Just a quick one.
Been running tubeless with the same tyres for a while now, need to clean out the old sealent and replace with a top up so going to take the whole tyre off.
Will I need a compressor/floor pump to re-inflate?
Or will a hand pump do as the tyres going to already be the correct 'mould' to the rim as such.
Thanks
TomO
Why do you need to 'clean out' the old sealant?
I'd guess he means remove the rats nest lump of dried latex that forms.
You should be fine with a track pump.
just deflate the tyres,peel back the tyre from the rim strip enough to add the sealant, add more sealant and reinflate, much more chance of a re seal if you do it this way, track pump will be fine
Even better, remove the valve core and squirt in with a syringe. No breaking of the seal that way. And yeas, just add more.
I'd been running the same tyres for almost a year before the rear was so worn out I was topping up every month. The dried out latex (certainly about 400ml of stans went in to that wheel) weighed almost nothing when I could peel it off. Maybe 80 g total for the entire tyre.
So no, not worth peeling it off.
