AndyK

After sanding the curb rash out of my soon-to-be-powder coated D90's, and jacking the car up to paint my rusty front rotor hat (only did one today)...in 95 degree sun...I am drawing a blank.

How the hell do the rubber valve stems come out of the rims???

streckfu's

Remove the tire. They are held on form the inside. Right?

AndyK

Of course the tires are off. Do I just pry them out, or do the screw out...etc??

Kurt R

Just cut them and go buy new ones. You can get a knife to the back side fairly easy.

Operator

yea just get plyers and pull them out. they will come out. cut them, rip them, whatever. the new ones are pushed into place with force too i imagine. i dont think you can really re-use them once you take em out most of the time anyway. i got a nice set on ebay

andy youre gonna get rid of those awesome 968 c2 rims? for shame.

Yabo

just pull em out. Stems are like 2 bucks at the parts store.

AndyK

Not sure I'll get rid of the 968 rims. But for some reason, I like the D90's better...a little less like every other 5-spoke rim around lately.

The valve stems are crappy rubber anyway--not looking to save them. Just need to get them out before bringing them to the powder coat place tonight!

PS--That Rustoleum Hammered metal silver paint really makes the rotor look new! I'll post some photos when I'm done!