jsrusse11

i have a small nail in my MTR's. looks like a finishing nail. doen't look big enough to plug. is there another good way to plug that. doesn't leak very much at all. what can i do without taking the tire off the rim. is there anything worth doing.

evilcow

Plug it. Get a kit at wally world.

Victor

A finish nail is super small. If you can't get a plug in it then the tire will have to be removed from the wheel and a patch put on the inside.

AFRunner

Plug kits come with a tool to ream the hole to the proper size.

foxtrapper

You can try using rubber cement and no plug. Just coating a sewing needle and running in through the existing little hole. I'd be inclined to try that before I enlarged the hole for a conventional plug.

L33T35T 4Runner

one time when AAA came to our rescue when we had a flat tire... he found a small nail in the tire. he took it out, took out a set of bolts, found a bolt a little bigger than the screw that was in there, and screwed that bolt in the hole. he said that will last longer than thoes patches they put at professional shops. he still said we needed to get it fixed though. filled up the tire and sent us on our way.

GRNTACO

Doesn't Good Year cover something like that?? I would go to the place you bought them, they may fix it for free.

Fink

Yeah they should have a road hazard warranty on em...if not then just pluggin it yourself would be easy enough, or doin the bolt trick.

I have a 4" lag screw shoved in the sidewall of my BFG A/T, thats why I had to replace all my tires and I ended up just frontin the dough for some new BFG Mudders and a lift, overall that screw made my truck look pretty good!

Fink

jx94148

My past two sets of tires both got nails in them. I left them in and they held fine. I was wheeling a lot and always either airing up or down at least once a month so if it was slow leaking I wouldn't have noticed.

I put some of that green slime stuff in my roomate's Jeep's tire to stop a slow leak. Its still holding a year later.

Chi_San

I didn't think it was safe to fix sidewall holes. I mean, you could lose that tire in a hurry if that patch goes.

The fix-a-flat stuff in an can works pretty well, but it makes one hell of a mess. It might all run to one spot and make your tire off balanced for high speed driving, or you could have little bits of that stuff bouncing around in your tire.

My last set of tires had sidewall damage and flat spots. They got replaced. new tires have a 100k warrenty on them.

Bob_98SR5

...careful w/ the fix-it-flat junk:

http://www.tiredefects.com/fix-a-flat/Default.htm

in fact, my recommendation is not to use it at all.

bob