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Finding the valve stems on the rear duals
Yahoo Message Number: 23125
Usually the best solutions are the easiest ones, even if it does take me awhile to figure them out.

I plan on eventually getting metal valve stems to replace the factory rubber ones, but I haven't found a good truck place locally I feel comfortable entrusting my LD to just yet.  I use a dial air gauge with the dual foot to check air pressure.
My biggest problem on the rear tires is usually just finding the valve stems.  In the past this involved getting down on my knees with a flashlight and peering in every hole in the wheel covers until I found one of the stems.  Sometimes I even had to get down on my shoulder and peer up between the tires to find the stems.

No more!  I had a brainstorm yesterday.
So I sat down this afternoon with a label maker and made 4 small labels that say "Valve" in black ink on clear tape.  Then I went out and located the valve stems and just stuck a label on the wheel cover behind each of the appropriate holes.
Unless you're looking for them they're not even noticeable, but it sure will make checking the air pressure easier in the future.

Maybe this will help somebody else who has the same problem.

Charles

2003 blue 26.5 MB
 
Finding the valve stems on the rear
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Yahoo Message Number: 23134
Thanks  Charles
 I am just not 100% sold on the valve extensions yet, and that sounds like a good idea.  First, one of the LDers coming home from LA with her new extensions had a leak from the installation, and Second, the tire dealer up here did not reccommend them.  Now maybe that was because he does not sell them, but I am still holding out.  Trying to keep an open mind.

Pat (Mac) No Cal