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Giddy up giddy up...
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: US
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I'm a freshman at college now, only been a week and someone already cut a valvestem on my truck!!!
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Wiseass secured himself a BAN
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: MOON!!!
Posts: 2,282
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Your way better off getting the/a spare and driving to a fix a flat place and having them put in the valve stem for you. Or you can have buddy take you. Get yourself some metal valve stems for all for wheels.
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![]() Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Posts: 5,817
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Go to a junk yard and get a steel wheel with the same lug pattern and a basic tire on it. Make sure it's up to pressure, and is roughly the same diameter. Put it on the truck, but you don't have to drive it. Just leave it in the parking lot.
This'll keep campus security from calling a tow truck. If you took the wheel off and left the truck sitting there on cinder blocks they'd most certainly call someone and you'd get stuck with a HUGE bill. ...then take your original wheel and tire to a tire shop and get it fixed. This is the fastest and headache free method to fixing this. Working on your truck in the parking lot is for the birds, and campus security might decide to give you trouble.
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Resident Young Old Dude !
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Nevada
Posts: 1,948
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You HAVE to break the bead..... they actually use a special wrench to install it, but you can do it with a set of pliers if you're careful with the threads. Put something like a grease compound on the stem before attempting to pull it through though, it will make it easier. To break the bead, you can use a bumper jack, and a car/truck. Put the tire under the bumper of the vehicle and use the jack as though you are jacking up the vehicle, but put the flat part of the jack on the tire right up against the wheel/tire bead, then start jacking, the weight of the vehicle will force the jack to break the bead. then install the stem, and air it back up.
Been there, done that.... Ron |
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