EMERGENCY TUBELESS
TYRE REPAIRS
Equipment required
Tubeless repair kit and a ground
sheet.
Procedure
Dismount
the tyre and locate the injury and inspect for extent of the injury.
- Remove the foreign matter. Taking
care as the object may be sharp.
- Mark the area with chalk.
- Squeeze a small amount of cement
onto the injury (to lubricate). Clean and rasp the hole with the
probe/rasp tool. Repeat this procedure several times until the hole
is clean.
- Select the appropriate size string
for the injury.
Centre
the string in the middle of the eye of the insertion tool.
- Firmly push the insertion tool through
the cleaned hole. Continue until 20mm of the string remains outside
the tyre.
- Slowly rotate the insertion tool
'14 of a turn.
- Slowly pull insertion tool out of
the hole.
- Cut off any excess string as close
as possible to the tyre.
- To complete this repair, apply a
patch to the inner wall of the tyre.
THIS IS A TEMPORARY REPAIR
METHOD AND SHOULD ONLY BE USED IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS WHEN OFF
ROADING OR OUT IN THE FIELD.
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