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The 1A Auto T-Handle Tire Repair Kit includes everything you need to repair a leaking tire:
Features:
- Pistol grip handles for comfortable use of reamer and hook tool
- Repair tire leaks while wheel is still on vehicle
- For Auto, Truck and SUV applications
Dimensions:
- Reamer - 5.25 inches long
- Hook Tool - 5.25 inches long
- Plugs - 4 inches x 1/4 inch
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Item Condition:
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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly: that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
Okay, so you've got a leaking tire and as you can see here we've got a pretty visible issue. We've got a nail in the tire right here, so if you have a leaking tire you want to look for something like that. You also want to make sure if you find something like that that that's really your issue. You can get a nail in the tire or a piece of a nail and have it not even leak, but then you go after it and you think that's the problem and it ends up being something else, so I'm going to show you the easiest way to figure out if that's the problem.
So, I've got a bucket, some household dish soap; put a bunch of soap in the bucket, just kind of gently mix it with your hands. You don't want to make too many bubbles, and then you just pour it over your tire. I need more, okay. Then what you would do is look at where you poured the water and look for, you can probably see, the little soap bubbles bubbling up around it, and I actually could have used . okay, so that little white trail of white soap bubbles tells you, okay, I've got air coming out there. So, if you see a nail, that's the way you can confirm that that's where you are getting leaking from.
When you do that, the other area you just want to check is around the bead and both sides, and this is if you don't find the nail or if the nail you find doesn't seem to be leaking, check around the bead and also check around your valve stem. Many times your valve stems can go bad and leak.
Okay, to fix this nail, first I'm going to take my rubber cement or solution from my kit. I'm going to puncture it. This is called my reamer. I'm going to take some rubber solution, and put it right on there. Put that down for just a second. Pliers, needle nose or otherwise, pull the nail out. You want to note that this nail is straight in. Your nail could be in at any kind of an angle. You want to note how your nail is in there, because when you ream it, you want to ream it the same way. Be careful when this comes out because it could jet out. So then take your reamer, work it into the hole. Two things, you're putting a little bit of that rubber solution in there. You're prepping the hole. Leave that in there, take my needle, one of my patches, put the patch right in the middle so you basically have two equal sides, take a little rubber cement, just put a little bit on the end there, and make sure your patch is way down in the hook really well. Take your reamer and finish this, because you really want to clean out this hole, make sure this is going and out nice and easy. Once you have it going in and out nice and easy, pull it out. Put in your patch. Twist it in. It's difficult to put inside. You just want to be careful that when you get it to go you don't push too hard and push the patch all the way through, so keep pushing it in until there's about a half an inch coming out, give it a quarter turn, and pull it up quick. Then use a little trimmer or a razor blade and just trim the patch off the same level as the tire. That will basically work its way in and wear down with the tire. Obviously you'll want to check and re-inflate the tire to the correct pressure and take a little bit of water here to make sure. Okay, check to make sure no more bubbles, so we're all good.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
On the way in today, I hit something that had a nail in it and it flattened my tire, so I'm going to plug it. Obviously the wheel is off the vehicle, but you can do this when the wheel and tire are on the vehicle.
The first thing I'm going to do is find the leak. The air is totally out of the tire which means it's a big leak. I'm just putting air in the tire. You can hear it's a big enough leak. The first thing you do is you listen for the air coming out. That's the easiest way to find it. If you're not lucky enough to be able to hear the leak, you can use just some water with a little bit of soap in it, and you pour it on the tire.
Well, that leak is huge, so it doesn't really work. If you have a small leak hold on, let me do this: say we have a smaller leak; you can see that the soapy water will bubble up around the leak and it'll be easier to find it.
Obviously we have a big leak here. I'm going to use my 1A Auto Tire Repair Kit. I wish I had this with me when I hit the nail. I would have been able to do it right on the road.
First step, you find the leak, and then use this bit, and you want to route out the hole and get it cleaned out. Obviously you would remove the nail or whatever is in there with pliers first. Then we're going to take our other handle, which is the threading needle, and our repair.
Take our repair off and put it right in the middle of the threading needle. This is some rubber cement solution. I coat the repair with it, and then I am going to stuff the repair down into the tire so it's still sticking out a little bit. I'm going to turn it until I see that starting to turn, and then pull out quick.
Okay, I'm going to let this sit for just a little while. I'll cut this off with a razor blade so that it's the same level as the tread, and then we'll refill it. See how it works? I'm going to fill up the tire to pressure. All right, we're at 32 psi. I don't hear anything which is good.
A little bit of soapy water, and I don't see anything. A pair of pliers, I'm just going to lightly pull up on the plug just to give myself a little room and kind of just keep it steady to trim off the excess. I'm just using the pliers as a kind of a backstop so I don't cut into the tire as well. Then as the tire wears down, the plug will wear down as well.
We hope this video helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
