valve stem points inside on rear dual tires?
I purchased a 98 Four Winds Class C in December and it has been parked since I brought it home. The snow is about gone so I wanted to check the air in the tires; but the valve stem on the rear outsi...
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j-d,
do you think the straight shoe air tools offer much ease over the two 45 deg slanted shoe tool (which i have been using all along?
you may recall telling me we were blessed when the rubber valve on the inner passenger dually failed near the campground, with no damage - just a new metal valve w/ (i now understand to be) a capless extender. i appreciated your kind thought. i recently posted about a bad blowout of that very tire, though all 4 rears were showing the tread coming unglued from the inner part of tire. your thought still really holds for us and the dogs.
2 field new tire mounts kept the metal stem i described above and a rubber one. but w/ other new tires, i also have 4 new valves.like this
in lieu of going back for all metal (that i wish they had discussed while mounting}, someone mentioned in this thread about using valve extenders only when adding/checking air, a 4" extender screwed onto inner duallys just to add air sounds great.
are there long extenders that could be used like this?
do you think the straight shoe air tools offer much ease over the two 45 deg slanted shoe tool (which i have been using all along?
you may recall telling me we were blessed when the rubber valve on the inner passenger dually failed near the campground, with no damage - just a new metal valve w/ (i now understand to be) a capless extender. i appreciated your kind thought. i recently posted about a bad blowout of that very tire, though all 4 rears were showing the tread coming unglued from the inner part of tire. your thought still really holds for us and the dogs.
2 field new tire mounts kept the metal stem i described above and a rubber one. but w/ other new tires, i also have 4 new valves.like this
in lieu of going back for all metal (that i wish they had discussed while mounting}, someone mentioned in this thread about using valve extenders only when adding/checking air, a 4" extender screwed onto inner duallys just to add air sounds great.
are there long extenders that could be used like this?
