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Message started by 2000 Impreza on 12/14/9 at 13:19:55

Title: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by 2000 Impreza on 12/14/9 at 13:19:55

I have an old set of snow tires that I would like to use as my rally cross tires (maybe winter street tires as well if its safe to have tubes in on the street ). I am wondering if I can run inner tubes in a normal tubeless street tire?

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by RyanHuber on 12/14/9 at 13:39:38

A lot of people run tubes in winter tires to avoid snow packing in the bead causing a flat. You should be fine, just make sure you don't buy tubes that have been sitting on a shelf forever. Also, i've heard to try to use minimal lube putting the tires on, if the tire spins on the rim it'll tear the stem off.

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by 2000 Impreza on 12/14/9 at 13:47:31

Perfect that's what I wanted to hear. Is there any reason it would not be safe to run on the street as my regular snow tires also?
Cheers

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by dtompsett on 12/14/9 at 13:54:38

I wouldn't worry about them causing an issue if driven on the street.

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by J.Strack on 12/14/9 at 15:08:53

also coat the inside of the tire with baby powder. it will help reduce friction between the tube and the tire. and it smells wonderful. (+)

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by Slowpoke on 12/14/9 at 16:03:26

My navigator Opal ran some snows with tubes off her old ice racer last winter. She commented on some high speed vibration that couldn't be balanced out, but nothing serious.

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by jgardhouse on 12/14/9 at 17:35:57

STRACK wrote on 12/14/9 at 15:08:53:

also coat the inside of the tire with baby powder.

Thats the advice that I got from a Sprongl, so I'll say its good :)

AFAIK, having the tube slip and tear the valve won't happen unless you're running stupidly low pressures.

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by dtompsett on 12/15/9 at 06:49:30

j_gardhouse wrote on 12/14/9 at 17:35:57:

STRACK wrote on 12/14/9 at 15:08:53:

also coat the inside of the tire with baby powder.

Thats the advice that I got from a Sprongl, so I'll say its good :)

AFAIK, having the tube slip and tear the valve won't happen unless you're running stupidly low pressures.

Not exactly true... I crewed for ACP at SnoDrift one year where we mounted a bunch of Yokohama A034 winter tires. Early on in the day we had icy conditions in the braking zones, and frozen gravel in the corners... So lock up your wheels in the braking zone, then hit the hard frozen gravel. We tore up several tubes by spinning tires on the rims. We weren't running excessively low pressures.

A few weeks later at PN... the guys used a heck of a lot less baby powder when mounting tires, and before seating the bead of the rim we would wipe them down with some brake cleaner on a rag.

Title: Re: Inner Tubes in Street Tires
Post by Wedge on 12/15/9 at 07:24:25

My advice is take them to a good shop that knows how to mount tubes. Don't go to any old tire shop. Ideally a rally shop like fourstar that you know will do them right.