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Prepare Puncture Site for Patching

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Fix a flat tire the EASY WAY!

What happens here

First, the presenter cleans the area around the puncture with a rag to remove dirt and debris. He then uses a multi-tool's knife blade to carefully widen the existing hole in the tire sidewall, creating a suitable opening for the adhesive applicator. After applying a small amount of glue to the open hole, he uses a piece of sandpaper from the kit to lightly abrade the tire surface around the puncture, preparing it for the patch application.

Goal: The puncture site is cleaned, expanded, and sanded to ensure proper adhesion of the patch.

Tools and materials

  • GlueTread Adhesive Applicator
  • Multi-tool (with knife blade)
  • Rag
  • Sandpaper

What they say

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we got all the dirt and debris most of the time when you puncture a tire you're gonna have a big muddy mess right here so we'll clean this up real good and this tire is going flat for sure here is the patch kit and inside the patch kit it just opens up so it's a reusable patch kit basically all the instructions are right here it just tells you to apply the adhesive to the puncture site which is what we'll do and apply the patch to the tire hole for 30 seconds and let it cure for an hour for off-road use only here okay guys these are the tips so i think you have one two three four five tips so you can do five patch repairs here this is the patch these are these are all the patches there's some big patches little patches then there's some sandpaper in here too so right in here is our little sandpaper and that's how we'll prep the tire and this is the glue the glue tread glue awesome our tire is good and flat now here is the hole what we want to do this is a gerber center drive this is one of my favorite little multi tools we use on the farm we want to open this hole up ever so slightly we'll zoom in and get you a little close up then we're going to take our little applicators right here and we're going to apply some of the glue into the tread there we'll start by removing one of the glue tread applicators we'll take the lid off and it is reverse threaded i do believe let's see maybe come on josh you can do it yeah yeah it's reverse threaded so guys don't twist it the wrong way it's reverse threaded there we go that's the cap now we'll install the applicator and all you got to do is just kind of slide that on right there just slips into the little hole we'll take our knife and we're going to open this little hole up all right so we'll take our knife our sharp edge just like this we're gonna apply the glue to seal this hole up right here okay probably gonna get a little glue on our knife too i feel it they say don't use too much glue okay make sure we're getting a good drip here there we go i'm gonna open that guy up just a little bit apply some glue and close it okay we'll put a little bit more glue right here on the outside just like so now we're going to wipe away the excess glue next thing we're going to do is take our little sandpaper pad that came with the kit and i can still see a little bit of glue right there there we go we'll take our sandpaper and we'll prep the area real good we want it to be kind of rough but kind of smooth you want to take off…

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