Good affordable tire patch kit?

With ether you have to be careful. Best if tires mounted on the Truck. I’ve only done a few times. Sprayed about 4 or 5 seconds into rim/ tire, make a trail diwn side of tire, and a few feet away on the ground. Light it up. After it seals. Air it up. I was surprised, it actually works.Best experiment using as little as possible, at first. Also spray near ground, as a fire will be burning on the outside of tire, for a few seconds

 

Best advice. I’ve only done it, when in a jam, with a leaking tire that had lost its seal. Instead of running with a flat.A bead blaster isn’t too expensive. Much better and safer. Still need to cage tire somehow while airing up. Don’t trust one. They do sometimes blow out, I’ve heard it called a zipper blowout. Very dangerous, tire that’s been ran flat is especially vulnerable to a blowout. They sometimes make a popping sound while airing, before blowing, but not always. Not worth your life.

 

IMO it’s hardly worth it. Keeping a spare, mounted on a rim. And tools to change it, is one thing. Learning to safely change and air up tires isn’t Rocket Science, I did it for one Summer, when I was 17 yrs old. I met a Driver that had a permanent indented forehead. Another Guy at the shop diwn the road died from a tire exploding, no cage. I had a 17” tire blow with only 30 lbs of air, almost lost all my fingers. It’s dangerous work, need to study the Pros, and learn from them first. Utube isn’t a good place to learn. Safety first. It’s just not worth saving a few bucks.

 

I stopped to help a driver mount his spare tire on wheel, he all/ready had blow out off rim and had a long screw driver trying to get it over rim i grab my long tire bar out of head board and he made fast work of it but he sprayed way too much ether in tire when he bent over with a cig liter i spoke up just as his hat blew 10 feet in air, but the tire had 10lbs of air showing on gauge, put wheel on truck inside pos. and got air line to stay on by its self and stood in ft. of his truck talking till air dryer popped off a few times when he was bleeding off extra air it stunk of raw ether bad?

 

For $1150 you can get 23 tires repaired ($50 each). Add in the cost of the necessary tools for mount/dismount.... it's so much cheaper just to let a tire monkey do the job.