Well, I was on my way back home after a week of being out of town and was in a hurry because we needed to meet some friends for a supper. 40km outside of Saskatoon, I hear a wap-wap-wap-wap noise coming from the rear wheel well. I figured the tread started to separate and slowed down as I didn't want it tearing up my fender.... but the noise stopped. So I kept rolling for a little bit, no warning on the DIC about tire pressure. Speed up just a bit and wap-wap-wap... so I slowed right down and pulled over on the side of the highway and looked to see what the noise is. The back tire was getting low, the tread looks good but I did find this...
No tread separation.... but it was so flat.
I found a blury hex bolt head...well it wasn't blury to me but I didn't really want to spend more time on the side of the highway than needed.
Anyway, tried pulling the bugger out and it was tough when I got to the threaded section. But luckily, I also had vice grips and yanked the bolt out of the tire to find this.
Somehow this bolt, with a nut in it, made it's way onto the tire....which left a sizable hole! I have a Dynaplug tool but thought I would be pulling nails and screws, not a freaking bolt with a nut on it!!!
I figured, what the heck, lets see what the Dynaplug tool will do. Well, I had to almost wipe the tool on the side of the hole to get the plug to come out. By the 4th plug there was enough resistance that the plug would stay in the tire. Somewhere I heard 5 total plugs could be used so after the 5th one, I tried pumping up the tire but it wouldn't get above 7 psi as it was still leaking too much air. We called CAA for a flatbed but it was going to be over an hour. I figured, what the heck, I have three more plugs left... I put the last three in and turned on the compressor and it held air!!!
Once again blury, but there are 8 plugs in this hole!
I filled the tire to 30 psi and cut off the tail to the plugs. It still very slowly leaked air but I was able to drive 25 km at 80 km/hr before it hit 25 psi where I filled it to 32 psi and made it home from there with room to spare!
So, thank you to Brian and Dynaplug for making this tool so I could get home and only be 30 mins late. Absolutely amazing that it could fill such a giant hole and hold the pressure so I could get home..... now for those new tires I've been needing for a year.....
Oh! And Brian, I'll need some more refills.
No tread separation.... but it was so flat.
I found a blury hex bolt head...well it wasn't blury to me but I didn't really want to spend more time on the side of the highway than needed.
Anyway, tried pulling the bugger out and it was tough when I got to the threaded section. But luckily, I also had vice grips and yanked the bolt out of the tire to find this.
Somehow this bolt, with a nut in it, made it's way onto the tire....which left a sizable hole! I have a Dynaplug tool but thought I would be pulling nails and screws, not a freaking bolt with a nut on it!!!
I figured, what the heck, lets see what the Dynaplug tool will do. Well, I had to almost wipe the tool on the side of the hole to get the plug to come out. By the 4th plug there was enough resistance that the plug would stay in the tire. Somewhere I heard 5 total plugs could be used so after the 5th one, I tried pumping up the tire but it wouldn't get above 7 psi as it was still leaking too much air. We called CAA for a flatbed but it was going to be over an hour. I figured, what the heck, I have three more plugs left... I put the last three in and turned on the compressor and it held air!!!
Once again blury, but there are 8 plugs in this hole!
I filled the tire to 30 psi and cut off the tail to the plugs. It still very slowly leaked air but I was able to drive 25 km at 80 km/hr before it hit 25 psi where I filled it to 32 psi and made it home from there with room to spare!
So, thank you to Brian and Dynaplug for making this tool so I could get home and only be 30 mins late. Absolutely amazing that it could fill such a giant hole and hold the pressure so I could get home..... now for those new tires I've been needing for a year.....
Oh! And Brian, I'll need some more refills.
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