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Plugging a tire?
« on: September 30, 2017, 04:02:10 PM »
Walked out late morning to put a seat in the seat only to find a flat tire.  Crap....

Have a good used replacement tire laying under the work bench that could have put on.  Just really didn't want to mess with it though.  Wanted to get riding now.  So plugged it real quick and thought "to hell with it."  Puncture was in the sidewall but it sealed up so well I just wasn't going to worry with it.

Screw it. 

I know.  Some will bitch about safety and ignorance.  Probably even using the wrong kind of oil to lube the plug.  But I wanted to get the yard mowed and those stupid little tires are such a bitch to get reinflated when they've been off the wheel.  Even worse is that I intend to keep right on using it...
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2017, 04:48:28 PM »
Don't know if I could live with having to keep the speed in single digits.   :D

"They all do that."  Just said that b/c you probably miss hearing it at the dealership.  LOL
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2017, 05:06:26 PM »
I sometimes wish I had a rider .... even one with a plugged tire!
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2017, 05:07:43 PM »
You know they're gonna move this thread somewhere else, don't ya?!
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2017, 05:31:56 PM »
I put an inter tube in mine but sometimes I get that HIGH GRASS Wobble
at upper single digit speed.  :huepfenlol2:
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2017, 06:48:54 PM »

Well, when that plug gets shot out of the sidewall and hits your companion/neighbor in the eye, don't say I didn't warn you.

Jerry  :nervous:
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2017, 07:27:37 PM »
Living on the edge....you 1%

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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2017, 07:39:40 PM »
I wouldn't do it. . I'd replace it. .  Sucks when that happens. .  Stuart  >:(
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2017, 09:07:26 PM »
Maybe it will be the last ride for it this season... ;D
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2017, 09:18:41 PM »
I personally wouldn't plug a sidewall.
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2017, 09:27:00 PM »
 :D
I have 10 acres if Osage Orange and Honey Locust........... I feel your pain!

Place is up for sale now, living in in Manerva now. (Manerva is our motorhome)

When we sell, off in Manerva for at least a year before we build an old people friendly house with no steps.
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2017, 10:02:40 PM »
Don,

That’s the crazy chit we did in our 20’s single before a family
Get a replacement, do not go past go & collect $200  ???
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2017, 01:34:25 AM »
Quote from: 110tHunDer on September 30, 2017, 05:07:43 PM
You know they're gonna move this thread somewhere else, don't ya?!


Yeap.  But it's after midnight and they haven't yet!!
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2017, 01:35:28 AM »
Quote from: Bubba on September 30, 2017, 05:31:56 PM
I put an inter tube in mine but sometimes I get that HIGH GRASS Wobble
at upper single digit speed.  :huepfenlol2:


Mike, any kind of a grass related wobble might be entirely different kind of problem.   :huepfenlol2:
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Re: Plugging a tire?
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2017, 01:36:34 AM »
Quote from: Yellow09SERG on September 30, 2017, 09:07:26 PM
Maybe it will be the last ride for it this season... ;D


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