| Author | Message | ||
     99savage |
Probably an old question. Have a slow leak in rear tire - Maybe 5 psi/day now (slowly getting worse - 2 mos ago was 5 psi/week)) Have not found any nails, valve stem leak, et-all. Question: Anybody have any problem w/ using "Fix-A-Flat", "Slime" or other miracle elixir for the next couple of thousand miles? | ||
| Dio |
I'd advise against it. Find out where the thing is leaking with some soapy water and about 40 psi in the tire. A liner seperation or some other malady can cause potentially fatal outcomes! Fix-a-flat, slime, etc. work great in kid's bike tires, wheel barrow tires and hand trucks, but not advisable in motorcycle tires. | ||
| Froggy |
Plus its a huge mess when you change the tire. +1 to the water trick, at my dads shop we have a large tire shaped bucket, we submerge whole wheels to find the leaks | ||
| Rays |
I'd go for the water trick as well - I had a leak in my rear Sync on the Uly and it turned out to be a single strand of a steel wire brush that had worked its way right through the tyre! I eventually located it with soapy water brushed on as the wheel was spun. | ||
| Teeps |
Froggy Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 Plus its a huge mess when you change the tire. +1 on that; back in the day, we doubled the walk-in price to repair or replace a tire or tube that had such contamination inside. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Hasn't it also been reported this stuff will aggressively attack aluminum as well? | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Find it like they say with soapy water and then plug it, inflate and forget it until the tire wears out. |
