I'm also a mechanic but find their execution lacking, example why use a utility knife to cut slots into the tire instead of a Dremel? I do like their crazy ideas though.
Use 80 grit sandpaper to rough up the tire surface. Apply a urethane adhesion promoter. Make a trowel blade that's adjustable to be held at a fixed height above the old tread so the urethane windshield adhesive can be smoothed to an even thickness. When the first thin layer is on, let it dry then apply a second thin layer followed by a Kevlar cord wrap into the wet urethane, with spacing between the cord. Finish by applying a final, thicker layer. Let that fully cure than use a tire groover to cut tread blocks almost down to the Kevlar cord.
When I was young and broke, I fixed a leak in a bald tire with orange RTV and a piece of duct tape. It was a leak in the tread that would go completely flat in about 30 minutes. I cleaned the hole out with an old round file and cleaned around it with brake -Kleen. Then I squeezed the RTV (from the squeeze tube🙄) into the hole and slapped a chunk of duct tape on it and left it overnight. Next day I aired it up and it held! I put about another 50 miles on that tire back and forth to work until my next payday 👍😎
Ah, also a man of culture I see. -99% broken BMW in the driveway -3 straight seasons on winters -Double digits in the bank account -"I'll do it tomorrow"
I’m also curious on the puncture durability and stuff like that.. can’t wait to see more 😂 this channel is definitely one of my new favorites, my mind is blown every time I watch 😂
0:24 there's still 2 seasons left in them bad boys. i actually drove a bmw e46 325i with bald tires like that one winter. driving it was actually pretty fine like it moved fine it was only braking that was a problem as the wheels would just lock up. so you had to plan ahead and look far forward so you had enough time to slow down
Not only impressive work but seriously impressive results too. I thought the caulk would harden up much more in the cold let alone the studs even remaining in the tires too.
@@volvo09there’s no law that says you must have officially produced tires is there?!? And The actual tires are produced by a legal tire manufacturer. It’s Basically a retread Which is totally legal. If it’s a retread able tire.
Please do a video of different materials that could be used as engine gaskets. My Great Grandfather would use cardboard from cereal boxes for his own car. He was a mechanic his whole life, aircraft mechanic in ww2, and worked for GM all the time i was able to know him. I was very young when he passed, so I dont know how many times he had to replace the gaskets, but as far as I know they lasted long enough for him to consider it to be worth it.
Im surprised how well it worked, Could see it being handy if you was in a remote village and needed to repair a tire for the time being. wonder if the tires was scuffed up then put the sealant on would hold to the tire better.
The front ones experience so much more wear in one spot when you slam on the brakes, so they are more the true test of the tire’s resilience although it was very surprising the sealant worked as well as it did particularly retaining the studs, that pretty much proves the chemistry isn’t terribly far from car tires’
Those tyres are in really good condition. Some of our local cab drivers run on tyres where you can see the ply 😅. With these, they would run for another 15-20k km!
I had a mountain bike with wide knobbly off-road tyres . Started a new job and realised the wheels are terrible drag on roads to work. Spent the evening in front of the TV . cutting most of the tread off . Made a huge difference to drag
The hardest thing on studded tires is running on dry pavement. Quality studs will have a core of carbide or equivalent with an outer jacket of softer metal. This gives a much longer wear tip and longer life. The outer jacket wears and exposes the carbide over the life of the stud. It is also my experience that the factory installed studs stay in the tire while the injected studs done at tire shops get ejected much, much quicker.
Now go to a company that rethreads tires and let them show you how they do it. Complete by testing rethreaded tires and show how it worked out. There are a lot of myths about rethreaded tires but a lot of commercial freight traffic is running on rethreads. Back many years ago you would sometimes see complete thread paths that had ripped free of the tires on the highway, but now it's been many years since I saw that. Someone claimed modern rethreads are extremely durable and good for even normal cars. It would be interesting to see just how well modern rethreads are compared to normal tires. It is an attempt at saving money, so I assume they are rather limited in what they can do. But at the same time with heavy long haul trucks often using them it's interesting to see just what they are using on our roads.
man, gunna hafta try this now... i can't beleive it help up after a burn out like that, with 'normal' driving it should be ok for a while i'd say. i got many old crappy tires, and winter is just starting... see how far i can get before they explode or i end up in a ditch
i think the drive tires sealant stuck better cause the heat from the friction, but the front tires didnt have the heat and the cold made it seperate from the tire rubber shrinking
Those look like they would hold up better than some remoulds. I remember years ago a friend had a lend of his grandfathers Volvo 240 which has a brand new set of really cheap remoulds. Showing off he did a burnout and the tyres literally came apart with lumps flying everywhere. Had to go and buy a new set before he gave the car back
I've made tyres for radio controlled cars that are moulded from 100% black silicone caulking and fibreglass fly screen mesh for the belting. They actually hold up really good.
