Inner tubes on Kawasaki Mule?

Yeah it's not meant for road vehicles, especially ones that are designed for high speed use. Slime for low speed off road stuff is a great use for it.

 

None of these sealers can be used in a vehicle with TPMS either...not supposed to in highway tires anyway, but I've done it on some older stuff, it works fine, you just can't use too much of it

 

I've heard the same, a few times. But as brenndatomu said, that has to smell to high hell if you ever need to open it up.

Slime isn't stinky at least. Does your bayou have the original odd sized wheels on it? Tires for old bayous are a pita to find and are way more $ than then need to be. I swapped a 1" bigger wheel size with common ATV tire size ( takeoffs from a newer kawi brute force) for a quick fix and upgrade to aluminum wheels. I got those for WAY less than new tires on the old rims and no tire mount costs. Bolt on and go.

 

Resurrecting this to bring to closure. Tire shop cannot patch these from inside, said the tire carcass is not thick enough to burnish the inside and patch. Ordered the tubes and hopefully I’m no longer airing up every morning before going out to get something accomplished!

Thanks to all for the input

 

That sounds like hog wash to me. These types of plug patches are easy to use. Should be no problem on your size tire. You don't have to sand/grind down into the rubber more than to just rough up the surface.

 

Well, that could very well be true! I’m not a tire guy so took them at their word. Could be, however that they just didn’t want to fool with them? I’ve been a customer there for over 30 years but the current manager is the son of the original owner and he has changed some of the operations around. It will be a sad day for me if I have to look for a different shop as I’ve been very pleased with them with tires and suspension work.. getting too old and cranky to start over with a new place

 

Maybe just wanted to sell you new. Keep an eye on 'em.

 

Well, I did ask them about tubes and they said they thought they would be about $45 each. I ordered 4 of them online for $20 each. Will the quality be the same? I will not know until I get them installed

 

Well, I received the tubes recently and yesterday was install day. One son and oldest grandson came over to assist the old guy. It took about 2-1/2 hours to remove, break beads, put in tubes and remount. Should have been an hour tops but needed to use the tractor front loader bucket to break the beads and then found more buried wire, thorns, etc when carefully checking the inside of the tires. These could have been leaking too but weren’t apparent from the outside of the tires. Removed all of the old plugs and all looks to be AOK now. Haven’t checked the tire pressures yet today but am pretty confident they will be fine. The tubes were from TYK and ended up being ~$80 delivered. Shipped quickly too.

 

All for a good time


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Well, the Mule is used here at our farm and I wish that I had bought it or something like it 25 years ago.
The tubes did the trick and no more airing up every day