Good afternoon.

Went down to local garage to get my 205/80 Insa Turbos fitted to my freshly refurbished series steel wheels.

I didn't have valves in wheels as the previous garage who removed them and binned them after they took the tyres off. They also ditched the inner tubes as they said modern tyres wouldn't need them.

So, I'm at the garage today and they say they can't find a valve that will fit a hole in the series rim or my single defender rim.

They have told me to come back on Monday when they have spoken to their resident 4x4 specialist.

My question is, can I fit the Insa turbo Dakars to my series rims with out the use of inner tubes?

Also, if I do have to go down the tube route, will I be ale to get the valves that fit the holes on the series rims?

I have some a search, but I can't find an answer that relates to my Insa Turbos.

Thanks in advance

Are the holes too small or too large for the valves? if too small easy drill them larger. Normally you don't need tubes with tubless tyres unless your rims are nacked, should say on the tyres if they are tubless.

i needed inner tubes with my rims cos air was escaping through the rivets.

There are 2 diameter of t/less valves. The smaller size is the commonest, if you have the bigger hole in tyre rim then you will need a nylon ferule to secure the tube valve stem that is common on 205x16 tube . If you have the rim with bigger diameter valve then these are usually rivetted construction , they can leak , but some never do, and the bigger stem will enable you to run tubeless. HTSH

tacr2man said:

There are 2 diameter of t/less valves. The smaller size is the commonest, if you have the bigger hole in tyre rim then you will need a nylon ferule to secure the tube valve stem that is common on 205x16 tube . If you have the rim with bigger diameter valve then these are usually rivetted construction , they can leak , but some never do, and the bigger stem will enable you to run tubeless. HTSH

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OK, thanks for all the info. I left the wheels at the garage. I may go and look at them again on Tuesday and measure the hole for the valve.

The wheels previoulsy ran with inner tubes and I thre them away. Doh! I can see me buying another 5 inner tubes if I cant get the wheels/tyres to run tubeless!

This is all exciting stuff!

Do Not run tublless tyres on tube rims. yours are almost certainly tubed rims, tubless rims have an extra ridge to stop tyres coming off on corners.