How to repair a tire pressure gauge?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by A Bug, Jan 5, 2019.
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I think you guys are missing the point a little bit. You shouldn’t lose 10 psi over a few weeks. No need to check 18 tires with a tire gauge every morning on your pre trip. Check your tire pressure with a gauge once every 2-3 weeks if you want. Outside of that, if you are losing tire psi that much and that quick, you have a puncture somewhere and quick kick with your boot or tire thumper will let you know you have a good leak somewhere. That’s the reason for using this method on a daily basis. Nobody gonna do a daily prettily with a tire gauge and all those tires. I think that most of you guys just like to make argument for the sake of it. Use your common sense. Don’t go checking all your tires with a gauge every morning. Use your boot. Unless you like unscrewing all those valve stems.
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not exactly.
This ain't rocket science; take a thumper and whack the tire and it sounds off - dull thud is a problem.
That counts in my book as "checking your tires."
Nobody sane puts a gage to 18 tires every day. If you do - U possibly have OCD.
I had a problem with Goodyear tires developing cracks in the molded in rings around the sidewalls.
I bought 6 of these and thought it was good to go for awhile. Then about a month later, a blowout.
Thought it was a random event, till I found one low - you guessed it - by thumping it. Leaked thru sidewall.
Long story short, next blowout I took them all off, and while I was dismounting them
you could see the pressure was fracturing all the casing at that ring seam. Goodbye Goodyear.
I took a cutoff wheel and ground notch in tip to fit side recesses on the valve stem.
Outside was too wide also, so I ground OD to fit in valve body. No more looking for a tool; it's in there. -
I'd just buy a rebuild kit if I needed one.
https://www.miltonindustries.com/inflator-gage-overhaul-kit.html
I've had mine since 1995, and it still doesn't leak though.Lepton1 Thanks this.
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