HELP!! Patch A Tires 9R22.5??

I ran a big crop sprayer for a week with the plug. It worked till I was able to fix it right.

I would not recommend to use the plug long term, as the tire guy said they can shrink with time, and could get a slow leak

 

The right way to do it is to take it off and have a tire shop fix it from the inside. Plugs work for a while...sometimes longer, but my experience has been fix it right and forget about it.

 

I carry a tire repair kit with me for emergencies but always have the tire repaired by a qualified shop as soon as possible.

 

All plugs eventually leak.

 

I carry a hot glue gun in the truck. After the tire shop puts a patch on the inside and remounts the tire, I park and warm up the hot glue gun. The end is tapered, so I jam it down as far as it'll go in the hole that was patched and fill the nail hole with glue- that way when it rains, water won't push the patch in and cause another flat. Keeps dirt and corrosion out, too.

In a couple of weeks it's usually hard to find the nail hole- the hot glue plug turns black and blends in with the casing.

 

maybe you should go to a shop that uses two piece plug patches.


To the OP, if you need to fix it to get you to the nearest place to fix the tire or remove it, then yes you can use those kits. But they are technically only supposed to be used for small lawn mower and 4 wheeler tires or used in an emergency as a bandaid to get you to the nearest place to properly fix it (dismount, drill out hole, buff liner, clean liner, glue, install 2 piece plug, cut off 1/4" above tread, reseal with pant on inner tube, remount on cleaned rim)

And remember you should only fix them within the tread section. Not the sidewalls.

 

The reason for not doing sidewalls is that the casing flexes so much that it will break any patch. We used these with very good results. Simple to use, take a rat tail file and insert into the nail hole. Buff inside of casing where the file came through, apply rubber cement and a little bit to the stem of repair patch. Pull the patch through with a pair of pliers. Remount tire and re-inflate. then using some dykes clip the plug off at level of tire tread.

At Complete Tire in Ellsworth we were able to patch opto a 3/8" hole.