Tires & Valve stems

[steven d. ferguson]

I am not a zealot -- just concerned and --

Thanks Emery. I screwed up and bought the installers recommendation on
my G159's & have run them for about 1000 miles at 65 psi.
One more thing......One of my wheels has a rubber valve stem, I've been
thinking about that and it worries me that in all the heavy duty tire
applications I've seen the stems are steel. ??
TIA,
Steve Ferguson
San Diego

 

[wayne newland]

If you had your tires mounted at a truck tire shop, you should have gotten
steel valve stems (unless they ran out or the changer got lazy) Steel
would be better with the air pressures we use.

Wayne Newland F9300 75 Palm Beach Columbia, Md

> I am not a zealot -- just concerned and --
>
> Thanks Emery. I screwed up and bought the installers recommendation on
> my G159's & have run them for about 1000 miles at 65 psi.
> One more thing......One of my wheels has a rubber valve stem, I've been
> thinking about that and it worries me that in all the heavy duty tire
> applications I've seen the stems are steel. ??
> TIA,
> Steve Ferguson
> San Diego

 

[darren paget]

Replace it. A rubber valve stem will not survive under 80+ loads.
Darren

>
> I am not a zealot -- just concerned and --
>
> Thanks Emery. I screwed up and bought the installers recommendation on
> my G159's & have run them for about 1000 miles at 65 psi.
> One more thing......One of my wheels has a rubber valve stem, I've been
> thinking about that and it worries me that in all the heavy duty tire
> applications I've seen the stems are steel. ??
> TIA,
> Steve Ferguson
> San Diego

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