{"id":1329,"date":"2016-08-15T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2016-08-15T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T10:00:16","slug":"tire-slime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/15\/tire-slime\/","title":{"rendered":"Tire Slime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a flat tire caused by a puncture, if you don&#8217;t have a spare tire, but have a tire pump, usually you&#8217;ll be okay if you use some sort of tire sealant, like Slime. I&#8217;d never used it myself until the summer camp work truck had a leaking tire, so I pumped a bottle in and it sealed it up nicely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1333\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_15_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_08_15_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a mechanic I&#8217;m not a fan of the various tire sealing products, because they&#8217;re just a mess when it comes to taking off the old tire later on. When removing the air from the tire I may get sprayed by green or purple liquid from inside the tire, and when I&#8217;ve taken the old tire off the wheel I have to be careful not to splash it all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>If you do get some tire sealant, and you have tire pressure monitoring sensors, make sure you get a kind that&#8217;s safe for those, because some can destroy the sensors and you&#8217;re now out a couple hundred bucks.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a flat tire caused by a puncture, if you don&#8217;t have a spare tire, but have a tire pump, usually you&#8217;ll be okay if you use some sort of tire sealant, like Slime. I&#8217;d never used it myself until the summer camp work truck had a leaking tire, so I pumped a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wheels-tires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}