Tire Fail

3DCrawler

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Seen this on the WRFX 99.7 site and just had to post it. I about spit my Mt. Dew on the laptop laughing.
 

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The old BB powered silver/blue S-10 truggy that used to frequent the DR's back in the day... cut a tire on Peckerwood on Thursday, broke it down, stitched it with what looked like large ga. safety wire, booted it, slapped it back together and finished the weekend!

I've seen several LARGE Swampers/Boggers "repaired" since... but agree the bolts are a bit ghetto :rolleyes:
 
unbreakable wheeled with a 3/4 carriage bolt in the side of a 38" bogger for about a year and a half.....better than buying a new tire and it make sweet sparks when you spin it on a rock.
 
1stgenxxx said:
unbreakable wheeled with a 3/4 carriage bolt in the side of a 38" bogger for about a year and a half.....better than buying a new tire and it make sweet sparks when you spin it on a rock.
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That tire got more attention than alot of nice rigs on the trail, nothing short of amazing it held up like it did. I like the stitch job in the pic but someone needs to add a pic of Justins frankentire!
 
Looks like it's holding air. And yes I would do that if I had to. Mental note, put some extra bolts in the spares box!

My dad told me about "booting" tires way back in the first depression
 
IIRC, at the first ECORS race @ mt city, Michael Bowen cut a tire, pulled into the pit and either glued a patch on or (pretty sure) just overlapped the edges, we gooped the crap out of it and took some sheet metal screws out of my tailgate and used them to hold it together, worked fine for the rest of his race.

that reminds me - I'm still missing some screws on my tailgate...
 
GONOVRIT said:
That tire got more attention than alot of nice rigs on the trail, nothing short of amazing it held up like it did. I like the stitch job in the pic but someone needs to add a pic of Justins frankentire!
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Justin's tire is just what I was thinking about when I saw that pic...
 
We used to repair tractor tires like that all the time, we did put the nuts on the inside so it looked a little better, but it works well overall. Wouldn't trust it at highway speeds or anything, but at trail speeds if it's holding air it's a functional repair.
 
So I'm guessing there is a piece of tire on the inside working as a patch and then an inner tube to hold air? What keeps the bolts from rubbing through the inner tube?
 
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