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I added Tire Slime to my tire to fix a slow leak and it worked great. However, it caused my tire to become imbalanced, and I wanted to remove the Slime without taking it in to the shop. This is how I did it.

Step 0) Set aside at least 20 minutes per tire because this will take a while, even though it’s not difficult.

Step 1) Get a “Flavor Injector” from the grocery store. It’s used to inject liquids into turkey, and it’s really just a large syringe. Unscrew the scary metal spike from it.

Step 2) Take your formerly scary syringe to the hobby store and get some small copper tubing. Most decent hobby stores will have a K&S display stand where you can buy small bits of metal rods, tubes, and plates. As you can see in the video, K&S 1186 (3/32″) worked perfectly for my syringe. Depending on who made your flavor injector, you might need a different sized tubing. Just remember that if the tubing is too big (more than 0.2″ in) it won’t fit inside the valve stem, and if it’s too small (less than ?”) the Slime could clot in the tube the same way it repairs the holes in your tire. Even if it doesn’t clot, it’ll take forever to suck it out and you could die from boredom. The fact that it was removed through a 3/32″ tube makes me wonder about their claim of sealing a 1/4″ hole in the tire, but this isn’t a rubber tube so who knows.

Step 3) Attach the tubing to the flavor syringe. I used heat-shrink tubing and was very happy. The biggest benefit of the heat-shrink is that I could easily separate the tubing and the syringe (as opposed to gluing them together or something). This was great when the syringe became filled with slime and I wanted to empty it since I did not have to remove the copper tube from the tire and make a mess.

Step 4) Jack up the car so that the tire is off of the ground, and rotate the tire so that the valve stem is on the bottom. Lift the car as high as you are comfortable with, as this will cause the Slime to pool not only at the bottom of the tire, but also at the “back” of the tire (as seen from the perspective of this video). I did not have it jacked up very high here, just to make the video a little easier. Let the tire sit there for as long as you want so that all the slime pools at the bottom. An hour should be plenty of time. Unscrew the valve from the stem and deflate the tire (the same way you did to get the slime in there in the first place). If you have slime in more than one tire, then you might want to jack up each tire and rotate the valve stem to the bottom before you begin anything, so that the slime has a chance to pool to the bottom for a longer time as you work on different tires).

Step 5) Put the tube in and try to make sure it touches the bottom of the far side of the tire – you may need to bend the tubing the same way I did in the video. It is very tiring to hold the syringe in the vacuum state for very long, so I used some locking pliers to lock the syringe open. If you don’t have 3 hands, the technique I used in the video of using the pliers to push the syringe body as you pull the plunger worked well (you might need to practice it a bit though

Step 6) Suck that stuff out of there! I was able to pull more than half of the slime out – I imagine I could have gotten more if I let the tire sit longer, but my tires are now in balance, so I don’t really care.

Step 7) Use a Q-tip to clean out the valve stem before putting the valve back in there. Then screw it all back together and reinflate the tire. Congratulations on your tires which are in balance and do not vibrate and embarrass you when you take your co-workers to lunch! Not that I would know anything about that.

Thanks very much to my friend Tom B. for playing McGuyver and telling me where I can get small copper tubes and giant syringes!

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