Have wheels with metal valve stems and you have a slow leak in..
01-13-2005, 12:32 PM
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Have wheels with metal valve stems and you have a slow leak in..
your tire? Check the gasket where the valve stem threads into the wheel. Alan at Mind Over Motorsports in San Diego found this little problem for me...in fact it was a big problem because the right rear tire had lost 16 Lbs. of air.
I am driving down the road and I have to decelerate (Yes, this happens from time to time!), and the tail of the car is very unstable. It was so bad that I thought my kinematic toe was totally out of adjustment. So I went back home to check for the obvious (When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras!)*
I checked the rear tire pressures...the left rear was down to 20 Lbs, and the right at 36 Lbs, not a good combination. As mentioned above, Alan found the problem, and now I am getting all new valves stem seals, all tire, something to think about.
*Note this rule is the reciprocal when in Africa.
I am driving down the road and I have to decelerate (Yes, this happens from time to time!), and the tail of the car is very unstable. It was so bad that I thought my kinematic toe was totally out of adjustment. So I went back home to check for the obvious (When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras!)*
I checked the rear tire pressures...the left rear was down to 20 Lbs, and the right at 36 Lbs, not a good combination. As mentioned above, Alan found the problem, and now I am getting all new valves stem seals, all tire, something to think about.
*Note this rule is the reciprocal when in Africa.
01-13-2005, 01:07 PM
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On the metal valve stem train of thought... I found that BBS stems fit Cup II wheels nicely. Others tried did not fit.
Last edited by Tom W; 01-13-2005 at 02:48 PM.
