Tyre weld suitably with pneumatic jockey wheel

OrionCalls replied on 09/04/2020 12:18

OrionCalls

Posted on 09/04/2020 12:18

I have always found that a pneumatic jockey wheel is better for manoeuvring my caravan than the hard plastic jockey wheel. The BIG disadvantage has been that the pneumatic ones keep deflating! (I have always used Alko jockey wheels). I have had tubed jockey wheels and tubeless!

I was wondering whether it is feasible to used a puncture repair tyre weld similar to that used instead of a spare tyre in a lot of new cars on my present tubeless pneumatic jockey wheel?

Has anybody done this and any views as to how long this type of repair could last on a jockey wheel because it obviously wouldn’t have the same type of use as a car’s tyre?

Thanks

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SteveL replied on 09/04/2020 12:41

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SteveL

Motorhomer

Posted on 09/04/2020 12:41

When we had them the rubber just degraded as it was such poor quality. I thought those injection systems just sealed the small hole and inflated the tyre. Our jockey wheel tyres developed splits. The inner tubes were of a similar poor quality and also tended to split rather than puncture.

Phishing replied on 09/04/2020 22:40

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Phishing

Caravanner

Posted on 09/04/2020 22:40

The issue is the quality of the tubes, I use these wheels in a different application and got fed up with them deflating. I took the tube out and it was not butyl rubber, it was a really poor quality polymer. Got some butyl rubber ones from ebay and been inflated for about 2 year now.

Try the tyreweld, worst that can happen is you have crappy cleaning job to wash it out again if you need to change the tyre. You would need to raise the jockey wheel and spin it for 10min to stop it just pooling in the bottom of the tyre!