Stinkin' flats!

[DieselPower]

The legit tractor tire dealers I use don't even like to work on tires that have been slime filled and consider plugs as something an amateur does as a temp patch. They always take the tire off and grind the inside and put a patch on the inside of the tire.

Andy

Many of the tire shops in my area will actually install tire sealant for you. Don't forget there are different kinds. Some that can be easily rinsed out with water in case a patch is needed some time in the future for a very large hole and those type sealants that are not water based and once installed the tires can not be patched.

 

[PineRidge]

This is a gun similar to the ones used in 14 service stations that our family owned as I was growing up. You could inject the mushroom plugs without removing the tire, done pneumatically, and because of the vulcanization process were considered a permanent repair.

plug gun

 

[Bird]

Mike, I've never used those vulcanizing mushroom plugs, but the very first plugs on the market were mushroom type plugs, and of course there was some adhesive to use with them, but they weren't very good. I guess that could be expected with totally new products. We even had people bring brand new cars to us to put tubes in those tubeless tires because they just didn't trust those new-fangled tubeless tires.