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    Posted: 23 December 2010 at 1:29am
When I go out trail riding I keep getting mud in the beads of my tires causing them to loose air. Does anyone have any good ideas on how to prevent this from happening?
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Stay outa the daggum mud!
 
What width wheels and what width tires?  Im running 12.50s on 8 inch wheels, and rarely have problems with this.  I think wide wheels on narrow tires tends to make the problem worse.
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Originally posted by alabamatoy alabamatoy wrote:

Stay outa the daggum mud!
 
What width wheels and what width tires?  Im running 12.50s on 8 inch wheels, and rarely have problems with this.  I think wide wheels on narrow tires tends to make the problem worse.


I have 10.50s on 8 inch wheels.  I air them down to 15-18 lbs for trail use.
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Those 12.50 x 15 BFG MT’s I had were real bad about getting mud between the rim and the tire bead and leaking air.  The lower the pressure I ran, the more likely it was to happen.  Those BFG’s had some rubber that kinda hung out over the wheel rim and I think it was supposed to protect the wheel rim a little.  But when I ran low pressure (10 psi), mud would get caught in there and get “pumped” into the area where the tire contacted the wheel rim.

That would happen to me about 3 or 4 times a year with those BFG’s.  I used to have to remove the tire and pop one side of the bead to clean the mud out enuff to stop the leak.  But I saw a guy up at Summertown take a foot long piece of 2x2 and put the end of it on the tire right at the leak and beat the shit out of the other end with a BFH and the air inside the tire blew most of the mud out.  I started using that method and it worked about 90% of the time.

I haven’t had that problem with the new SX’s and beadlocks.



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I'm running 35x12.5x15 on 8" wheels at 8 psi and haven't had any problems.
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You need a 7" wide rim. 
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