hey everybody Sam here welcome back to our Channel I am sitting on a five gallon paint
can bucket next to a tractor with a flat tire today's video is going to be about whether
or not this little guy the sidewall seal by Glue tread is a gimmick or a lifesaver I'll
go ahead and start off saying that I don't have a lot of confidence that this is going
to fix the tire for me not necessarily because I think the product is not going to be any
good although that's still to be told I think it's going to be more because the location
of the puncture on the side wall and right here where the tread starts to develop I just
really think it's going to be hard for this patch to actually do anything that being said
though the point of this video is to test it out to see does it actually work is it
worth your money is a 28 dollar patch job going to help save you from having to buy
a brand new 650 higher I don't know let's find out this is the sidewall repair kit simply
cut to fit sidewall seal by Glue tread no need to remove tire that's great because these
things are huge and heavy over here on the back we can see the instructions how it works
step one apply the adhesive to a puncture or slice step two slap that patch on your
tire step three hold it for 30 seconds step four let it cure for one hour step five inflate
it and ride off into the sunset Victorious let's go ahead and open this guy up and see
what all we've got in here
it's nice a pretty good product packaging there I'm about to lose my glue tips though
all right so we've got our glue our adhesive and then some tips I'll put that in my shirt
pocket so hopefully I don't lose it in here we've got
stuff falling everywhere so you have the patch material itself this is really thick this
is probably eighth inch thick super good rubber patch very cool it's not just skinny stuff
for in you know inflatable tubes down the river that's a legit patch use less adhesive
more is not better apply it and said dot fashion cool okay some sandpaper no doubt that's to
stay in the tire and get it smooth and we also have
aha a little Devil's in the details here that simple five-step program turned into a damage
prep adhesive prep patch placement cure patch immediately spend more money inflate Tire
ah I knew they would get us it's not as easy as five steps it's four steps plus 11 plus
12a 12 B 18 B man it's like a college textbook don't they know it's a couple of country guys
out here trying to patch a tire in the field now you're gonna read this but I will all
right I've taken time to ingest the manual of patchology here and I'm ready to summarize
for you guys at least what I'm going to be doing with my tire issue I'm going to be applying
this entire patch to my tire because I've got a pretty big puncture kind of dry rot
really is what's going on and I'm gonna try my best to save it and get just a little more
life out of this tire so I can save money to buy new ones in that case my steps to apply
it is to actually put the adhesive on the patch itself I put it at the bottom first
hold it there just like this let it kind of set and cure add another row more more and
more I'm gonna kind of walk the patch up over the tire and cover the area as we go that's
what the instructions say at least now the Sandpaper they give you is to clean up the
tire make sure there's no sharp edges or anything like that so yes I'm gonna definitely hit
the tire with that make sure we got some clean areas probably also do the patch if I rough
this up a little bit I think it'll help the adhesive adhere to both things better and
hopefully give me a better patch overall so here's a look at the puncture area for the
tire it is a crack from dry front that apparently just popped over stress possibly driving a
little too fast maybe I hit a pothole or dip it in the ground either way this is the spot
that gave out on me I have a crack that runs this way but it also kind of goes with this
litter of a t-shape and starts to wrap around the tread a little bit this is an old Tire
there's a lot of dry rot around this so I'm not under the delusion that I patched this
and I'll be good Forever This is literally a patch I'm hoping that'll apply to allow
me to get the tractor back moving move it out of the way possibly use it here and there
very very carefully until I can save up the money about thirteen hundred dollars and buy
