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machunt
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Mar 07, 2014

dually tires

How is everyone inflating there tires on there dually.
  • I have to use a strait headed dually air chuck, I tried one like was posted before but the angle the head is at would not let me get a good connection on the inner tire. I have one like this:



    And my valve stems are right behind each other, not 180 degrees off. It would make it easier accessing the inner one if I didn't have to work around the first valve stem.
  • machunt wrote:
    I would like to thank the guys that took my question serious,

    turbo, was that 40$ a tire? as for the others thanks again


    It cost me 40 bucks for both. The shop typically works on dump trucks and 18 wheelers. Took about 35 minutes for the tech to knock it out. He aligned the valves 180 from each other so it makes it even easier to air up...
  • I go to my neighborhood shop and have them do it. No hastle, usually have a cup of coffee and talk to the little cashier while I wait. They also don't charge me, since I have taken them all of my business for the last 40 years.
  • rtz549 wrote:
    Just get a dual head air chuck:


    but you if you have smaller hand holes, you may need a different reverse angle, like 180 degrees, cause that 30º reverse angle will not line up through the hand hole properly to fit on the tire air valve.

    You will notice that one has a 180º reverse chuck, while the other has only a 30º reverse angle chuck.

    Same with the gauges:

    Alcoa sells these gauges and air chucks in both 30º reverse angle and 180º reverse angle.
  • I find the inner ones easy - the straight on end of the chuck goes straight on the valve stem and my chuck has a long handle. The outer wheel is the difficult one. The valve stem has to almost reach the rim opening for that backwards end on the chuck to reach it. And it is awkward to pull it at the right angle. I use a short extender with an end that doesn't need a cap.
  • Dual chuck also but I do have to remove my wheel trim rings to get at the valve stems easily.

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