Fixing flats

[Steve FarrellMember]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLtBojvDEyc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Would love to see one of you tubeless guys try this

[glennMember]

Simple case of barimetric pressure,,hot inside, cold outside, fill inside with rapidly expanding air and Bobs ya uncle… seen it done a few times….

[Dwayne OMember]

:laugh:
Don`t thinK I would stand too close :laugh:

[GregMember]

Boony wrote:

Simple case of barimetric pressure,,hot inside, cold outside, fill inside with rapidly expanding air and Bobs ya uncle… seen it done a few times….

Yeah Boony I will let me Hilux tyre done when we see one another next time and I want to see you do it, carton says you can’t do it

TB

[glennMember]

if we are in sub zero temp you are on my man, and its crownies…

[David FirmingerMember]

Come for a drive, got the sub zero temps happening and a bottlo up the road:laugh:

[GregMember]

Boony wrote:

Simple case of barimetric pressure,,hot inside, cold outside, fill inside with rapidly expanding air and Bobs ya uncle… seen it done a few times….

You know thats not inflated don’t you it’s only beaded the tyre to be inflated and it doesn’t need to be sub zero temps either. If you need more proof there are guys standing round in tee shirts Boony :laugh:

TB

[ianMember]

still a pretty cool trick but TB

[GregMember]

huskybloke wrote:

still a pretty cool trick but TB

Absolutely very very cool and it would be good to see it done live cause it is trick

TB

[glennMember]

sub zero because you can keep warm at the same time :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ilCU_T07E

good trick!!!!

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Rod up the local taxi base has been doing this for years, works a treat and believe it or not is on probability factors safer than using huge air pressure to bead it in

[RyanMember]

I saw this on a 4wd forum ages ago, people were whinging about it. I reckon if your on a track, give it a crack.

[RoyMember]

This is too much for my little brain to get around. If it works on the principal of the heat expanding the air to blow up the tyre wouldn’t the tyre just go back down once the air has cooled back down half an hour later. What is the stuff they spray in, is it just any old aerosol.

[drewMember]

yeh Bundy,

i reckon it would go down/ the air in the tyre would contract over time as it cools.

but as TB said, they have only got the tyre to bead properly/ bead to seal on the rim enough to then be inflated.

you’ll find they most likely used an air compressor to inflate it to the correct pressure.

as with a large tyre like that, you would be hard pressed to get the tyre bead to seal enough to inflate it with the travel compressor they would have taken with them.

brake cleaner would work well… aerosol can degreaser too…..

you would have to light the fluid/ mist in the tyre pretty soon after you spray it into the tyre, otherwise it wouldn’t have quite the same expansion / explosion as if you let it evaporate too much.

hairspray would work ok i guess, that’s what they used to use in the spud guns.

[drewMember]

i’ve just done this to a tyre on my sister’s ride on mower, tubless rear.

all i could find was some supermarket brand insect repellent and a box of matchs.

it beaded the tyre well. but as soon as the tyre was beaded, you could see it shrink / loose pressure almost straight away. but it left enough pressure in it to inflate it properly with the compressor.

i don’t know if you left it sit long enough after getting the bead sealed, as to how much pressure it would loose or if it would go flat again all together.

thanks youtube and DRool, for giving me another skill :laugh:

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