I suggest to try it during the summer, and see the result will be different or not. Thanks for the hard work.
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I had that same feeling too hopefully they'll handle because they're for hot engines
They made summer tires, so hopefully some time soon.
Better cawk in the summer
yeah when it is HOT on the road to see if it melts
An american mechanic over here. I genuinly LOVE watching the crazy shit you guys come up with. Yall make averege mechanics look like children
This is what happens when you give any mechanic unlimited free time in the shop and pay them for it
I'm also a mechanic but find their execution lacking, example why use a utility knife to cut slots into the tire instead of a Dremel? I do like their crazy ideas though.
@@smore1g I do some of these things because I'm unemployed.
@@TheRedRaven_ Because knife is 10 times faster, or even 15
@@Johnyshmit You have it backwards my friend.
If that is windshield sealant, that’s some worthy stuff. I fixed a tire with it about 9 years ago. It worked great.
I suspect it is from how durable it was.
Urethane. It actually makes windshields structural. That's how strong it is. Cutting it out is difficult.
Windshield sealant is some amazing stuff. I use it to fix holes in my rubber boots.
They didn't really show what it was. It does look like window sealant.
But that stuff is like $30/tube so might as well use a cheap tire.
I did not expect the sealant to hold that well. Great work!
What happened that there are no Ladas in this video :'c
@ 0:27 there is a Niva in the background haha..
They have been turned into spacecraft, and are sitting on the surface of Venus.
Putin turned them into ballistic missiles
They finally destroyed all of them
Prob too cold for any to start lol
Those are ready for Marketplace.....
"60% Tread, I know what I got."
😂
Sad thing is, there are people that actually would buy them and not even know the difference lol
Big black cawk tires
"Handmade treads" 😂
That poor guy cutting those threads :,D
Some of us would find that clinically soothing to make such a nice, amazing looking tread pattern.
Looks relaxing ngl. Put on some music or a book and have at it
There is an actual machine made for cutting tires, much better than box cutter.
Aren't all tires made like this?
@@bastiaan7777777 what the...
Use 80 grit sandpaper to rough up the tire surface. Apply a urethane adhesion promoter. Make a trowel blade that's adjustable to be held at a fixed height above the old tread so the urethane windshield adhesive can be smoothed to an even thickness. When the first thin layer is on, let it dry then apply a second thin layer followed by a Kevlar cord wrap into the wet urethane, with spacing between the cord. Finish by applying a final, thicker layer. Let that fully cure than use a tire groover to cut tread blocks almost down to the Kevlar cord.
wow sounds proper but think ill get a new set of tires....
I never get TIRED of your videos
Sunday morning videos don’t get any better than garage 54. Keep up the good works guys.
When I was young and broke, I fixed a leak in a bald tire with orange RTV and a piece of duct tape. It was a leak in the tread that would go completely flat in about 30 minutes. I cleaned the hole out with an old round file and cleaned around it with brake -Kleen. Then I squeezed the RTV (from the squeeze tube🙄) into the hole and slapped a chunk of duct tape on it and left it overnight. Next day I aired it up and it held! I put about another 50 miles on that tire back and forth to work until my next payday 👍😎
Extra poor man's tire plug 😂.
Ah, also a man of culture I see.
-99% broken BMW in the driveway
-3 straight seasons on winters
-Double digits in the bank account
-"I'll do it tomorrow"
I'm cheap but not that cheap 😂
Nice Caulk!
That thick black caulk really pulls the eye
Man! The patience you guys have is next level!
You do such a good job with the tyres so much hard work
Yeah, i can't believe they made 4!
I used to hate putting studs in tires with an air gun, nevermind all that work!!
I’m also curious on the puncture durability and stuff like that.. can’t wait to see more 😂 this channel is definitely one of my new favorites, my mind is blown every time I watch 😂
I can see this as being a way to make a QFE set of racing slicks. Not sure about going the other way.though.
Such an underrated channel these guys are so much better than the majority of the auto channels, Donut is nothing compared to what these guys do.
Always doing interesting things i like how with everything you guys do you explain your method
Garage 54 never fails to entertain me!
