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Cracked valve stem
yoshmyster
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First time ever. Got off work and I'm rolling up to my ride and see the passenger rear tire kind a low. Since it was cold I thought weather? I pull up the foot pump and get steppin'. Aerobics [:D]. I keep stepping and the ire's not really getting pumped. Get about 20 pounds and the pump breaks. Silly thing ain't use to this Japo's size 12's. Three small spot welds kept that together.
That's when I notice the crack on the valve stem. I know a gas station about a mile or so, so I'm off. Got there and this Shell wants a buck to get air. I thought maybe .50 cents? Then I notice a second box closer to the ground with $1.50 [:0]. Then I look more carefully on the $1.00 box and it's blocked.
So I lift the hood so I might as well get some after, too since I'm paying $1.50 for the use. Got air and it's holding, yay [:D]. I'm thinking over the hill to my tire shop but not too happy about that prospet. But I gots to do what I gots to do. About to get on the road when I notice tires. If they got tires they should have stem.
Turn in to the shop and ask dude if they had tire stems. They do and dude starts on the task. Then the dude asks if I got rodents where I park. I know they got rodents but I'm thinking why would they snack on tire stems? I'm pretty sure the Mexican fellers at the tire shop didn't have burrito juice. Even if they did I got the tires couple of years back.
Then dude point to around rub mark on the side wall and ask if I ean something over? I drive at night so on the crappy stretch of High way 1 so who knows?
Anyways dude says $25.00 [:0]. I'm thinking just because we're here in Carmel Valley, you don't have to charge me downtown Carmel prices. Am I off thinking $10.00 for the job? I don't know what Sikhs eat but I guess lunch is on me. I may not know tire stem R/R prices but I know peeps [:D].
I suppose it's better than me going on cracked valve stem over the "Grade". Than going "over" the Grade with a blow out. I think my * is worth $25.00 even if I don't throw in a suckie suckie [:D]. Wait a tick. What did I pay for the tires? $50? $60? a pop? I also stopped by O'Rieley's to pick up another foot pump. I'm gonna run a bead of wire on the broken one to see if I can weld that. Just in case I burn a hole through the air cylinder. I got a new foot pump at $12.00 and it's blue. The old and broken is yellow that matches me.
That's when I notice the crack on the valve stem. I know a gas station about a mile or so, so I'm off. Got there and this Shell wants a buck to get air. I thought maybe .50 cents? Then I notice a second box closer to the ground with $1.50 [:0]. Then I look more carefully on the $1.00 box and it's blocked.
So I lift the hood so I might as well get some after, too since I'm paying $1.50 for the use. Got air and it's holding, yay [:D]. I'm thinking over the hill to my tire shop but not too happy about that prospet. But I gots to do what I gots to do. About to get on the road when I notice tires. If they got tires they should have stem.
Turn in to the shop and ask dude if they had tire stems. They do and dude starts on the task. Then the dude asks if I got rodents where I park. I know they got rodents but I'm thinking why would they snack on tire stems? I'm pretty sure the Mexican fellers at the tire shop didn't have burrito juice. Even if they did I got the tires couple of years back.
Then dude point to around rub mark on the side wall and ask if I ean something over? I drive at night so on the crappy stretch of High way 1 so who knows?
Anyways dude says $25.00 [:0]. I'm thinking just because we're here in Carmel Valley, you don't have to charge me downtown Carmel prices. Am I off thinking $10.00 for the job? I don't know what Sikhs eat but I guess lunch is on me. I may not know tire stem R/R prices but I know peeps [:D].
I suppose it's better than me going on cracked valve stem over the "Grade". Than going "over" the Grade with a blow out. I think my * is worth $25.00 even if I don't throw in a suckie suckie [:D]. Wait a tick. What did I pay for the tires? $50? $60? a pop? I also stopped by O'Rieley's to pick up another foot pump. I'm gonna run a bead of wire on the broken one to see if I can weld that. Just in case I burn a hole through the air cylinder. I got a new foot pump at $12.00 and it's blue. The old and broken is yellow that matches me.
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I paid 15.00 each to have 4 new tires mounded and balance + new stems and was pissed [:D]
your story reminds me of family vacation
how much you got [:D]
Margaret Thatcher
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Metal, or down the road I go.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
A replacement stem has to be installed from the inside. So, the tire guy has to break the bead, remove the stem core, install the new stem, screw the core back in the stem, inflate the tire, & re-balance it.
