I cut the sidewall on rear Swamplite. Anyone have experience patching these? I don't think a tube would hold up without getting pinched.

 

I have ridden for a couple trips with a sidewall plug... You said it was a tear? I have seen 3 plugs in one sidewall in one hole and it held up but i wouldn't recommend it on a long trip

 

Use both , a indside patch with a tube for backup.

 

In general, sidewall damage is not supposed to be "fixable", at least from a strictly technical standpoint. On a car, it is illegal to repair sidewall damage (or so I've been told... never pulled out my handy law book to verify) because of the high re-failure rate.

That said, I would agree with TLC... if you are going to try to fix it, a patch AND a tube is probably your best bet.

Not to be mr. negative, but I wouldn't expect it to last long... I hope it does if you try it. I'd love to see a follow up after a few test runs if you do it.

 

I bet it holds up well, ATV tires hold what? 5 psi tops.

 

an inside patch of the proper type will hold a sidewall together. (have used them on big truck tires before) just make sure you clean the area real good and pretreat the crap out of it.

 

i've been running on a side plug for 3 months. havent lost any psi and i hit some hard trails. mostly rock. you'd be surprised what a well done plug could do.

 

Do you have a truck tire shop than can vulcanize the inside. That would fix it up well.

 

I was just about to suggest the same thing as Jeff did about vulcanize proceedjure , there use to be a few big tire centers in my hometown that could repair tires with small holes in the tread and sidewall of tire in the late 50's till the early 70's with great results ; however i don't know of anyones that do this anymore mainly because they make more profit selling new tire's now day's !

But like TLC , jchunn and eggenz7 i agree that the inside patch and tube would holdup for small holes but i don't know how good it would work on cut's in any area of a tire !...........

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: *5 J's*

Do you have a truck tire shop than can vulcanize the inside. That would fix it up well.</end quote></div>

What is vulcanizing is it expensive???is it permanent??