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Skipg
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Jul 25, 2014

Airing up rear duellys

Why do all MH manufactures put the air fill valve stems for the out side duelly tire facing in instead of facing out for easy air check and fill? Also why is the inside tire valve so short? It's such an easy fix at the time the tires are mounted during the build. Now I have to use extensions in order to to ues my TPMS. Am I missing something? Thanks Skip
  • Sometimes when you are rotating the tires, you might realize that the same long stem that you are requesting for the inner tire will also be the "Extra long and pointed the wrong way" stem that was on the outer tire and now is the inner rim.

    So in reality, the stems are pointing the same direction on all the rims. Outward on the inner rims and inward on the outer rims. The stem needs to be somewhat short when that rim is mounted on the outside rear, and can be a little longer when mounted on the front or rear inner dual.

    You can buy stems that are longer, should you desire to never rotate the rims from the inner dual position.

    Fred.
  • My MH came with those extentions already installed. I thought all MHs came with them.
  • I would put EZ fill extensions on!

    A friend with a DRW and I where talking about the benefits of his DRW and my 19.5 setup, as both can't be loaded to their capacity without overloading the frame. We have had this discussion a few times over the last year or so, but 3 weeks ago I helped him air up his duals... nope keeping my SRW. That was a HUGE PITA, actually PITH (Hand). Sure extensions would help, but still pretty amazing companies don't find a way to make it easier.