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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / February 2006Strange tool question/idea
Had someone come in today and ask me a question about flat tires on 4X4s. He had been out wheeling and managed to tear off the valve stem. OOPS. His question was does anyone make a device that could be put into the VS hole to allow you to reinflate and get to a shop without breaking the bead? I looked through a few catalogs here but many cater to hard parts and body items. None really have much emergency type items. I imagine someone makes one but since my routine is to break the bead, pop in the new stem and inflate I've never really looked. Any Ideas?  SignatureSteve I don't believe such a thing exists. I have never heard of it anyway. Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) > Had someone come in today and ask me a question about flat tires on > 4X4s. He had been out wheeling and managed to tear off the valve stem. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- This is a neat idea, and I can think of several ways it could be done. Or, you could sell him truck valvestems that bolt in. -Dave > His question was does anyone make a device that could be put into the VS > hole to allow you to reinflate and get to a shop without breaking the > bead? I looked through a few catalogs here but many cater to hard parts > and body items. None really have much emergency type items. I imagine > someone makes one but since my routine is to break the bead, pop in the > new stem and inflate I've never really looked. I recall, back when I did tire work, that we had a thin funnel thing which was shoved into the hole. The tire valve was screwed into a handle and with some rubber lube you could press the valve stem down the funnel and it would expand back and seal as though it were installed from inside the rim. Sort of like those mushroom plugs that are used for plugging tires. Dunno who made them or if they are still around (Coates maybe??). B~ > > His question was does anyone make a device that could be put into the VS > > hole to allow you to reinflate and get to a shop without breaking the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Dunno who made them or if they are still around (Coates maybe??). Quick Google search gave: http://www.naxja.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-20775.html which led to: http://community.webshots.com/album/122673666YTKbXM First 3 pics. Doesn't say who made it, though. B. Peg is right, KD tools used to make a kit with the "funnel" and other tools to do this. My dad has one that he bought about 20 years ago. It works great if you can find one. Maybe E-bay? Signaturedewaynep http://www.automotiveforums.com |
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