Tire Gun Puncture Repair Kit

How to use a mushroom plug tire gun repair kit. This kit is designed for tubeless tires and it is generally used as a temporary repair. With this kit, the plastic ‘lead’ remains inside the tire and can be removed when you are having the tire removed and patched internally at a tire shop. I am only demonstrating how to use the repair kit. I am not endorsing or recommending the use of the kit as a replacement for a professional or permanent tire repair. If you find this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel. Thank you !

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[tint]

Years ago I worked in a garage that had one of these puncture repair kits. No one used it and no one knew how to use it. We used the rope style plugs with glue. I remember looking at the mushroom plugs and wondering how they were used with the kit. Thanks for posting.

[SigmaSheepdog]

These repair kits do work quite well. I have fixed a light truck tire and two motorcycle tires with success. But, after doing some research, I now use rope plugs for my tires.

[jimpie]

I purchased a similar tool about 35 years ago. I have repaired about 20 flat tires in this time frame. I paid $10 for it from JC Whitney (Warshawsky). It is kind of difficult to use. Mine actually has a puncturing tool with insertion part, so when you remove the reaming tool that part stays in. The plug is mushroom shape (rubber) and you coat it into your can of rubber cement. The rubber cement is Coates into the hole and also under the mushroom repair plug. You insert the mushroom rubber plug into the gun, same as this kit, but you now screw it onto the piece that was left into the hole with the reamer. Then you press the gun and the rubber stays and everything else is removed. I never had a leak repairing a tire with this gun.

[bubbalo]

The plug strips with a rasping tool and the strip inserting tool is easy, cheap and refills easily found anywhere even from convenience stores and large grocery stores. And they are cheap but effective.

I carry them in the car along with a flat head and a Philips screwdriver, pliers and a pump when I go on road trips.

[thangknowa]

Nope. For many years I have used the rope plugs, NEVER EVER had one fail. A wise old man shared with me His technique at least 30 years ago, it works great. The rasping round file does wear out and must be replaced from time to time, due to tough steel belts in most tires. Victor T Handle Set 👍

[TheHypnotstCollector]

I lived in the Santa Cruz Mtns, Ca for many yrs. A lot of carpenters in the mtns. A lot of nails on the roads. I used one of these, they have issues. I like the eyed shaft thingy, you put a slightly sticky strip-patch into the eye, use some glue, jam it thru the hole (after running the rough "file" thru the hole). Strips of bicycle tube works ok, too

[robertbowling]

The mushroom plugs are nice, but to do them correctly, the tire should be broken down off of at least one bead to gain access to the damaged area .... then buffed to get to good rubber for cement or vulcanizing ...

Tho this is a workable solution to a puncture, I've personally always used either rope style or rubber plugs. I've used that style for DYI plugging, and never experienced a failed repair. I've used them on cars, trucks and lawn-garden tractors ... never any problems. I'm oldef now, and its harded to perform some i recently had a flat on my car and pumped up and drove to get plugged. I think tge bill came to $32.57 to get it plugged! So much for new mushroom plugs! Back to old school for me!

[ObserveNotify]

Why not tested and shown with soapy water, that there is no air leaking from that plug?.

[castawaysmc]

so simple, a rubber pop rivet gun for tires. logically it just makes sense to work great. I wonder why we don't see these around everywhere seeing that they have been around for so long

[jimbrant]

Looks like the one I have. Got it way back in 1970s. Still working good.

[michaelb]

I have been using the rope type plug for over 30 yrs. it's faster, easier and never had one fail.

[krusty]

So the rubber arrow is now rattling away inside the tyre?

[davef.]

Back in the '80's we were sold on this by the mobile tool man and never could get it to work consistently as advertised, lots of come-backs.

[bobreichel]

I remember when I was younger, back in the early 70s, I worked in a gas station, and we had a mushroom gun. The mushrooms had a much larger umbrella covering a larger area. I've had several that keep leaking air. The old stile in the 70s, we never had leaking issues. Why they don't make the umbrella larger is beyond me.

[kafklatsch]

Unfortunately several comparison test show them as the least reliable.. and most leak prone after a good install. Apprently the old fashion rope with goo is still a top solution. That famous farmer test guy showed this type as the only one to leak after some road testing of various plugs (several plug types installed in the same tire all at once) .

[olukayodeokunowo]

Very useful kit that can be used by virtually anyone. Thank you for this great video.

[tberan]

I think this and the sticky string both work fine and both can fail. Took it to someone to patch it with sticky string and it failed, used a similar gun, mushroom plug along with a good slavering of vulcanising rubber and that's lasted a couple of years. The only permanent and safe repair is off the rim with the plug and patch.

[OlBlueshound]

Looks good in theory but would be better if the oil lubricant was actually a sealant or glue. And this method and the good old licorice stick repairs are good to keep you going, but because the steel belt encased in the tire is not damaged it's very likely you could get a blow out at high speed driving. This repair is ok up to maybe 40 mph or 65 kph but no more. Like I said it's OK for slower speeds but the tyres integrity is compromised by the broken steel belts inside. OK on a grocery getter but not for highway use.

[Waynes-xtgr]

I was a gas attendant way back in the problem with some punctures is that the nail or screw or even shard of metal, would be imbedded diagonally instead of straight up, possibly causing to make even a tar string kinda hard to patch....if I was not careful, that kinda probing would make the repair worse.