Recently a somewhat annoying slow leak in my tire has become a faster one. It appears that the problem is the tire stem valve. I noticed the one that is leaking is slightly different than the 2 rear tires. Th
is one isn't bolted to the steel rim like the others. It turns out that rims on these old trucks have an oval, not round, cutout for the valve stem. And I now realize how scarce the requi
red oval stems are to come by, which probably explains why only 2 of my four tires had the correct ones in them. My local tire guy was able to locate 4 new oval valve stems from an olditme supplier he has been dealing with for years. Later this Spring I will swap out all four with these new ones.
Recently a somewhat annoying slow leak in my tire has become a faster one. It appears that the problem is the tire stem valve. I noticed the one that is leaking is slightly different than the 2 rear tires. This one isn't bolted to the steel rim like the others. It turns out that rims on these old trucks have an oval, not round, cutout for the valve stem. And I now realize how scarce the requi
red oval stems are to come by, which probably explains why only 2 of my four tires had the correct ones in them. My local tire guy was able to locate 4 new oval valve stems from an olditme supplier he has been dealing with for years. Later this Spring I will swap out all four with these new ones.
