Tire Valve Stems

[Skyco]

I've been aware of the need for the HP metal stems for 16 years or so because by F350 came with them in the original wheels.
I've been around and around with tire dealers over the years about this, almost every one of them has been completely clueless about the need for proper stems.
Same thing with a proper patch, the type with the bonded flange inside the tire and the integral rubber plug filling the hole.
I got really PO'd recently when I took a properly patched, by me, tire to the dealer I bought it from to have it rebalanced. That was all I asked for, to have it balanced.
The idiot in the shop dismounted the tire and removed the proper patch and replaced it with just an interior patch, leaving the hole open in the tire
I took it back home, dismounted it and patched it correctly- again.
I didn't even say anything, it is pointless, they think they are the tire experts.
For those that don't know why it is important to seal the hole and the interior it is to keep either air (from the inside) or water from the outside getting in between the tire layers and causing separations. I read where the steel belts can even rust causing even more likelyhood of separating.

http://www.techtirerepairs.com/catalog/CatalogFiles/Links/291UL_292UL_Flyer.pdf

 

[Bird]

Metal can last a lifetime... one of my cars has the metal stems from 1930... still on the job.

1930????

I had not heard of the problems with the valve stems. The only time I've had a problem with one was in June, 2000, on a 1999 Ford Escort. I pulled the wheel off, checked the whole tire with soapy water without finding the leak, even around the valve stem. I was about ready to give up, when I found that if I wiggled the valve stem it leaked around it. I just attributed it to one bad one which can happen with any product.

Now of course, one day while gathering and piling brush with the pallet forks on my B2710 Kubota, somehow or other, I tore a valve stem right out of the left front wheel.:laughing:

 

[jonyyuma]

Bird, my mystery leak on my tractor front 4x4 tire. The valve stem had air bubbling at the brass threads.Some how the stem had seperated from the metal valve part..Couldn't get any thing to seal it up. I pulled it and installed new short 1 inch hi-performance steel stem..It fits from inside and has a nut to tighten on the outside. leak solved..

 

[ultrarunner]

My two Milton #505 arrived today and they are made in USA and fully serviceable...

I did notice in the caution section not to use GAGE to check pressure with puncture proof liquids, chemical, anti-freeze liquids as used on Farm Tractors and not to pressurize any tank containing liquids...

Well, that just about covers all of my uses... I will have to be extra careful.

 

[newbury]

Re: Tire Valve Stems - where best to get metal ones online?

Bringing up this thread again -
Putting on 4 new trailer tires from Costco, (Greenball) wanted metal tire stems. Costco doesn't sell them, called all the "major" auto stores around - Pep Boys, Autozone, NTB, Merchants Tire - NOPE - Autozone said they sold "chromed plastic", Merchants will put them in IF you buy the tire and mounting package.

Alban Tire had some for $6 apiece.

I've got about 20 tires to replace in the next couple of years. I'd like to just get a box of valves and put them on the shelf.

Any recommended places?

 

[schmism]

amazon has everything.

various metal styles (inside mount, outside mount, bent etc) ~$9 for set of 4

Amazon.com: Gorilla Automotive VS402C Inner Mount Valve Stems: Automotive

 

[newbury]

amazon has everything.

various metal styles (inside mount, outside mount, bent etc) ~$9 for set of 4

Amazon.com: Gorilla Automotive VS402C Inner Mount Valve Stems: Automotive

Yes, I saw that, but that "search" on amazon turned up 2,289 hits - and probably most of them for valve stem caps.

That's why I was asking here.

And on Grainger I can get

in a 100 pack for $133. HALTEC Truck/Bus Tire Valve, 2 In, Pk 100 - Tire Valve Stems and Cores - 33W546|TV-500A-100 - Grainger Industrial Supply
so I was wondering where the TBN'ers buy their valves.

 

[crazyal]

I buy valve stems and patches from BlackJack. The use EDPM (not natural rubber) when they make their stems.

Valve Stems & Components - BlackJack Tire Repair

 

[ultrarunner]

Someone had posted metal is required for 50 psi and above by DOT regs.

My old truck tire shop in town has lots of metal stems...

There are wholesale houses that cater to tire shops... I bought a box of Schrader stems from one...

 

[JIGBUILDER]

Our 3/4 and one ton trucks running LTL or private hauler come OEM with high pressure rubber snapins for decades which are rated at 100 psi.