It was a good day - NOT!
Had a low tire on the camper. Used my compressor and tried to fill. The valve stem blew out! Checking the spare tire and took off the cover. Wasp nest and stung once. Found out bees made a nest in ...
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Grit dog wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:The valve stem blew out!
After you kick that cold one down I'd get your RV into a tire shop and REPLACE all those rubber valve stems with stainless steel valve stems before heading out with it! :C
Been there done that. Day after I bought my first used MH I had one blowout on the road and 2 more flats the next day while driving in Houston with 112 degree temps. Long running time and high heat just melted those **** rubber valve stems. Tow truck driver was the one that pointed out the rubber valve stems where melting. Pulled into the first tire shop and had them all replaced with stainless steel ones.
Melting eh?
Sorry bud, only thing get hot enough maybe to melt rubber is a bad bearing or hung up brake. If your rim was hot enough to melt the valve stems that far from the bearings or hub, then the valve stems were the least of your troubles.
They melted because the Chinese did not vulcanize them properly and little to no uv compound.
We lost four new Michelins on our F150 a few years ago because of the stems. Wholeseller replaced the tires and stems.
There are some still out there.
The push through valve stems with a copper stem inside rubber are no better. Had two or three of them stepped on or bent and the others leaking. Go the extra chnge and get bolt through stainless steel stems and not the long ones either.
