I'm a fairly new owner of a King Quad that I used for hunting this year. Quad did great!! I got out in the country many miles from roads and started to worry about flat tires!? Can anyone tell me is that something to worry about and what do you do about it, since we don't carry spares? I got a flat kit from Cabelas is that enough?

 

well it depends on what kind of puncture you get. a simple plug will fix a hole on the tred portion easy make sure ya put glue on but a sidwall is a whole differnt story you get a sidewall punture and yer in deep sh*$ those are really hard to fix i got one in my stock tires and well i had to take it to 2 differnt tire places to see if they could fix it they had to put 4 plugs and a lot of glue to seal the hole but i had my tires aird down ALOT so my fault just be carefull

 

A tubeless tire repair kit's a good idea, maybe an aerosol "Fix-a-Flat" can; some ATVers carry 12-volt air compressors (I've never seen a bicycle pump in an ATV toolset, but why not?).

Do you have a lug wrench, in case you have to take the rim and casing somewhere to be fixed?

Tree Farmer

 

I have had good luck running slime in my tires.

 

I agree with the other replies. In fact I do have a bicycle foot pump in my tool kit ($5.97 from Wal-Mart). As JB_450S stated, using "slime", which is a common name for many different brands of tire sealant is the best thing you can do. The main advantage this provides is that most small punctures from thorns and such will be sealed by the slime, without you ever even knowing it. The great part is, many of these holes are small, and are actuatlly enlarged if a plug is used. Also, the slime will usally seal a leak that develops from dirt or debris working into the tire bead. I have 12 tires (1 '00 Grizzly and 2 '99 Bayou 220's). I have only had 2 flats (same tire), one from a large locust thorn, easily fixed. Second was a fatal sidewall gash inflicted by a teeage female cousin hitting a sharp end of a ditch drainage pipe.

A trick I have used since I had a Big Red 3-wheeler in high school is to carry very short sheet metal screws of varying shaft diamters and a tube if silicone type sealant(could also use rubber glue like that in most flat repair kits). I fixed the hole from the 4 inch long locust thorn with a screw. Just cover the threads with a liberal amount of the sealant, and squeeze some into the hole if possible, and drive in the screw. The shaft size depends on how big the hole is. In the time it took for me to pump up the tire with the foot pump, the sealant had set enough that it held and I drove off. The fix was still holding 6 months later when I trashed the tire because of the fatal sidewall gash. Usually you will never know the screw is there since most puntures occur between the tread lugs, so the screw head does not stick out past the tread. I may get some diagreement on this method, but I tried it the first time because is was the only thing I had available, and I have stuck with it.

Yammer_Hummer (2000 Grizzly, still stock to the bone)

 

I have used screws in my car from time to time, especially when it's 2 a.m. and time to go to work!!

 

I think Fix-a-flat or what ever it is called and alote of the air in a can with the stuff to seal the tire can eat the rim the slime works good I would put that in and that will stop most of the thorn holes and take that kit you got and it would be good to take a air pump (since you have lots of rack space unless you carry lots of stuff) the ones with the quick connect (not screw-on tip) is nice not a must (if you have a power outlet you can be lazy and take a electric pump) if you do get a BIG slice stick lots of plugs in and hope for the best.

 

Don't use Fix-A-Flat as it will eventually dry out. Get some "Green Slime" about 16oz will do it and ya put it in your tire, it will close holes 1/4" dia. and never dry out for the life of the tire, the stuff is amazing and worth the money. You still need something to air your tire up. Also, most stock tires are 2 ply, when you buy new tires, they make them 4 and 6 ply, and are less punchure proof.