Slow leak

[Top Cat]

Well I now have a tube in my front tire.
Could not get the bead to stop leaking.
I don't remember hitting any pot holes that would bend the wheel.:shrug:

[blowndodge]

It's like the Depends your wearing now. Just a safety precaution Tim! :tehe:

[fish]

no pot holes:hmm: come to my area, we also have speed bumps

[Monkeyman]

Did you clean up the bead (on the wheel)? Just the slightest bit of corrosion will cause a slow leak. I'd take the tire back off and grind the bead.

[sodbuster]

Maybe you have another arrow head in the tire.

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Could be those foreign made tires you run. :lmao:

[jandreu]

So how did you handle the valve? Will the tube valve fit thru the hole in the rim OK. I have a bean leak on my rear tire that is driving me crazy and I may go with a tube.

[Yellow Jacket]

Could just be something with the tire. When it needs to be replaced I would try to go back to tubeless.

[ndbigfish]

Is the valve core tight?

[Top Cat]

It's like the Depends your wearing now. Just a safety precaution Tim! :tehe:
Well that is one way to look at it Brad. :D

Did you clean up the bead (on the wheel)? Just the slightest bit of corrosion will cause a slow leak. I'd take the tire back off and grind the bead.

I did not. The guy who I have do my tires did it twice and still had the slow leak.

Maybe you have another arrow head in the tire.

Nope, that was a pretty big hole. :yep: This was just a slow leak at the bead.

Could be those foreign made tires you run. :lmao:

Yeah but they are quiet, not like the screamin E-3s you run. :tehe:

So how did you handle the valve? Will the tube valve fit thru the hole in the rim OK. I have a bean leak on my rear tire that is driving me crazy and I may go with a tube.

I had the shop where I bought the tube do it. I didn't watch the guy do it.
He said he has a few guys come in that are going on long trips and they have him put tubes in their tires. I don't know why they would want that. Cindy and I rode 335 miles today and it seems to be working OK.

Could just be something with the tire. When it needs to be replaced I would try to go back to tubeless.

The tire I had on there was leaking and it had 18,000 miles on it so I put on a new tire. Leak was still there. I believe it is the rim.

Is the valve core tight?

That was the first thing I checked.

[ndbigfish]

Maybe the shop that changed the tire bent the rim slightly. I had a co-worker that had a rim bent during a tire change. He spent most the time riding slow in town and never noticed the problem. Recently he took the bike up to freeway speed and noticed a wobble. Unfortunately for him the shop has closed and his out a rim. I didn't know this was even possible.

[Top Cat]

Maybe the shop that changed the tire bent the rim slightly. I had a co-worker that had a rim bent during a tire change. He spent most the time riding slow in town and never noticed the problem. Recently he took the bike up to freeway speed and noticed a wobble. Unfortunately for him the shop has closed and his out a rim. I didn't know this was even possible.

Your not helping my confidence in my tire changer. :D

I didn't know you could bend a wheel changing a tire either.
I know you can nick the wheel as that has happened before.

[yoda]

Just out of curiosity, how do you know it was the bead? Doing a dunk test or using soap solution should find where it is coming from. The tube solution is fine, but I would want to know for sure if it was the rim having a porous spot on it, some corrosion or damage at the bead, a bad valve stem or a pinhole in the tire. At this point you will be using tubes on that rim from here on out, if you don't figure out where the problem is.

[Top Cat]

I know it is the bead because I put the bike up on my jack with the Idaho Jack Adapter :tup: and slowly turned the wheel while spraying the tire with Windex. When I got to the spot on the bead it bubbled.
Using a tube in the tire from here on out is not a problem to me.
I don't want to spend a ton of money on a new wheel and if I buy on from a salvage yard I may end up with a wheel that is no better than the one I got now.

[ponch]

If you have a dial indicator gauge, you could measure runout and see if it is bent. I have one, but we live too far apart. >: Now another possibility is porosity and the rims are aluminum. I Never liked tubes...

[Top Cat]

If you have a dial indicator gauge, you could measure runout and see if it is bent. I have one, but we live too far apart. >: Now another possibility is porosity and the rims are aluminum. I Never liked tubes...

It is definitely the wheel. Wheather it is bent or a porosity problem I don't know.
But the tire I had on lost air so I put the new tire on and it also lost air.
That is when I checked to see where the leak was. It was in one spot on the wheel bead.

[ponch]

It is definitely the wheel. Wheather it is bent or a porosity problem I don't know.
But the tire I had on lost air so I put the new tire on and it also lost air.
That is when I checked to see where the leak was. It was in one spot on the wheel bead.

Did you ever use tire sealer in the tire? That stuff can cause hell with mag wheels.

[Top Cat]

No, don't like that stuff.
Carry a plug kit and compressor for all the good it did me in Ohio after the National. >:

[cactusjack]

No, don't like that stuff.
Carry a plug kit and compressor for all the good it did me in Ohio after the National. >:

It's not going to do you any good with a tube. :D

[ponch]

No, don't like that stuff.
Carry a plug kit and compressor for all the good it did me in Ohio after the National. >:

Did you inspect the rim when the tire was off? If so, was it marred at all? I have to wonder if your tire changer fouled something up.

[ponch]

It's not going to do you any good with a tube. :D

No shit. I got two flats with my KZ1000 and the tire deflated real quick. Luckily both times I was going slow, noticed it and stopped.

[Hacksaw]

put a car tire on it, problem fixed! :lmao:

[ponch]

put a car tire on it, problem fixed! :lmao:

That's an answer to a question TC isn't asking.

[Top Cat]

No, don't like that stuff.
Carry a plug kit and compressor for all the good it did me in Ohio after the National. >:

It's not going to do you any good with a tube. :D

I know but I have roadside assistance from AMA.

Did you inspect the rim when the tire was off? If so, was it marred at all? I have to wonder if your tire changer fouled something up.

The tire I had on there had 17,000 miles on it. I check the pressure before every ride. It developed a slow leak. Again, this tire was on there for 17,000 miles before the slow leak started. I didn't check it to see where it was leaking as I had a new tire in the garage ready to go on when this one wore out. As long as my tire guy had to take the tire off anyway I decided to just have him put on the new tire. When I got it home the next day I discovered it was down on pressure. I then checked to see if I could find the leak. It was leaking at the bead.
So I called my tire guy back and told him I still had a leak and he said the only fix was a tube because he cleaned and checked the wheel.
I then took the bike to a shop where I go now and then and bought a tube and had them install it. The guy said there was no apparent problems on the bead of the wheel.


put a car tire on it, problem fixed! :lmao:

It is the front tire.
If it was on the rear I would put a car tire on it. :ohno: NOT http://vulcanbagger.com/forums/images/icons/th_pi_exclamation_mark.gif

[cnc]

I would think if it is leaking at the bead there is a nick in the area of the rim or corrosion that is preventing the bead from sealing. Last year I had two tires changed on my 1968 tractor. They could not get the beads to seal and after several tries glued them. I'm not sure what they used, but I presume it was not the usual black goop / sealer that they often use as they had to wait an hour or so for it to dry before finishing the job. Neither have leaked since.

[Monkeyman]

Guess they'll be the last tires you'll ever put on your tractor, eh?