Found my leak ... this is probably bad

[SwampSurvivor]

Since I had my mud tires swapped over to my Towncar wheels, one of the tires kept going "flat" every few days.

When inflating this morning, I heard air escaping somewhere. Ran my finger around the bead and found this.

This is what I get for not mounting them by hand!

 

[Rand]

sliced bead?

 

[JTK]

Probably won't know until they break the tire down. They can probably clean it up, lube the bead real good and you'll be good to go.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Originally Posted By: Rand
sliced bead?


Looks like they did get a chunk out of it.

I mounted the spare by hand - same tire and wheel - and I did take a small piece of rubber (much smaller than this) out and it's been fine.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Debeaded the tire and there's nothing missing out of the bead. Not sure.

Pulled it out and reinflared the tire and now have a bead leak elsewhere.

 

[Nick1994]

Originally Posted By: Miller88
Debeaded the tire and there's nothing missing out of the bead. Not sure.

Pulled it out and reinflared the tire and now have a bead leak elsewhere.


Get some really good glue or roof caulking and glue up the bead leak

 

[CapriRacer]

The bead toe may have been sliced. That is sometimes hard to see. Nevertheless, not good. Even at the toe, there is air retaining rubber - and if it gets sliced, it's like it's not there at all.

All I can say is that people don't use enough lube when mounting tires. There is plenty of opportunity to damage the beads, even for the experienced guy.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Interesting development. The tire in the picture was one of the 4 I had walmart mount. The spare, I mounted by hand.

I didn't bother cleaning the wheel bead surface when I mounted the spare - as such, it would go flat in a few hours.

I put the spare on in hopes to bring this one to walmart. for some reason, on the vehicle, the spare holds air?

At some point, I will need to bring this one over to get it sealed.