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Pinhole leak, sidewall, riding mower. Advoce??I suppose that I should have

Jun 17, 2025 - 6:17:34 PM
63233 posts since 12/14/2005

As best as I can tell, it's a tubeless tire on the front of my riding mower.
Slow, but determined leak, almost too small to see. The thinned out dish soap proved it, thrice.

What, if anything, would be the quickest and cheapest way to fix a sidewall leak, all by myself? The least expenditure, in time, labor, and/or money?

Jun 17, 2025 - 7:54:49 PM
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103 posts since 6/18/2023

Buy something like Slime Tire Sealant, I put that in everything from riding mowers to backhoe tractors, any off road equipment. Worked excellent, no downtime for leaking tires, washes out with water when it comes time to replace a tire.

Jun 18, 2025 - 3:44:05 AM

43309 posts since 3/5/2008

Did you check the valve stem?

Jun 18, 2025 - 5:47:30 AM
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Buddur

USA

4209 posts since 10/23/2004

Sidewall leaks are killers on old dry-rotted tubeless tires.

Install a tube inside or get a new tire.

Jun 18, 2025 - 6:45:30 AM
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63233 posts since 12/14/2005

quote:
Originally posted by STUD figmo Al

Did you check the valve stem?


Yes. No bubbles there.

Sidewall? Pinhole and Don Ho whistling TINY BUBBLES.

So let's grab our banjos and sing the NEW LYRICS

===============================

Tiny bubbles, on the tire! Make me angry, really crank my ire!

Tiny bubbles, let the air escape! With an un-appealing feeling for the tire's flat or oval shape!

So here''s to a waste of cash, and here's to a waste of time,

And here's me going to the store for a can of SLIME(TM)!

Tiny bubbles, showed me now, just where, and I'm hoping there ain't any more leaks down there!

==============================

(Thunderous applause) 

Jun 18, 2025 - 6:59:07 AM
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8864 posts since 9/5/2006

best thing to do is go to the walmart off of N60th ave and get an inner tube for 13 bucks and stick it in,,, no more worries

Jun 18, 2025 - 8:06:35 AM

81037 posts since 5/9/2007

New tires are fairly cheap and work good for long periods of time.
Cuts way down on chasing air problems.

Jun 18, 2025 - 6:27:23 PM
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63233 posts since 12/14/2005

Got a bottle of SLIME, followed the instructions, MADE SURE to tip the tire so the product would be sitting over the pinhole, pumped it up, and the tiny bubbles still came out.
Like the tube suggestion. Pretty sure the Farm & Fleet store will have tube.
If not, there is a Walmart closer than N. 60th.

thanks, all.

Jun 18, 2025 - 6:57:04 PM
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Owen

Canada

17254 posts since 6/5/2011

Riding mower you say???   

From the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do department, I say  "go all in" :

 MOWERCYCLE! Human powered lawn-mower

I've seen those ^^ [not in use] but wonder if the force required would make them worthwhile??

But power might not be an issue with one of these bad boys:

John Deere motorcycle lawn mower - Make:

Jun 19, 2025 - 12:39:06 PM

15666 posts since 1/15/2005

Slime works fine on slow leaks .... at least on larger tires like on my Kubota tractor. I just put tubes in the front tires of my Cub Cadet zero turn mower ..... got tired on having to not only fill the old tires with air , but manipulate them where they would even take air. I think I got two on Amazon Prime for $14 and free shipping.

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