Either you need a new valve, or the valve's outer is not seated properly on the wheel.
A tyre place will probably fix this for not much money!
A tyre place will probably fix this for not much money!
Thanks Stanleysteamer, do you mean a valve remover can do this job? What do you mean by tyre place?
You need to get hold of or make a valve removing tool, a pair of strong tweezers or a fine needle nose pliers should do the job. Just use them to take hold of the valve inside the thicker black rubber outer and unwind it anti-clockwise. The tyre will deflate obviously. Then replace it with a good one.
But, if the thing that holds the valve is not properly seated you may have to take it to a place that fits new tyres to get them to hoick it out and replace it with a new one and a valve.
But before you do any of this make sure that it isn't simply a question of a loose valve. Find or make up a tool to tighten it up inside the valve holder/outer. that may be all the problem is.
Also make sure that the tyre isn't just deflating because the wheel is corroded near the valve and the tyre rim is not seating properly on the wheel.
This is very common with aluminium wheels and you may have to take the wheel to a tyre place where they will remove the tyre, clean up the inside of the rim and then replace it. Cost is peanuts. I end up doing this about once every two years with one wheel or another.
Tenebreaux
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I have an old screwdriver, end sawn off, two blades in the junior hacksaw then cut a slot down the shaft. Works a treat for tightening tyre valves.
Nice one!
Great!
When I went to get some new ones, the tyre place I regularly use gave me a handful of the ones they take off whenever they put a new tyre on, for nothing. So if you try this you may be lucky.
Of course there is always the possibility that there is a piece of foreign matter either in the valve or in its seat.
That's why using something to push the valve down further than normal can help, bigger valve opening to let it blow through
Yep, got that, but if it is a persistent beggar, or too big to get through the gap....
Conversely, giving it another blast from the tye inflator, perhaps with the valve at the bottom of the wheel, may blow the foreign object back into the tyre. to come out again later!
As a general rule, tighten right up then undo 1/4 to 1/2 a turn i'd say. Any others with different views?
Looks as if it was a foreign object, or a dodgy valve. Pleased you've solved it!
(My tyre pressure gauge has a black plastic thing on it which can be used to open and close the valves so they don't need to be done up very tight!)
Well that's me told! Thanks for the words from a pro!
(Although it prolly would come to much the same. Depends on what you/I/ anyone else mean by "tight"!)
That's it, too loose and it'll leak or come undone, too tight and you risk damaging the seal and it leaks.Well that's me told! Thanks for the words from a pro!
(Although it prolly would come to much the same. Depends on what you/I/ anyone else mean by "tight"!)
Goldilocks got it right
Same with sparkplugs! Wonder if she was a mechanic?
Pretty sure it was porridge, not sparkplugs