That is the funniest sacrilege ever committed toward the $1,000,000,000+ industry that encompasses Tire Tread Engineering.
0:24 there's still 2 seasons left in them bad boys. i actually drove a bmw e46 325i with bald tires like that one winter. driving it was actually pretty fine like it moved fine it was only braking that was a problem as the wheels would just lock up. so you had to plan ahead and look far forward so you had enough time to slow down
114% Satisfying video!
Hey, that's over 107% success!
I love the way you think outside of all the boxes.
Not only impressive work but seriously impressive results too. I thought the caulk would harden up much more in the cold let alone the studs even remaining in the tires too.
Everyone rushing out to buy rubber caulk.
"hey Alexa, order me a black rubber caulk"
@@Mastermindyoung14 🍆
Imagine failing car inspection / mot for bad tires, and you come back for a retest with handmade tread 😂
😂@@Mastermindyoung14
@@volvo09there’s no law that says you must have officially produced tires is there?!?
And
The actual tires are produced by a legal tire manufacturer.
It’s
Basically a retread
Which is totally legal.
If it’s a retread able tire.
Yeah the youngster with the knife on the tread job was absolutely more patient than me. Good work young fella
3:05 That looks so amazingly good for being done with a razor knife 😂
Urethane windshield glue is some strong stuff!
I love this channel, thanks for sharing the experiments we always wanted to try
I don't know what you used, but I want 2 cases of it! that actually held up. Great video guys, keep the videos coming.
Nice wrx
I love you videos I'm from the United States no war
xD
Have you been to Detroit, Chicago, st Louis, or Atlanta?
Have you been to Scranton Pennsylvania?! Place is a war zone brooo
Trump will stop the war... I hope. We need world peace
@@YooperbloodBecause of Sleepy Joe 😂❤😂 TRUMP 2024
Front tires do the braking so those similar stopping results would be expected.
From 50kmh though
So do the back wheels, because cars have brakes on all fours unless it was back in the early 1900s when only rears had brakes.
@@TheSilverShadow17Yes but the front does most of the work. That’s the reason for the similar results
@@servicetrucker5564 Nonetheless, I appreciate your clarification.
You folks are all awesome. Thanks for the great vid.
Should have used a tire groover to make new tread
They did. His name is Alexi.
@@operator8014😂
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The crazy in the comment bots
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I always lay lots of tread with my caulk 😂
Here in the u.s. I've used a product called NP-1 to re-sole some slippery sole boots; sticks great to pvc soles; pretty durable too
That's an amazing result.
The best part is once he's on the freeway the tires turn into weapons. Ha ha lol😂
ahhh, just lovely VLAD doing lovely crazy VLADY things😂
Please do a video of different materials that could be used as engine gaskets. My Great Grandfather would use cardboard from cereal boxes for his own car. He was a mechanic his whole life, aircraft mechanic in ww2, and worked for GM all the time i was able to know him. I was very young when he passed, so I dont know how many times he had to replace the gaskets, but as far as I know they lasted long enough for him to consider it to be worth it.
Im surprised how well it worked, Could see it being handy if you was in a remote village and needed to repair a tire for the time being. wonder if the tires was scuffed up then put the sealant on would hold to the tire better.
Incredible that it adhered so well.
The front ones experience so much more wear in one spot when you slam on the brakes, so they are more the true test of the tire’s resilience although it was very surprising the sealant worked as well as it did particularly retaining the studs, that pretty much proves the chemistry isn’t terribly far from car tires’
Those tyres are in really good condition.
Some of our local cab drivers run on tyres where you can see the ply 😅.
With these, they would run for another 15-20k km!
Might be nice for making a quick set of slicks!
We used to cut grooves into used racing slicks and than put it on our motorcycles. It worked quite good even in the wet.
Im just impressed with that caulks holding power thats some good shit there
My hand is cramping just watching this
If the studs where screwed in and a washer was attached then caulking it would be sanwiched in there and would be a great snow tire
Love to see the GS!!!! They should do some more experiments with it!!!!
As a kid I used to use a grooving iron and put dirt track grooves on racing slicks
I had a mountain bike with wide knobbly off-road tyres . Started a new job and realised the wheels are terrible drag on roads to work. Spent the evening in front of the TV . cutting most of the tread off . Made a huge difference to drag
0:49
the wagon in the background looks like an Australian Holden Commodore 😂 probably a Skoda tho
Porsche
During next spring ivan be like who the fauk trown all these nails in the road.... 😅😂😂😂😂
Another great video thanks guys
This channel is absolutely crazy and I watch every one that pops up, it's great
The hardest thing on studded tires is running on dry pavement. Quality studs will have a core of carbide or equivalent with an outer jacket of softer metal. This gives a much longer wear tip and longer life. The outer jacket wears and exposes the carbide over the life of the stud. It is also my experience that the factory installed studs stay in the tire while the injected studs done at tire shops get ejected much, much quicker.
