Tractor Tire Repair advice

[don45640]

Again,thinking like a contractor, I would be tempted to try concrete vertical joint filler .Any construction supply place would have it.It's tough,really tough like the tire's rubber.It adheres,too. Sonneborn is one brand that's really good.Just a thought. donohio ^)

 

[Soundguy]

windshield urethane maybee? just for cosmetics..

 

[arrow]

An old farmer up the road from me who is now deceased used to fill gaps like this on his 8N by pouring contact cement on the wound and then spraying it with chassis undercoat. I looked at him when I first saw him doing this and made the mistake of asking him "does this work?". He then stated "Ya think I'd be doing this if it didn't". This was 25 years ago and I cannot ask him how the fix is holding up. Every thing in sight on his farm seemed to be patched like this including the barn. I guess he had alot of faith in contact cement.

 

[Soundguy]

it's still cosmetic. i know of no way to revulcanize old rubber...

 

[lonesome pine]

to foam dont think so . I should have mention the boot goes in side of tire over the cut. the bolts go from the inside out. the round carriage head of bolt want damage tube and when your put washer and nut on out side of tire and tighten down take a hacksaw and cut bolts off at nut. install a tube grease good with hand soap and pump up. it will work. I live in south Georgia in the farming belt. the shops dont want to fix or repair just replace.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I wonder if one could even find a boot large enough to cover a 6"gash now days. Used to be, one could find them at the old country stores as just about all of them had services to fix a flat. NOW you rarely see a country store or even find an air or water stations at the city gas station and if you do it is for a fee. I would say that maybe half have windshield cleaning stations that are functional, meaning fresh cleaning solution, paper towels and squeegee /brush.
There must be vulcanizers around as there is all kinds of re-cap tires for sale. Likely they might not fool with fixing a tractor tire.

 

[Don87]

I wonder if one could even find a boot large enough to cover a 6"gash now days. Used to be, one could find them at the old country stores as just about all of them had services to fix a flat. NOW you rarely see a country store or even find an air or water stations at the city gas station and if you do it is for a fee. I would say that maybe half have windshield cleaning stations that are functional, meaning fresh cleaning solution, paper towels and squeegee /brush.
There must be vulcanizers around as there is all kinds of re-cap tires for sale. Likely they might not fool with fixing a tractor tire.

The ones that recap tractor-trailer tires will might them. Like Valley Tire in Belle Vernon, Pa., Syracuse, NY., Rochester, NY. They have quite a few outlets.

 

[Egon]

After ten or eleven years the OP should know how well the patch worked!

 

[Don87]

After ten or eleven years the OP should know how well the patch worked!

I noticed it was an old thread, dredged up, but there were recent post concerning tractor tire vulcanizing. I just hope the info I provided is useful for someone.

 

[lonesome pine]

like I said the shops wants to sell you a tire not repair it. thats more money for them. repair items is a thing of the past just throw it away and buy a nother. that might work for some people but dont always work for everyone. I dont know where you can buy big boots in todays market. when I was fixing tires you could buy any size you wanted up to reliners which is a boot that will go in side of your tire all the way around ends meeting. I have tore down some pretty rough looking tires to patch and they would have reliners in them still rollng

 

[Don87]

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[Don87]

like I said the shops wants to sell you a tire not repair it. thats more money for them. repair items is a thing of the past just throw it away and buy a nother. that might work for some people but dont always work for everyone. I dont know where you can buy big boots in todays market. when I was fixing tires you could buy any size you wanted up to reliners which is a boot that will go in side of your tire all the way around ends meeting. I have tore down some pretty rough looking tires to patch and they would have reliners in them still rollng

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[Soundguy]

you can still get large boots.

or cut your own from iner tubes.

or use a piece of mud flap with an inner tube covering.

have seen the bolted tire trick too..

 

[Rbyrd33]

This is all that you need to fill in chunks that have been ripped/torn out. Easy fix for under 7 bucks. And works great. Fill it in with asphalt roof cement from a caulk tube...smooth down....wait for it to dry. It is flexible, so it will work great.
Shop BLACK JACK 10 oz Cement Roof Coating at Lowes.com
Good Luck...

 

[stuckmotor]

That's what I'm finding out Gary.

I think I have some 3/8" (or so) thick conveyor belt. Would a section of that do for a boot?

I used baler belting to make a boot. First I feathered the edges in an attempt to keep the boot from rubbing a hole in the tube.

 

[jimainiac]

Rbyrd33, good for you for posting that link for that particular type of neoprene roof cement. We had a flat roof covered with rubber roofing, and that was the only roof cement product I could find that was compatible with rubber roof material. I had great results patching and repairing the roof with this particular product. I think it would be just the ticket for putting in a gash in a tractor tire. As I was reading this thread I started thinking about it and was surprised when I clicked on the link in that post.
I have a loaded rear tire that got a ragged puncture from a stub of a metal T fence post. The tire shop put a couple of those puncture filling strips in the hole, patched it and put a tube in, and the repair is fine, but it still looks ragged on the outside. Now that you reminded me about that neoprene roof cement, I'm going to fill it in to make it look better and to keep dirt out of it.
I generally prefer Home Depot to Lowes, but I only found that product at Lowes and HD didn't have a similar product, which was unusual.

 

[Rbyrd33]

Rbyrd33, good for you for posting that link for that particular type of neoprene roof cement. We had a flat roof covered with rubber roofing, and that was the only roof cement product I could find that was compatible with rubber roof material. I had great results patching and repairing the roof with this particular product. I think it would be just the ticket for putting in a gash in a tractor tire. As I was reading this thread I started thinking about it and was surprised when I clicked on the link in that post.
I have a loaded rear tire that got a ragged puncture from a stub of a metal T fence post. The tire shop put a couple of those puncture filling strips in the hole, patched it and put a tube in, and the repair is fine, but it still looks ragged on the outside. Now that you reminded me about that neoprene roof cement, I'm going to fill it in to make it look better and to keep dirt out of it.
I generally prefer Home Depot to Lowes, but I only found that product at Lowes and HD didn't have a similar product, which was unusual.

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Yes, the product works great. It is black so I blends right in. It is flexible which is perfect. And it only cost about 25 cents to repair considering you are only using such a small amount of the product. Sure beats a couple hundred bucks for the tire repair or couple thousand for a new tire. You can smooth it down and it looks great. If you really want to get picky, you can even sand it down to make it flush. Since it is on a tractor tire, there really is no need for the cosmetic look as much as the function of it.
Good luck with it. It works great for me and the price was right.