Is there any hope of safely repairing this track? Just got home from my first ride of the year and found this. It’s cut through the base of the lug and through the edge of the track. Is loctite 404 and some stitching good enough?
Thank you for any replies
I wouldn't have high hopes that glue or tying it together will hold long term. A couple hundred miles, possibly, a couple thousand miles, no. You could spin over something hard again it will tear it open more.
We tired the loctite 404. its just cracked. too brittle We fixed about 6-7 splits like this
We did the repair this summer haven't tried it out yet. We used E6000 and 3K plain weave Carbon fibre cloth fabric(amazon) did a coating of the E6000 set the finer cloth into it and re coat over top to saturate the cloth.
I use ECRF cold bond to repair tracks. When I get a tear I use Kevlar string and stitch for strength then coat with a couple layers of the ECRF. Works really good.
I check my track after each ride and make repairs to ripped lugs as necessary.
Bond all the seams back together with E6000. Wipe off excess glue. Then stitch it together with braided fishing line. Then cover the stitches and entire area with another coat of E6000. Then just look it over after every ride.
There is a product called Glue Tread, that is used to fix sidewall cuts on ATV / UTV tires. Seems to work very well for that application. If i recall, they even have a version of it that is used on car & truck tires.
You might do a little research on it to see if this might be a possibility for your situation.