dawn in MT slicks

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by kansas stocker

Am going tubeless. Do I need to paint the insides and let them sit for a day or two or mount them immediately?
Thanks.
Pete

I always did that with Firestones but that was in the late 1970's around 1977-78. I used Dawn liquid dish washing soap. Some use Palmolive.

[Ed Wright]

I always painted my old Firestones, still leaked some. I have run my MT radials tubless for six years now, doing nothing to them. Seldom have to correct air pressure all weekend. The set on the car now won't loose enough to measure in a couple of weeks.

[Mike Jones]

Do you screw them to the rims without tubes?
I have a set of rims with holes already, that I ran with tubes in.
Would like to go tubeless myself
Thanks, Mike

[Dragsinger]

Mike, with one set of wheels I filled the screw holes with JB Weld. I applied tape inside the bead area and "packed" the JB each hole with a small wooden dowel. They held air fine and stayed in service for several more seasons.

[Eman]

I'm a Palmolive man myself. It does work and for the ease and cost of it why not? I just put new Hoosiers on and did it, why not? I don't use screws just wipe the rim and bead with acetone before filling and if you want you can spray the bead with hair spray, it help prevent them slipping on the rim. I've never filled the holes but use a scotchbrite on a die grinder to remove any burrs. I've used wheels with holes and never filled them and run tubeless with no problem.

[Kevin Panzino]

Not sure what the story behind this is. I’ve had Hoosiers for 5 years that don’t leak a bit without any dish detergent. Heck my front runners are worse.

[Ed Wright]

I never drilled my wheels for screws. Fronts are tubeless, never leak.

[nhramnl]

Originally Posted by Eman

I'm a Palmolive man myself. It does work and for the ease and cost of it why not? I just put new Hoosiers on and did it, why not? I don't use screws just wipe the rim and bead with acetone before filling and if you want you can spray the bead with hair spray, it help prevent them slipping on the rim. I've never filled the holes but use a scotchbrite on a die grinder to remove any burrs. I've used wheels with holes and never filled them and run tubeless with no problem.

For what it's worth, this is what a lot of guys are doing today, with the exception of the dish detergent. That practice started many years ago, almost exclusively with Firestone/Firehawk/Phoenix bias ply slicks. The rubber that made up the sidewalls was so thin that you could wet a mounted tire with soapy water and watch all of the little bubbles form on the surface. They would often go flat in a couple of days. I could certainly be wrong, but I don't know of another tire (especially any radial) that exhibited that behavior.

[1320racer]

Hoosier = no soap and no leaks!

Further, it's the year 2018, who runs rim screws?

I go 1 teens in my door car and 1.0 in my dragster in 60 foot without rim screws!