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justcruisin01


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We see & read a lot about what different people carry in the line of spares. Some carry a lot & others none, maybe run on good luck.

This does vary a lot depending on the locations of travell & the ability of people to use these items.

One thing that we see is tyre repair kits of verious types.

How many of these have, or have the owners thought to add is a couple of tubless tyre valve stems & a method of fitting them.

These can be damaged in 4x4 driving, sticks, bogs, rocks in river crossings, all of which can tear these out.

JC.



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I had a tyre valve stem tear out probably due to age, but found I had to dismount the tyre from the rim to insert the new valve stem which insert from inside the tyre, so you'd need to carry a beadbreaker plus tyre levers to dismount the tyre.

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hako wrote:

I had a tyre valve stem tear out probably due to age, but found I had to dismount the tyre from the rim to insert the new valve stem which insert from inside the tyre, so you'd need to carry a beadbreaker plus tyre levers to dismount the tyre.

 Thats true, but only need to break a section of bead beside to valve & push down just enough to insert valve stem. Thats unless the beads have been broken due to the flat trye.



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I replaced the rubber valve stems on my trailer with metal valve stems froma motor cycle spares place.
You can get them from straight to 90 degree angles.
I changed mine so I could use the tyre dog system so that I have continuous display of tyre pressures of all tyres on my bus and trailer.
The rubber ones not only go soft and leak but with the tyre dog heads they tended to let the transmitters hit the rims whilst now with the metal ones they are rock solid.
They cost about $7.50 per wheel and should last for the life of the rim at least.
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