Valve stem question

[dalnchel]

We recently bought a used Fleetwood Storm. The rear inner wheels have the braided valve stem extensions and the outer tires the valve stem faces inwards and I am unable to get a tire gauge on it, not even the push/pull type gauge.
My question is, today we bought 135* solid valve stem extenions for the outer tires, (our valve stems are steel) when I started to screw these extensions on to the current stem, air started coming out... no instructions on how to install, I thought it looked pretty straight forward, but apparently not. Can anyone tell me how these are installed or what I am doing wrong?

[jtovosr]

I meant to also say, one of the best investmeents you can make is a good tire monitoring system.
If you blow a tire the damage it does to your motor home is alot more expensive than you'll pay for the montoring system.

[jtovosr]

The extentions are not reliable, they will leak sooner or later you can be sure of that. You need a 90 Degree truck tire gauge & throw all the extentions away.

[dalnchel]

Ok. I did not put them all the way on, once I heard air coming out I thought I had done something wrong so will give it another try tomorrow I guess. I have read a lot of the posts about the braided extensions...will keep a close eye on those and may eventually go another route. A lot to learn on these motor homes coming from a 19 ft. TT
Thank you for responding.

[willald]

I have same setup on mine - braided extensions on inners, solid 135 deg. extensions on outers. I could not get to the valve stem on the outers any other way (no matter what type of gauge I used).

I put the 135 deg. extensions on the outers myself. Yes, a little air leaks out when you first put them on, but it should stop when you get them on good and tight. I don't recall more than just a little air leaking out when first installing those. If they're leaking no matter how tight you get them, something is definitely wrong.

You're probably going to get lots of posts here telling you that the braided extensions on the inners are a bad idea, and will leak. I've watched ours very closely, and after a year of ownership, have not experience ANY leakage from them at all. I am still leary of them, and will probably one day replace them with solid extensions of some kind. But, reality is that they have worked great so far for us.