I went through a lot of trouble with a front tire tube on one of my tractors. I have found that you really need to submerge the puncture to find a difficult leak. I used a sink since the tire was a 5.50X16, but you could use a cow trough or any still water. It turns out that there was a thorn in my tire that barely protruded from the casing and would puncture the tube when I inflated to about 10 psi, but not before. I took the tube out at least six times before I found the problem. Also, I mow the lawn at work, and they have a SCAG mower that the boss likes to borrow for his personal projects. One annual project is a property with lots of thorns, which he doesn't hesitate to drive through. Rather than replace the tubes every year, he just loaded them with a bunch of slime. It does work, but acts like a very slow leak. I have to air up the tires every two or three weeks. Of course, there are probably 10+ thorns in each tube by this point. Additionally, sometimes the tires leak faster, depending on how the tire is oriented when sitting. In my experience, slime is more of a stop gap than a fix. Also, service people hate having to clean the slime out of the inside of a tire and rim.
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