Rear brakes smokin'!!
On I 95 north of Baltimore. Very heavy 60 mph to zero and back to 60 again, over and over and over. Started smelling something hot and the TPS fired off on both of the rear inner duals being over temp...
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Horsedoc wrote:
Would love to have a TPMS, but as many have said, the leaking aspect overshadows that. I may try to pick up an infrared thermometer. I trucked for a few years in a former life and blew a couple of recaps off the trailer. That was in the day when the 'cold caps' were all the rage. They were fine until one turned loose - then it was not pretty!
never had a leak....in fact the only problem i did have was a cracked valve stem (should have had 'em change 'em when they put new tires on).....the valve stem was fractured at the nut/wheel - over a year after i had new tires put on & had driven several 6 or 8000 miles that year.
I went over to my coach / storage bay to turn the fridge on for a trip & turned my TST TPMS monitor on and discovered my front steer tire was down to 80 lbs....took me a while but eventually (w/ some soap and water) i found the leak....aired the tire up and took it to the shop.
if someone is threading the cap/sensors on properly i see no chance for a leak - they even have security caps to keep the sensors from spinning loose - i ran 'em for a year & then removed the caps & have run w/out the security caps for 2 years now.
initially i was fearful of theft but to solve that i put a little dab of thread lock on the valve stem - but I've never had anyone mess w/ 'em. you could do the same thing (and continue to use the security caps) to prevent loosening too....but again its a non issue.
if thats not enough to calm fears then go w/ the INTERNAL sensors (5 or 10 yr battery life) from TST...theyll never LEAK or be stolen !
