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4x4 Related Groups => Tech Talk => Topic started by: whitefang on October 25, 2013, 04:37:55 PM

Title: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: whitefang on October 25, 2013, 04:37:55 PM
hey all,
i have a bfg mud terrain KM1 tire that is harder and harder to come by these days.
it holds air without a problem but has a big gash in the tread.
can it be fixed?

http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q615/whitefang101/004_zps9980058b.jpg

http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q615/whitefang101/005_zpse1357bad.jpg
Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: AV.NINE on October 25, 2013, 04:49:50 PM
Gotta ask how that happened?
Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: whitefang on October 25, 2013, 04:55:49 PM
not sure exactly how that happened.
bought the five tires and rims as is.
the spare was the same tire so i figured i was buying four tires.
i assume a high speed accident because one of the rims was bent and had a drum brake and axle end still attached to it (not the rim with this tire)
Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: JackstandJohnny on October 25, 2013, 10:13:35 PM
that's a gooder.

run it as a spare. call it good
Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: morerpmfred on October 25, 2013, 10:44:56 PM
Have melted an oversize tire before by the exhaust pipe underneath.
Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: BUKI on October 26, 2013, 12:44:35 AM
Have melted an oversize tire before by the exhaust pipe underneath.

Lmao. Your telling me couldn't smell it;). Or maybe you thought your jeep was doing lots of burnouts. Andy you rock


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Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: whitefang on October 27, 2013, 05:55:29 PM
that's a gooder.

run it as a spare. call it good

I would like to run it as a spare, but in this scenario my spare would have to run the same distance as my other tires.
not just from Mclean back to Calgary.
more like from Calgary to Montreal, or Vancouver, etc
Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: JackstandJohnny on October 27, 2013, 10:58:59 PM
on a 95 XJ?

i'd be worried about a lot more things on a trip from montreal to Calgary.........

if its that big of an issue buy new tires............
Title: Re: Can this tire be fixed??? vulcanized??
Post by: whitefang on November 02, 2013, 07:50:00 PM
these are new (to me) tires. 4 are good. this one is a spare.
you should have seen the old tires!
and they took me to vancouver and back!
in my 95 xj! 8)