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Originally Posted by Sava
Exactly. A lot of air will escape when you pull out the nail, and if you have more than one punctures in the same tyre, almost all the air will be gone by the time you seal the hole (talking from experience here). AFAIK, the repair will last for the lifetime of the tyre in most cases. Don't know about the OP, but I had two punctures in my FZ's rear tyres about 3 months back (2 huge nails struck in the tyre), its got no leakage so far - its as good as it was before the puncture. |
So what if the air escapes? You use Tool1 to clean the puncture, not to hold the air. You need to move Tool1 up and down the puncture repeatedly for the puncture to be cleaned and for Tool2 to slide in more smoothly.
After the plug is inserted, rotate Tool2 in anticlockwise direction 1/4 rotations so the plug slides out of the slit and the Tool can be removed. I don't understand how simply pulling out Tool2 would help, although it may work in a crude way. This is how I have been fixing punctures for the last 4 years and my puncture has lasted the life of the tire.