I’m been looking for a trashy set of tires I can use strictly for off road, I really don’t want to take my nice street tires (That I haven’t got yet) and trash them by taking them off road, since the 13 inch steel wheels are a dime a dozen I figured it I got a trashy set of tires mounted on a set of rims, I’d have something to take off road, and if I beat the tires up, or blow one out, no big deal.

 

Well, one of the guys I work with gave me a nice set of studded snow tires last week, so I was thinking that would make a nice set of trashy off road tires, all I have to do is pull the studs out.

 

I’m sure there’s quite a few on here that have pulled studs at some point in their lives, I know I have, but not exactly for this reason.

 

Pulling studs leaves you with a nice big gapping hole in the tire, close to 100 of those holes per tire as a matter of fact, and those holes leave the potential of collecting rocks and causing flats, so I got to wondering is there was something we could do with the holes once the studs were pulled out so they wouldn’t collect rocks.

 

That question lead me to a google search, and here’s what I found:

 

It seems that the rock crawler guys and the cross country adventurers really like shoe goo:

 

The cross country off roaders say that shoe good will save a 500 dollar tire: when it gets a cut or an abrasion, they doctor it up with shoo goo and they claim it holds out just fine, and the rock crawler guys are saying the same thing …..so

 

I had to go buy some and try it out for myself.

 

I’m filling the holes in the old snow tires as I pull the studs out, it dries over night, it’s not hard work, just time consuming, and I got plenty of time, so I’m in no hurry here:

 

I’m thinking that if it works for those guys, it should work for a cheap guy like me.

 

Time will tell how it holds up, but I’m gonna give it a shot, at least it looks like it’s gonna dry hard enough to keep the rocks out of those holes.

 

I’m not a die hard off roader, but I do like exploring those North West mountain logging and fire roads.

I repaired a worn toe on some expensive hiking boots, shoe goo is pretty damn durable. Not sure how it would hold up on a tire during a rallycross race tho.

I repaired a worn toe on some expensive hiking boots, shoe goo is pretty damn durable. Not sure how it would hold up on a tire during a rallycross race tho.

 

all I want it to do is keep the rocks out of those stud holes in the tire, hopefully it does that