Slime or not to Slime, that is the question!
Mike
to loose air, I am assuming along the bead of my stock alloys. Last fall I
had the same tire removed and the bead and rim cleaned twice! and it still
does the same thing today....along with 2 other tires. I have the car
parked next to the compressor so before every run I check all 4 tires. Not a
big deal but it is getting old.
I read a thread that Slime is not supposed to throw the balance off or wreck
the inside surface of the rims. Any thoughts?
Lanny Chambers
"Mike" <My91...@Yahoo.comedy> wrote:
> I have 3 tires that have a tendency
> to loose air, I am assuming along the bead of my stock alloys.
Why do you assume that? No one else is having problems with losing air
from stock alloys. More likely you have either bad valve cores or
punctures. Take a tire off the car and paint it all over with soapy
water--the fix will suggest itself once you find the leak.
--
Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
'94C
the alignment page:
http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html
Santos L. Halper
"Mike" <My91...@Yahoo.comedy> wrote:
I have used slime for my mountain bike tires for over 12 years. The
stuff really works. I used to get flats all the time but slime cut that
to 1/20th of the frequency. As far as cars go? I can't help you on
that one.
BTW, I never noticed any off-balanceness of my mb tires but you do have
to put the slime in then rotate the tire to get a good, even coating on
the inside.
Matthew Russotto
>to loose air, I am assuming along the bead of my stock alloys. Last fall I
>had the same tire removed and the bead and rim cleaned twice! and it still
>does the same thing today....along with 2 other tires. I have the car
>parked next to the compressor so before every run I check all 4 tires. Not a
>big deal but it is getting old.
I'd replace the tires before I put any goop in them. If the rim isn't
damaged, they should seal without any goop.
--
Matthew T. Russotto mrus...@speakeasy.net
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.
Chris D'Agnolo
shops are probably not real thrilled with opening up a wheel / tire to find
that 'slime' everywhere.
I'd work on locating the problem.
chris
92BB&T
Dave Ingersoll
and Off road Bikes....However, as for a Car tire, I would never put that in
there..Like Lanny said....put some soapy water over the valve stem
first...almost a definate there...if not put it all over the tire. Hope that
helps.
Dave
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Mike
again, I will buy 4 new tires which would have been needed sometime in the
future anyway. The valve stem was changed on the twice "fixed" wheel, not
to say it might not still be the problem. I didn't think the Slime idea
would be a good one for cars, but I thought I would ask. Thanks to everyone
for the replies!
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Dave Null Sr.
wrote in news:lanny-8F75AA....@newssvr22-ext.news.prodigy.com:
> In article <9JT5b.36132$hf1....@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
> "Mike" <My91...@Yahoo.comedy> wrote:
>
>> I have 3 tires that have a tendency
>> to loose air, I am assuming along the bead of my stock alloys.
>
> Why do you assume that? No one else is having problems with losing air
> from stock alloys. More likely you have either bad valve cores or
> punctures. Take a tire off the car and paint it all over with soapy
> water--the fix will suggest itself once you find the leak.
I had a major problem with leaking from my stock alloys. I tried
an interim solution of the sealing goo. It helped but was not
all that effective. Before the goo I was going from 32 to 25 psi
in a 24 hour period. The biggest problem was that the goo created
the famous speed related imbalance.
I've tried the latex stuff which the local tire shops
will spread on the rims, but that was not that effective
either.
At the end of the summer tire season I mounted the steel rims
and snow tires, sandblasted the alloy wheels, and repainted.
The losses now can be measured by season not hours.
For those of us in Outer Canuckistan, where the salt
flows freely in the winter, and some people dismount
and mount tires every equinox, the rims endure a bit
of a beating.