Yeah, it may be a 25 cent stem, but you are paying for labor & overhead.
Just be grateful you don't have to replace a stem with a sensor.
Neal
That price is not out of line.
A replacement stem has to be installed from the inside. So, the tire guy has to break the bead, remove the stem core, install the new stem, screw the core back in the stem, inflate the tire, & re-balance it.
Yeah, it may be a 25 cent stem, but you are paying for labor & overhead.
Just be grateful you don't have to replace a stem with a sensor.
Neal
Thats not how the replacement stems I have work. You lube them and squeeze them with a tool and pop the head through the hole. done. Yes the clamp in ones have to be done from the inside. But the rubber ones go in from the outside.
quote:Originally posted by nmyers
That price is not out of line.
A replacement stem has to be installed from the inside. So, the tire guy has to break the bead, remove the stem core, install the new stem, screw the core back in the stem, inflate the tire, & re-balance it.
Yeah, it may be a 25 cent stem, but you are paying for labor & overhead.
Just be grateful you don't have to replace a stem with a sensor.
T
Neal
Thats not how the replacement stems I have work. You lube them and squeeze them with a tool and pop the head through the hole. done. Yes the clamp in ones have to be done from the inside. But the rubber ones go in from the outside.
The new ones with a pressure sending unit on them that sends a signal to the vehicle's computer must be inserted from the the inside.
I believe they are made of rubber.
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
quote:Originally posted by nmyers
That price is not out of line.
A replacement stem has to be installed from the inside. So, the tire guy has to break the bead, remove the stem core, install the new stem, screw the core back in the stem, inflate the tire, & re-balance it.
Yeah, it may be a 25 cent stem, but you are paying for labor & overhead.
Just be grateful you don't have to replace a stem with a sensor.
T
Neal
Thats not how the replacement stems I have work. You lube them and squeeze them with a tool and pop the head through the hole. done. Yes the clamp in ones have to be done from the inside. But the rubber ones go in from the outside.
The new ones with a pressure sending unit on them that sends a signal to the vehicle's computer must be inserted from the the inside.
I believe they are made of rubber.
Some of my vehicles have the pressure sending unit attached to the wheel by a steel band. We had a Dodge that was part of the stem though as I recall. (They failed a lot)
Yes I have a foot pump. Had it way before the cigarette lighter compressor was cheap and available. Besides in my ride my home made arm rest (so I can get my gangsta lean on [:D]) blocks the ash tray. So I can't get at the cigarette lighter.
Yeah they broke the bead. I thought they just lubed up and pushed the stem through the hole. Learnt something new.
I have replaced hundreds of stems without having to re-balance.
If they were hillbillies I could've gotten the "homeboy discount" but no dice with the Sikhs.
Yes I have a foot pump. Had it way before the cigarette lighter compressor was cheap and available. Besides in my ride my home made arm rest (so I can get my gangsta lean on [:D]) blocks the ash tray. So I can't get at the cigarette lighter.
Yeah they broke the bead. I thought they just lubed up and pushed the stem through the hole. Learnt something new.
My Car comes with a Pump. But no Spare.
I must be living under a rock, I have never seen stems pushed in from the outside. Learn something new everyday.
I have replaced hundreds of stems without having to re-balance.
I'm with you, course what worked for my daddy, might not be valid today. I usually let the guys at the tire shop take care of that now.
(it's been years since I inflated a tire by twisting a rope around it to seat the bead too)
grumpygy - Air pump but no spare. That's funny. Every few miles you get out and what air it up to the tire shop? Or fill your ride up with balloons?
So after work today I did a walk around to make sure the new stem was holding. While I was at it I checked the other stems and another one was cracked. So off to the tire shop I got the tires from. Stems $2.50 a pop that's fine and to swap $10 a pop not so fine. Basically $40.00 [V].
I'm thinking they installed the cheap Chinese stems in the first place. Yes I know they're all Chinese [:D]. I thought they might cut me some slack to keep a customer. If they charged me half they might've kept me as a customer. Business, right?
After the new stems I looked and saw that the Sikhs put on a longer stem. I got to be careful curbing the ride now with Ron Jeremy stem from rubbing the curb. Wait it's black so Long Dong Silver.
So basically spent $65.00 and $12.00 on a new pump if I keep it. Oh I found the old receipt for the foot pump from 2003 tucked in the box.