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Identify Puncture & Understand Repair

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DIY Flat Tire Fix..Quick and Easy Tutorial

What happens here

The first step is to identify the source of the tire leak, typically a nail or screw embedded in the tire tread. The presenter explains that this DIY plug repair is a quick solution to get the tire holding air again, but recommends taking the tire to a professional tire shop for a proper internal patch later.

Goal: Locate the nail or screw causing the tire puncture and understand that the immediate plug repair is often a temporary fix.

Tools and materials

  • Cordless Drill (with screwdriver bit)
  • Pliers
  • Screwdriver
  • Slime Tire Tackle Tire Repair Kit

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to do is get this screw out there's a screw in here if it was a nail obviously you might just take a pair of pliers and pull it out you could take a pair of pliers and pinch the head of the screw and twist it out or use a screwdriver or a little dewalt drill so what we're going to do is take the screw out we're going to clean the hole out a little bit and we're going to replace it with a plug [Music] [Laughter] oh so folks if this is your first time the stoney ridge farm channel welcome to the channel we're on 150 acres here in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains of north carolina and we're building a first generation farm but along the way we're living a real life in real life things happen like this like this screw that's stuck in this tire right here so i bought this critter for 1100 bucks typically these things go for a lot more money i bought it off a college student who had some problems with it and he said he was just tired of it he just didn't want to fool with it it's got about 260 000 miles so i bought it for a song when i got it home i trailered it home when i got it home i found that this tire kept going down i couldn't figure out why the heck the tire was going down until i rolled it around and i found the screw let's get you in here a little closer as you guys can see plain as day there is a screw in there we've got a screwdriver we just so happen to have the right tool to take the screw out so all we're going to do if the head isn't worn off of a screw like this you can just take a screwdriver and this is a klein 11-1 i love love love this screwdriver but you can just take a screwdriver like this and simply unscrew it and you can hear the air here in just a second kind of fizzling out of there now we could do it with a regular screwdriver or we could use our dewalt screw gun i think this screw is going to be so small that it isn't going to matter we're just going to take it out real quick now we've got to start moving with a little bit of haste if this were a nail i'd take a pair of pliers and i'd pull it out this fix this is a repair and it could last for the life of the tire but i do recommend that if you do this repair that you make this a temporary repair and you take your tire into a tire dealership and let them patch it from the inside the proper way a lot of people roll around with plugs in their tires and it does them just fine but i recommend and i'm no expert but i recommend taking it in and they'll plug actually remove your…

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