I'm going to THIS GUY for my tire repairs!I treat it like patching a bicycle tube... or car tube (if you ever had non-tubeless tires in your life). I clean the tear/edge of the tear with da, then rough it up with a sanding drum on a dremel, then cut a piece of bicycle innertube large enough to cover the hole with 3-4mm beyond the hole, then I clean the patch up with DA, rough it up with the drum, then put a thin layer of ca on the the tire, then the patch and gently place the patch one while holding pressure while the glue cures. Once it's cured, I use the drum again to sand all the edges of the patch so they are smooth with the tire and don't catch on stuff.
I've done this quite a few times over the years and have yet to have the patch come off or the tear get worse.
I've never tried fixing a tear in the face of the tire, only the side walls. I guess if your really patient and bake the tire off the wheel, then do the same kind of patch from the inside, it may hold up for a while. Depending on the size of the hole your patching.
The last one I did was a sidewall tear in my proline 3.8" trenchers on my outcast when I lost it in a cartwheel and it plowed into a chain link fence. The tires went on the truck new a week or so before... I was annoyed.
The tear:
After patching:
That was 5 months and many bashes ago. I do run 4S though on my outcast.
I did the same with my E revo stock tire except on the face of the tire, still work wellI treat it like patching a bicycle tube... or car tube (if you ever had non-tubeless tires in your life). I clean the tear/edge of the tear with da, then rough it up with a sanding drum on a dremel, then cut a piece of bicycle innertube large enough to cover the hole with 3-4mm beyond the hole, then I clean the patch up with DA, rough it up with the drum, then put a thin layer of ca on the the tire, then the patch and gently place the patch one while holding pressure while the glue cures. Once it's cured, I use the drum again to sand all the edges of the patch so they are smooth with the tire and don't catch on stuff.
I've done this quite a few times over the years and have yet to have the patch come off or the tear get worse.
I've never tried fixing a tear in the face of the tire, only the side walls. I guess if your really patient and bake the tire off the wheel, then do the same kind of patch from the inside, it may hold up for a while. Depending on the size of the hole your patching.
The last one I did was a sidewall tear in my proline 3.8" trenchers on my outcast when I lost it in a cartwheel and it plowed into a chain link fence. The tires went on the truck new a week or so before... I was annoyed.
The tear:
After patching:
That was 5 months and many bashes ago. I do run 4S though on my outcast.
I know back in the day, racers would take two different tread pattern tires on the 1/10 ST's and cut them in half, then glue the halves together so they would create their own tread pattern. That was back in NiMH/brushed and nitro days... so not sure they were taking the punishment they do these days. I never saw it, just read about it many years ago.
Learn how to do from the old day riding bicycle to school 20 year ago. Mine is quite complicated. First because I didn't seal the rim holes so lot of water got in and stuck there, I had to take them out first because glue hates water. I vented hole on face, used hair dryer. Finally the inner surface got dry. Then I used small pad of bicycle innertube like you mentioned, clean both surface with alcohol, rough them up, apply 3M super glue on both sides, put the pad inside, gently press to hold them still for like 1 day. It was a bit tricky because you cannot press them hard together LoL, it has foam inside. For glue, I can only find 3M here, the one can be used for rubber.
Yeah, going at it from the inside gives you the best repair, but getting the tire off the rim is a chore.
So i said id do a update on this approach i did it on a set of backflips and have about 20 packs through them it hasn't came off yet just scuff up the rubber before you apply
:0 im going to do that i just need a simple bike tire tube(and ruin it lmao) and superglue it over the tear? My question is the glue cracking because rubber can stretch while CA glue doesn'tI treat it like patching a bicycle tube... or car tube (if you ever had non-tubeless tires in your life). I clean the tear/edge of the tear with da, then rough it up with a sanding drum on a dremel, then cut a piece of bicycle innertube large enough to cover the hole with 3-4mm beyond the hole, then I clean the patch up with DA, rough it up with the drum, then put a thin layer of ca on the the tire, then the patch and gently place the patch one while holding pressure while the glue cures. Once it's cured, I use the drum again to sand all the edges of the patch so they are smooth with the tire and don't catch on stuff.
I've done this quite a few times over the years and have yet to have the patch come off or the tear get worse.
I've never tried fixing a tear in the face of the tire, only the side walls. I guess if your really patient and bake the tire off the wheel, then do the same kind of patch from the inside, it may hold up for a while. Depending on the size of the hole your patching.
The last one I did was a sidewall tear in my proline 3.8" trenchers on my outcast when I lost it in a cartwheel and it plowed into a chain link fence. The tires went on the truck new a week or so before... I was annoyed.
The tear:
After patching:
That was 5 months and many bashes ago. I do run 4S though on my outcast.
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