Leaky Wires :(

[ant]

One of my new 20's has a leaky spoke  

Got the tyre off it today and it has been damaged by whoever put the tyres on. If you pump it up (40psi) its flat within the hour.

anyway heres a pic of the damage, its the rubber inner spoke seal luckily not the hard outer spoke seal.

 

So what do you reckon i should fix it with?

I was thinking of some kind of silicon with a car punture type patch over the top

[chewy]

cut the area out and  clean it   , use tiger seal thats wot i used on my 20,s when i had a leaky spoke and its been fine ever since    

[ant]

chew do you mean... just cut the damaged section out?

[BIGPERM]

ive used bead sealer over the top before now,didnt fancy cutting it out, then lots of duct tape to stop it happening again....thats defo been caused by a tyre lever bar used for fitting

[chewy]

chew do you mean... just cut the damaged section out?

yeah thats right i cut it out on mine right down to the rim and problem spoke  dereased it and then  plenty of  tiger seal  and leave it to go off  fo a couple of days ,, its a panel adhesive /sealer and strong as you like

[ant]

cheers chew...... your right about that tiger seal stuff i used it to bond blues sideskirts on many moons ago.

Will get some and give it a go, i saw filthy fil on Sunday at dubfreeze and he said the same

[HOLLYW$$D]

Yeah or i swear by SikaFlex,similar to Tiger Seal,a bodyshop fave,takes about a fortnight to get it off ya hands though

[pete]

had it done to me, hence the fukked tyres incident that fukked me off all weekend durin the max power shoot, useless cnuts.

[ant]

How did you fix yours petey?

[pete]

i had the luxury of rollin on 13's so i could get inner tubes, altho im sure in the past ive just got a company to paint a shed load of tyre seal over the damaged bit, then maybe some duct tape, and it was fine!

[Chops]

Any body tried to fix the hard-outer spoke seal, the stuff that looks like body filler??
I've got to get it off to try and sort my dodgy spokes and i've  been wondering what to use to re-seal it

[ant]

Any body tried to fix the hard-outer spoke seal, the stuff that looks like body filler??
I've got to get it off to try and sort my dodgy spokes and i've  been wondering what to use to re-seal it

When the tyre was coming off i was praying that the outer spoke seal was ok............... must be fixable tho chops!

[Chops]

All the nipples are seized and some of the spokes are loose so if i can't get them freed up the wheels are useless anyway.
I suppose i shouldn't worry about the air leaks just yet

[arnilincoln]

me and colin repaired his 20s with mini tubes cut into a band then stretched round the sealer portion of rin n sealed the edges with windscreen cold seal as we tried sikkaflex n they still leaked slowly he now dosent loose any pressure at all    

[ant]

Tyre back on and holding pressure  

i've got a few more weeks till they go the audi (until they salting the roads) so i will to keep an eye on the pressure.