two new tires for this tractor I'm gonna use the end of my knife here to open up the actual
puncture get the side kind of exposed and I'm going to put some adhesive in this area
then I'll pull the knife out kind of finag them around push like that and try and hopefully
seal the inside of this major crack to cut the tip of the adhesive open I'm going to
be using what's really my favorite pocket knife it's an outdoor Edge it is a razor blade
knife just like a utility blade knife here but it's something that's super small fits
in my pocket and has a couple of tools quote-unquote tools built in a flathead screwdriver a Phillips
head screwdriver and then it's never applicable to me but I put on everything a bottle opener
like that's a tool but whatever it's one I've had for a couple years and I always keep it
in my pocket it's small it's pretty thin and I love the replaceable blades I don't have
to baby this I know if I break it off or whatever it's as simple as pushing the orange button
pull out my blade flip it around and load it back in it's really easy to use and it's
a pretty safe knife
the more I sand the more I see how this tire is totally shot but hey I've already bought
the patch I might as well see if I could use it to save
the day or not
this is going to be very difficult for this patch to actually work it's going to wrap
around the tread here so I think what I will do
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so I'm gonna go ahead and Mark cut that corner off so that'll work with that tread this one
here from there all right we'll try it hope it works I'm gonna kind of scratch my fingernail
on the tire kind of show me the outline of the patch just right there so I know where
to start applying the adhesive first since I need to apply it this way and then work
it out that way
all right moment of truth I'm going to start applying the adhesive to the patch like it's
telling me to do the instructions just like that and then we'll put the patch in place
I'm gonna go ahead and hold it up here that way I make sure I get my tread lined up like
I really really want to but then I'm going to hold it down here at the bottom just where
I put the adhesive now I'm going to work my way kind of pulling this back putting an adhesive
all the way up and over working my way this way with the patch
thank you
last thing I'm going to do is go ahead and put a good bead around where the patch meets
the tire just a little extra insurance the instructions don't specifically say to do
this but I'm going to just as a little hope that it does help it stick and work longer
well that's going to run all over the tire that's going to look terrible well some other
cracks we got going on right if you use the patch just to rub it in and this is why the
instructions say more is not better she'll find yourself rubbing all over the side while
you're tired and it's gonna look weird
well I don't know guys I don't know if this is going to be a fantastic win or a fabulous
fail but we have one hour to wait until everything is cured and finished then we can air it up
and see what really does happen so I'll see you guys then two hours later I have actually
let this thing sit for about two hours I got busy cleaning up stuff had to go run a few
errands and you know what otherwise give the glue plenty of time to set and cure now it's
time to air this up and see if the patch job actually worked for airing up this tire and
checking my work I'm going to be using what is our favorite and about the coolest air
pump we've ever owned we've had this for about a year year and a half one of you viewers
out there got it for us is on our wish list and back when I was working on my Ford Ranger
truck loved it have used it and still love it to this day it is cordless it runs off
of Craftsman batteries here on the back which is awesome because it's the same kind of cordless
tools I use it also has a plug for regular AC power and a 12 volt what's commonly called
cigarette lighter or 12 volt excess report power as well this thing is awesome I'm gonna
go to my workshop get a larger battery for this guy because this is a large tire pump
it up to about oh let's say 15 20 psi just enough to put some pressure on that patch
and let's see how it holds foreign
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ER valve okay one problem at a time
all right let's set our PSI
do 25.
