Tire repair air capsule

[deaninkl]

I've repaired car tires with the normal type of repair kits available for tubeless tires, but always done it after changing to the spare and the repaired tire to the garage for the air pump. For a while I've had a repair kit under my seat on the GS. I realised recently that if I was to get a flat (touch wood I won't)I have never tried the compressed air capsules.... do you just screw them into the valve and the valve top does the rest? or is there a method for getting the air into the tire?

thanks.

 

[Uncle Ricky]

I've repaired car tires with the normal type of repair kits available for tubeless tires, but always done it after changing to the spare and the repaired tire to the garage for the air pump. For a while I've had a repair kit under my seat on the GS. I realised recently that if I was to get a flat (touch wood I won't)I have never tried the compressed air capsules.... do you just screw them into the valve and the valve top does the rest? or is there a method for getting the air into the tire?

thanks.

Yes BUT don't hold it with your bare hand it will get very cold when the compressed air goes into your tyre, you will need to use 2-3 of them because they will only go up to 12lbs of pressure per canister

Rick

 

[deaninkl]

thanks Rick, thought as much, but didn't want to find out I was wrong in the middle of nowhere... which is where I usually find myself...

 

[Two wheels good]

adapter fitment

Before fitting the plastic adapter between tyre valve and CO2 canister:
- identify the end of the adapter which has a metal nipple\protrusion
- The metal nipple is required to pierce the CO2 canister as the canister is screwed (quickly) onto the adapter.

 

[Steptoe]

Don't bother using more than two canisters, the pressure between the cannister and tyre is equalised once approx 25lb pressure is in the tyre.

 

[Wapping]

Buy a small compressor. The cheap ones in Halfords or on petrol garages' shelves are fine. Simply strip the plastic case off and bingo! One small compressor.

You have a 1200GS it seems. Take care, many compressors will draw more than 5 amps on start up (they have to work hard to compress air, after all). As they draw more than 5 amps, the canbus will fail to safety IF you try to use a bogstandard BuMW factory fit axilliary socket for power. The solution? Connect direct to the battery (with a suitable fused lead, say, 10 amp) and croc clips.

Easiest? Buy a good quality small bicycle pump. One that pumps on the instroke and partialy on the out stroke. You will work up a sweat but it will pump to over 40 psi and you will sweat more pushing your bike, that's a certainty.

 

[Uncle Ricky]

Buy a small compressor. The cheap ones in Halfords .

Don't know if they have a Halfords in Malaysia

 

[Wapping]

Don't know if they have a Halfords in Malaysia

They don't seem to have £12 for site subscription either.

He'll probably manage.

 

[Pukmeister]

One of the CO2 ctlinders has a plastic mesh bag on it, this is used to stop your fingers freezing onto the cylinder as it discharges into the tyre and cools. Simply swap onto each cylinder just before you screw it onto the plastic bottle piercing tyre adapter.

If you need more replacement cylinders, try a home brew shop or bicycle shop, they sell spare ones for brewing and cycle tyres respectively but they are the same item.

 

[Bear in the Air]

OR you could just put 'SLIME' in the tyre, if you get a nail in it, the slime will fill the leak, so no worries about pumping it up, and the plus side is that if it happens at a high speed, it will not rapidly deflate.

http://www.slime.com/category_3_Tire-Sealant.html

 

[D6]

u can buy a little adapter with a trigger to make it easier

 

[PaulW]

Easiest? Buy a good quality small bicycle pump. One that pumps on the instroke and partialy on the out stroke. You will work up a sweat but it will pump to over 40 psi and you will sweat more pushing your bike, that's a certainty.

2nd

 

[deaninkl]

Before fitting the plastic adapter between tyre valve and CO2 canister:
- identify the end of the adapter which has a metal nipple\protrusion
- The metal nipple is required to pierce the CO2 canister as the canister is screwed (quickly) onto the adapter.

I checked the kit under my seat... no plastic adapter..... may have lost it as it came from anothe BMW I had before the GS..

 

[Taff]

One of the CO2 ctlinders has a plastic mesh bag on it, this is used to stop your fingers freezing onto the cylinder as it discharges into the tyre and cools. Simply swap onto each cylinder just before you screw it onto the plastic bottle piercing.

I checked the kit under my seat... no plastic adapter..... may have lost it as it came from anothe BMW I had before the GS..

Why not just use your gloves?

Far easier than fannying around with little plastic mesh.

 

[Nailer]

OR you could just put 'SLIME' in the tyre, if you get a nail in it, the slime will fill the leak, so no worries about pumping it up, and the plus side is that if it happens at a high speed, it will not rapidly deflate.

http://www.slime.com/category_3_Tire-Sealant.html

Dont fancy the sound of this
taken from the slime web site..