I use those sealant for my engine mount. Very strong, instant power to the wheels. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Oh man, my forearm hurts just watching you with the caulk gun.. 🤣
Requires a lot of forearm strength to pump the caulk
Next highway and moose testing
I had a black 2001 GS400 and they are such beautiful cars. One of those cars I regret selling.
Im curious if it would enchance the durability by mixing it with fiber glass?
Whenever I see the guys from Garage54, I immediately think of the Counter-Strike teammates.
Let's send some warm thoughts to the trailer drivers who tried to sleep at that rest area.
Now go to a company that rethreads tires and let them show you how they do it. Complete by testing rethreaded tires and show how it worked out. There are a lot of myths about rethreaded tires but a lot of commercial freight traffic is running on rethreads. Back many years ago you would sometimes see complete thread paths that had ripped free of the tires on the highway, but now it's been many years since I saw that. Someone claimed modern rethreads are extremely durable and good for even normal cars. It would be interesting to see just how well modern rethreads are compared to normal tires. It is an attempt at saving money, so I assume they are rather limited in what they can do. But at the same time with heavy long haul trucks often using them it's interesting to see just what they are using on our roads.
The myth busters of the car world.
man, gunna hafta try this now... i can't beleive it help up after a burn out like that, with 'normal' driving it should be ok for a while i'd say. i got many old crappy tires, and winter is just starting...
see how far i can get before they explode or i end up in a ditch
I would buy some refurbished tires from you guys!!!
SUMMER! ... summer times dey pop.
Fascinating how they changed the tires while driving xD
The results are better than I expected although the cost of new tires is probably close or less than a couple cases of good caulk.
Do the same test but in summer time to really check the durability of this experiment
lexus gs featured, instant like
Dang love the pizza toppings 17:19😂.
What?
Oh yeah, those pepperoni with black caulk is my favorite.
0:05 Lada snow. Once you’ve heard it, it can not be unheard😂
Great testing!
The real idlers ❤ rwb nakai
i think the drive tires sealant stuck better cause the heat from the friction, but the front tires didnt have the heat and the cold made it seperate from the tire rubber shrinking
Nice caulk!
I love Lexus gs in that body
A Lexus? Garage 54 making it to the top little by little!😂
Tyres were fantastic, _drivng up a 20 metre hill, at 5km/h._
Those look like they would hold up better than some remoulds. I remember years ago a friend had a lend of his grandfathers Volvo 240 which has a brand new set of really cheap remoulds. Showing off he did a burnout and the tyres literally came apart with lumps flying everywhere. Had to go and buy a new set before he gave the car back
I've made tyres for radio controlled cars that are moulded from 100% black silicone caulking and fibreglass fly screen mesh for the belting. They actually hold up really good.
Should restore that Lexus, they are so well made.
Can you do the same test on rain and see which groove patterns work the best
Pedal happy!
In the states of current goofiness, we call it LEADFOOT!
NICE CAULK!
0:54 just tie some nylon ropes on the tyre to get more grip and carry extra because it will break time to time.
Yall should do this test with the normal rebuilt tires, but an endurance test to see how long they last on normal driving.
Awesome experiment.
Fully Sika!
You know, Vlad's pretty bald too, could this help him?
Tune in for the next episode!
Likely the front tires chunked out more because they were the turning/steering tires.
There's a lot of derby car guys that crack eggs in their radiators to fix leaks- would be a fun video to try radiator fixes like that
I’ve used black pepper.
It does work, and it doesn’t clog radiators or coolant ports!
@@dangeary2134 Yep, pepper for sure.
16:15 I would not want to be the guy behind the car during the burnout with metal studs coming out like bullets!
Thats the most MadMax tire I have ever seen
Key phrase, "the caulk does not _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ at all" hahaha!
0:51 WHAT'S IT GOT STUNTMAN!?
Where did those guys go? I miss them.
@twentyrothmans7308 I'm assuming they got in trouble with the law or are just too busy scrapping.
@@grabasandwich Noise complaints from the people in the graveyard.
That air conditioner incident still makes me laugh.
8:00 those wheels are crazy, omG 😍
Shogun wheels, perhaps 18x9,5".