's good to have in an emergency but they always start slow leaking after a while, at least they do for me. Do you carry a compressor too?
 
I have patched a trailer house tire with a plug and
had pretty good luck I like to use a little extra glue
seems to make em stock a little better
 
I have a Compressor on the truck for blowing off equipment running die grinder impact wrench or an air hammer or pumping up a tire
 
My 2 cents. Do you remember the rubber plugs for Bias tires? Looked like big black pieces of liquorish . I have found the best rope type plugs are the Camel brand. They have been very reliable for me. Other brands leaked. Also I no longer use the little tube of rubber cement. Now use Weldwood contact cement. It is always in my tool box anyway. Just goop some on and things Don't leak! The round type
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with the long string looking thing are the best as they can be used on any type of tubless tire but you need the fish " insertion tool" to get them in.
 
On a nice regular cab there is probably room behind the front seat . My 95 had room for 5 gallon of oil on one side and that much more behind the passenger seat
 
Barely room for an ice scraper. There is a "tool box" behind the driver's seat. Maybe 4 or 5 inches wide and probably not even a foot long. I really can't complain to much about it though. I bought it new and it's been reliable and done everything I've ever asked of it.
 
Those are good ol trucks . I had a 96 with a 6.5 for my work truck paid 1000$ for it drove it for two years and sold it for 500$ The damper came loose and ruined the end of the crankshaft I green loctited the damper back on I got it to hold but you could watch the damper move up and down I knew it wouldn?t last very long that way so I sold it to some kids that wanted it for something or another. The body was completely shot or I would have kept it
 
I?m not sure what brand these are I?ve used them before seem to work pretty good . That?s an awfully nice tire to have a hole in it . When I bolted a patch in a split tractor tire I used a hardware store type of contact cement and it worked really well with the rubber I was worried it may not
 
I use to just keep a few In the glove box but then they?d dry out get lost so I?ve been thinking It would be a good idea to make up a kit with everything in one place
 
I've got a little box with plugs, reamer, insert tool, core tool, extra cores, caps.

My problem is the glue always dries out, have to get creative with finding something to slick them up to get it to go in. Steel belt tires can be a real bear to get one in. Near impossible in some without running a drill in first. Then I reverse the drill, run it as I pull out so the wires are pointing inward.

I used to run plugs as a permanent repair, they lasted as long as a patch. But for some reason now they start to slow leak after a while.

But they will still work in an emergency.
 


When I was on the road a lot making a lot of stops I used to carry a plug kit. A few times I had noticed a slow leak, and with the kit you can plug it and still make it to an air source and save a lot of time.
 
I dont know about the black ones like he has in the picture but the red ones you dont have to use glue and they work fine. The ones he has in the picture actually look like the red colored ones they are really sticky. I carry a kit under my back seat of my truck always.
 
About two years ago I picked up a nail in my 4x8 foot trailer tire. The repair shop used one of those blue plugs as the patch. Has been perfect. They take a little grinder and rough the inside surface so it will really stitch correctly. The tool kinda looks like a small darning needle with a tiny hook on the end. Stick it into the tire and that long skinny thing gets hooked then pull it through. Some of that Weldwood Contact cement works very well.
 
Definitely get the Camel ones. Have had very good service from them. Also the contact cement really glues them in.
 
The plastic handled insertion tools scare me. I have a drawer full of them with the handles busted off. Seems like it would be only a matter of time before one breaks and puts the shank through my hand.
 
The plugs really are handy to have . It?s amazing
how you can hear a tire start leaking over road
noise and the truck isn?t it
 
Steve that?s why I bought the glue because the plugs dry out and then they?re hard to get to stick
 
(quoted from post at 07:35:52 06/02/19) The plastic handled insertion tools scare me. I have a drawer full of them with the handles busted off. Seems like it would be only a matter of time before one breaks and puts the shank through my hand.
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Harold, Could you post a pic of that drawer?
 
(quoted from post at 10:26:08 06/02/19) The plugs really are handy to have . It?s amazing
how you can hear a tire start leaking over road
noise and the truck isn?t it
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Yes, SV that would be amazing. My particular situation has been as I stated that I would be making a lot of stops and notice a soft tire while stopped.
 
I cannot remember the last time I had a flat that they would have worked in, that is also if I could have gotten to where I could find the leak. Just anouther useless item to try to carry.
 
Drawer full was an exaggeration, I looked in it today and there were only three broken ones, but I know of at least two more that got flying lessons as soon as they broke.

It is more often the reamer, rather than the insertion tool that lets go. That is why I have extra insertion tools.

I have also made handles from EMT and welded them on.
 
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