Changing out my tires for winter ones and this one won't deflate! There's some green goo the comes out and I can press down on it to deflate the tire. Prob will just saw it off and use a new tube…but just curious what is going on
by schneeman_pod
Changing out my tires for winter ones and this one won't deflate! There's some green goo the comes out and I can press down on it to deflate the tire. Prob will just saw it off and use a new tube…but just curious what is going on
by schneeman_pod
8 Comments
Slime?
You have Slime in your tube. It’s the original sealant. You can buy it as an additive or buy tubes which come pre-Slimed. Nothing to worry about, except that it can make a mess.
It slime. you should move your valve to the top to prevent the SLIME coming out 🙂
As others say, it’s a Slime tube, and the goo clogging the valve is a known issue and why many people ditch them.
Slime is terrible. It’s mediocre at best as a sealant, and it makes it impossible to patch a tube with that shit in it — its chemical composition breaks down rubber cement and it will seep under patches. Every single tube I’ve ever patched that had Slime in it had the patch fail within a day or two, sometimes just hours.
It’s tire sealant. If it got inside your valve core when you deflated your tire, it might cause it to remain stuck open. If you use tube sealants, you should buy a pack of spare valves, they’re dirt cheap
Slime tubes come with green valve caps, to warn you… but they don’t keep them usually, because valve caps go missing all the time.
IT’S INFECTED! SOOO GROSS!!
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