Valves not lined up with wheels

Does it really make any difference? If you have steel rims with with 5 vent holes they can't be lined up opposing each other anyway.

 

They make a torque wrench for valve cores. You should get one , then you can make sure there in right. You dont want a air leak to cause a blow out...........

 

Page 3 of this thread it did matter to me apparently lol. Well here's the thing, it's nothing to line them up opposing with the 2 vent hole steel wheels so that's what I always did. My trailer now has the 5 vent hole wheels so it doesn't really matter.

 

Who installed those tars?

 

Use a tire bar and bend the valve stem from the get go. There is an art to that and always install new valve stems wire new tires. should be good for the life of the tire.

 

DOT does not give a where your valve stems are!
If your were in charge of airing up tires for a major fleet you would run off people who mount tires with valve stems all over the board if you could. Here it is Dayton stems together, 2,8 & 10 holes at 180, and 5 holes as close to that as possible. If some jerk put them where you cannot check the inside with a gauge thump it and roll. If I were an O/O with good tires I would get them properly aligned.
Valve stems together in disc wheels can make difficult to get to the one on the inside.

 

Did not know that thanks.