How To Plug a Flat Tire with a 1A Auto Tire Repair Kit
Created on: 2014-10-04
How to fix, patch or plug a punctured, flat, or leaking tire.
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step 1 :Finding the Leak
- Insert air into your tire
- Listen to where the air comes out or use water with soap to find the leak
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step 2 :Repairing the Leak
- Route out the hole on the tire with a reamer tool
- Place the plug on the split-eye hook tool
- Place rubber cement solution on the plug
- Stuff the plug into the tire as it sticks out
- Turn the split-eye tool until the plug begins to turn
- Pull the split-eye tool out quick
- Let the plug sit
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step 3 :Testing the Leak
- Fill up the tire to the correct pressure
- Test to make sure the plug is preventing leakage
- Cut the excess from the plug off with a razor blade
Tools needed
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Razor Blade / Gasket Scraper
Tire Plug / Patch Kit
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On the way in today, I hit something that had a nail in it and it flattened my tire, so I'm going to plug it. Obviously the wheel is off the vehicle, but you can do this when the wheel and tire are on the vehicle.
The first thing I'm going to do is find the leak. The air is totally out of the tire which means it's a big leak. I'm just putting air in the tire. You can hear it's a big enough leak. The first thing you do is you listen for the air coming out. That's the easiest way to find it. If you're not lucky enough to be able to hear the leak, you can use just some water with a little bit of soap in it, and you pour it on the tire.
Well, that leak is huge, so it doesn't really work. If you have a small leak hold on, let me do this: say we have a smaller leak; you can see that the soapy water will bubble up around the leak and it'll be easier to find it.
Obviously we have a big leak here. I'm going to use my 1A Auto Tire Repair Kit. I wish I had this with me when I hit the nail. I would have been able to do it right on the road.
First step, you find the leak, and then use this bit, and you want to route out the hole and get it cleaned out. Obviously you would remove the nail or whatever is in there with pliers first. Then we're going to take our other handle, which is the threading needle, and our repair.
Take our repair off and put it right in the middle of the threading needle. This is some rubber cement solution. I coat the repair with it, and then I am going to stuff the repair down into the tire so it's still sticking out a little bit. I'm going to turn it until I see that starting to turn, and then pull out quick.
Okay, I'm going to let this sit for just a little while. I'll cut this off with a razor blade so that it's the same level as the tread, and then we'll refill it. See how it works? I'm going to fill up the tire to pressure. All right, we're at 32 psi. I don't hear anything which is good.
A little bit of soapy water, and I don't see anything. A pair of pliers, I'm just going to lightly pull up on the plug just to give myself a little room and kind of just keep it steady to trim off the excess. I'm just using the pliers as a kind of a backstop so I don't cut into the tire as well. Then as the tire wears down, the plug will wear down as well.
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