Slime question

[LBrown59]

May be dumb question, If I were to buy slime at Wal-Mart how do I get it in the tire?

Directions on package.

 

[LBrown59]

You can use Slime / Gemplers in Tubed tires, right?

It's really pretty simple.
Use tublees slim in tubeless tires.
Use tube slime in tires with tubes.

 

[gemini5362]

I tried a different brand last time I was in walmart they have some stuff that looks like slime but is yellow. I believe it was prestone but dont hold me to that. It was about a third cheaper than slime. I bought a gallon of it and it seems to have worked everywhere slime did and maybe a couple of places slime did not work before. I bought the gallon jug of it and have put it in tires with tubes and without. I have a hand truck that has tubed tires on it. I put slime in there before and they went down. I put the yellow stuff in the tubes about a month ago and just spun the tires by hand. So far they tubed tires on the hand truck have not went down.

 

[LBrown59]

is there any easy way to tell if it has a tube?
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If you can push the valve back into the rim it has a tube .
If you can't it's a tubless tire.

 

[gemini5362]

If you can push the valve back into the rim it has a tube .
If you can't it's a tubless tire.

This reminds me of one of my brilliant tractor stories. I had a low tire on my small kubota. I didnt think anything about it I just went into my shop and got the stuff to plug it with. I found the hole and went to fix it. I pushed the reamer in and the air all came out and I put the plug in and went to air it up. I realize then that I had forgotten to check and see if it was tubeless. It wasnt. You really cant plug a very tube tire very well.