Caught a nail in my ET Streets...

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Caught a nail in my ET Streets... Is this repairable? The guy at my local Tire shop doesn't know. Anyone had this problem?

 

maverick0716

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You might have to run a tube. Patches sometimes don't stick very well to the liner of a bias ply tire.

 

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Damn, how new are the tires?

 

90mustangGT

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The tire liner I don't belive is any different in bias ply and radial, when properly patched, it should hold. I have fixed many bias ply tires and never had an issue, they were bobcat tires, but same thing as far as construction.

 

78cobra347

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M/Ts are a strange rubber, glue does not stick,but there is a patch that requires no glue it has a rubber nib sticking out. looks like a nice hard nipple on a tit.
ckeck around some tire shops they must have some, i have 1 in my Et street right now, its a inside plug kinda thing.

 

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In my dad Goodyear slick. 32x14 had a nail in it. We pluged it. It last a whole season. Racing every weekend going 9.04@149. Then after the season we changed it. At the time I didn't think it was a good ideal. But it work. He cut the plug as close to the tires he could get it. Then drove around and did little burnouts to see if it would hold it did. That not the best way to test it but my dad is crazy.

 

Blk91stang

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90NotchBack said:

In my dad Goodyear slick. 32x14 had a nail in it. We pluged it. It last a whole season. Racing every weekend going 9.04@149. Then after the season we changed it. At the time I didn't think it was a good ideal. But it work. He cut the plug as close to the tires he could get it. Then drove around and did little burnouts to see if it would hold it did. That not the best way to test it but my dad is crazy.

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Better than finding out going 149mph at the end of the track...

 

maverick0716

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90mustangGT said:

The tire liner I don't belive is any different in bias ply and radial, when properly patched, it should hold. I have fixed many bias ply tires and never had an issue, they were bobcat tires, but same thing as far as construction.

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I've fixed a ton of bobcat tires as well as a few slicks. They are not similar in construction at all. The inside liner in the drag tires is just sprayed in lightly...if you buff it at all you will be buffing polyester cords, which isn't good...they fray and there is no way a patch will stick. He might be able to just clean the area on the inside where the hole is and put some vulcanizing glue on and stick a tube patch.....it might work.....maybe.

 

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I think that the plug is the best suggestion I've seen so far.

 

90NotchBack

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Yea but the crazy thing about it was he where in a hotel parking lot at 2:00am. We raced the day before and loaded up and went to the hotel because we where racing the next day at a different track. Well, when we got there the tire was flat. Well, we plugged it backed if off and drove around the parking lot doing burnout and dry hops. We all where siting in the motorhome watching him. Back then I didn't have a video but if would have been great footage. Just imagine this car driving around a hotel parking lot.

 

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I don't think it is safe to patch a slick. When a friend of mine got a nail on his ET streets, none of the shops around here wanted to touch it.

 

flyinghi3

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i ran tubes i my et streets. i ran over a nail once and had to replace the tube. they didnt patch the inside of the tire.

90mustangGT- the inside of ET streets are not the same as a radial. there is no real liner inside the tire for a patch to stick to.

the inside of bobcat tires are not even close to ETstreets.