Do valve cap removal tools work?

Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by camionneur, Dec 31, 2015.

  1. bavarian

    bavarian Heavy Load Member

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    @camionneur,

    Didn't you just buy a torquewrench for your wheel nuts? Maybe you'll find an adapter and you can check the valves and caps for propper torque while you check your nuts.
    You seriously wanna sqeeze 5 pages out of a valve cap topic? Here is my support.
     
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  3. camionneur

    camionneur Road Train Member

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    I torque the valve cores, no joke (it's probably more difficult than positioning a huge wrench). And isn't that European hate thread like a thousand pages, but somehow I keep getting criticized for talking shop in a few? WTF... :brave:

    At any rate, I didn't have much more to say about valve caps. You?
     
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    Reason for edit: There's always a false dichotomy following me around...
  4. BoxCarKidd

    BoxCarKidd Road Train Member

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    I like quality stainless steel flow through caps. The valve core must be flush at the end of the stem or replace the stem. China has surely messed these up with copy cats also and I understand people having bad experiences. Installing new valve stems every time new treads are put on prevents a lot of problems and saves a lot of money. Pulling a different junk trailer every day? Do what you have to do, Good Luck!
     
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    camionneur Road Train Member

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    I'd prefer to call them weathered than junk. As long as the hardware doesn't crumble when I torque on it, but the point here is, it takes a heavy duty valve cap tool to deal with weathered ones (my doubts about those with a rubber sleeve were confirmed, they work okay in general, not for this situation though).
     
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