Off-road vehicle tire repair patch, kit, and method

Method of field-repairing a tear in a sidewall of a pneumatic off-road vehicle tire, comprising the steps of:

• providing an inside patch component adapted to be positioned on an inner surface of the sidewall, and having a hole therethrough;
• providing an outside patch component adapted to be positioned on an outer surface of the sidewall, and having a hole therethrough;
• providing a compressing component for assembling, joining and compressing the inner and outer patch components together with the tire sidewall sandwiched therebetween;
• wherein the compressing component comprises a threaded rod having an inner end and an outer end;
• providing a recovery cable component having an inner end and an outer end;
• disposing an inner nut or bolt head on the inner end of the threaded rod;
• stringing the inside patch component onto the recovery cable component;
• temporarily connecting the inner end of the recovery cable component with the outer end of the threaded rod;
• pushing the threaded rod with the nut or bolt head on its inner end through the tear in the sidewall of the tire;
• pushing the inside patch component through the tear into the interior of the tire;
• pulling the threaded rod through the inside patch component hole and out through the tear;
• assembling the outside patch component and an outer nut or removable head on the threaded rod;
• and
• compressing the assembled components by tightening the outer nut or removable head.