it's on DC mugs word battery then we'll press the switch up to turn it on
foreign
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well the patch is not leaking but this is a new crack has appeared it's not the patch
okay so now the name of the game is race against the clock get the tractor started I'm going
to jump it off with our battery jumper it's been sitting for a while and get it moved
out of the way out of our driveway that way we can have access do some more work here
make it a Circle Drive and it'll just be out of the way talking and save my money and get
new tires so let me go ahead and do that before we lose all of our air I did not mean for
this video to be a tool tour or tour of tools but hey here's another we really like it's
a uh Instant Power brand portable lithium battery jumper I use this a lot for this our
four wheeler a lawn mower the Jeep whenever we have to start and just in general this
thing's been handy
foreign
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foreign
well guys we have one point of failure but two points of success so all in all our net
gain is a positive one for this project the patch worked the patch sealed it that's a
plus the tractor is moved out of the way it is where okay the truck may not like it being
over here but it's out of the weather where I want it to be and it is an area where I
can work on it later that's plus two the negative however is that while the patch worked the
tire said you know what that patch feels good here patch this spot too oh well I'm not going
to chase this thing down with patches I've got it out of the way what I'm gonna do now
is just squirrel my money away I don't know maybe sell a kidney and buy some new tires
for the tractor oh leaky mcleak the tire aside we can say wow I can say wow at that patch
it actually worked it actually did its job it's sealed on the area where I was really
skeptical it would and that's pretty amazing you can stick this in your back pocket or
in your tractor toolbox maybe I should also buy one or two of them just to have on hand
in the event I have another puncture with new tires oh my gosh that'd be terrible but
in the event I do I'll have the patch kit on hand and we can continue to rock and roll
you probably noticed like I did when I took the valve stem cover off to air up the tire
that apparently Schrader valve has left the chat that's added to the fixed list but I've
also noticed a lot of rust around the rim back there and it's kind of got me wondering
oh man I have to buy new Wheels mother thought is can I put tubes should I put tubes I probably
should shouldn't I yeah so when I get new tires I think I'm going to go ahead and also
spend the money to have the new tires tubed that way in the event the wheels start to
leak don't hold air as well at least there's a tube in place that should help get more
life out of the system I don't want to have to buy new Wheels along with new tires as
far as next steps I'm probably going to go ahead and take the wheels off the tractor
and prepare to haul them to the local AG Co-op out here and they are the ones that will swap
out the tires and everything for me they'll transfer the liquid ballast out of these into
some new ones and kind of handle everything for me I think at the same time it might be
good if I don't have too much project creep I should give this tractor a little bit of
attention I've got some things that need to be repaired it has the steering gearbox leaks
a little bit I have new seals might as well do that I have a new steering wheel might
as well do that of course hydraulic fluid and oil change might as well tune up why not
let's go ahead and just put some money in this thing right the reason I think about
that is this is currently winter time so it's kind of the down time for equipment usage
Outdoors but thinking ahead to spring summer and fall we have a lot of uses in store for
this tractor we have a brush hog that we're going to be using to finish cutting the last
bit of our field honestly that should have been done but when this thing sprung a leak
I couldn't finish because come let's say summer we're going to be doing hay production we're
going to be using hay balers and everything cutting the fields and producing Square Bell
hay when that comes along this tractor is going to be needed absolutely needed so I
figure why not here in the winter times probably the best time that I should go ahead do the
things I need go and do my maintenance and prepare it to be ready to go as soon as possible
I mean honestly I need to use it now scrape blade brush hogger that kind of stuff but
still come spring summer it's absolutely got to be running well guys hopefully you enjoyed
getting to see alongside me that wow this is not a gimmick that patch kit actually works
then again maybe you're a little bit bummed that old leaky mcgeek face of the tire over
there said you know what that patch feels pretty good but I'm gonna just start leaking
everywhere now it's time to replace me I'm ready to be turned into a Christmas wreath
out of the way hopefully you guys enjoyed this video it's been a little bit of time
outdoors with me even though it's January the weather's pretty mild and that's been
nice if you're interested in this tractor let me know I'd like to make some content
on it of course to show you guys but if there are specific things questions and things that
are interesting to you let me know and I'll try and put that in the next video that old
blue shows up in otherwise thanks for watching as always take care and we'll see you guys
next time on the homestead [Music]
press it hold it up press it a little bit more and apply the how in the world is that
going to make sense oh the truck speed driving on the road hey we have a lot of uses in store
for this tractor we have a brush hog we got to continue hugging hugging yeah we're gonna
hug our Fields love you field for airing up the tractor car yep tractor car hey I got
a car out here just a dude sitting on a bucket at his tractor with a camera and he's talking
to it nothing strange here guys nothing strange here
what do you think you gonna work hey down here is that gonna work good bad chicken work
what you think he's getting high on glue aren't you not a Huffer outworks that the patch the
patch works there's not much of a Cadence to that blah blah blah the patch works oh
hell man where am I at I'm so lost track number two oh they're hauling hay that's why hey
can you see him you can see him up up almost there he goes three round rolls no with that
truck this double stack or double wide is it is it is it is it oh yeah six round rolls
Holland hay you can tell it's winter time