[canoetrpr]

I think the lesson of the day is don't mess with a loaded tire that needs repair. Unload it first.

I don't have a valve to NTP adapter since I never filled my own tires so I didn't try to unload. Figured I would release the air from the tire to see if I could pry the upper part of the tire off the rim to see if I could tighten the valve or something.

For starters, I got more liquid. Once I'd gotten some of the tire over the rim I could see that the liquid was coming out an inch or two away from the valve. I don't know if this was the original leak or a punture I ended up making while try to pry the tire over the rim. It's possible it is the leak as when I pryed the tire over the rim there was a gush of air. I'm guessing that there is pretty good seal between the rim and the tire so it might have made sense for the leak to appear to be coming from around the valve if somehow only the tube and not the tire ended up getting a hole.

I guess I better leave it alone at this point. No point trying to get the part of the tire I got off the rim over it again (about a 1/3). The valve is still accessible so when the tire man is here I imagine that the first thing he will do is unload it and then go about fixing it.

I'm in half a mind to go pick up one of those filler adapters for valve to NTP to drain the fluid into a tub and save it and then take the tire and tube off and give it a good wash. Don't like the idea of all that leaked CaCl2 sitting on an around the rim.

Aaaargh!

If I were to have to do it again I think I would have loaded it myself without tubes but with something no corrosive like WW fluid. I think that a puncture of any sort would be much easier to fix on a tubeless tire. A tube seems to add some complexity to fixing things up.