Betcha can’t guess where the trailer tire was leaking.
Yeah, of course you can. Same thing: The valve stem is rotten.
Who mounts a tire, replacing an obviously years-in-the-sun bald tire, and doesn’t at least check the valve stem?
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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If you have a tire iron and a fine thread bolt same thread and size as the stem cap (the new stem from McParts store), you can deflate the tire, pry down the bead right next to rotted stem (might have to stand on it), cut off old one and pry out the inner bit with a needle nose, then insert the new one from the inside (still pressing way down on the bead on that side, push it through, place nut on stem thread, wet it a bit then pull with some hefty pliers or using a box wrench that is smaller than the nut but larger than the stem diameter, use as lever to stretch it outward into place. Re inflate tire with handy dandy foot pump (you do have one, don’t you?)..
Mid desert repairs are survival skillz. Easy – not! But necessity is the mother of desperation (or some such). Been there and done that.
Or take the easy way out and haul it back to the tire shop and see if you can embarrass the grease monkey enough to put a new one in for free ;=)
Answer to your question: your local tire guy.
And, here I thought crap like this only happened in the small town I’m close too. Initiative, what a concept… Argggg…
They knew Joel was not Jeff Bezos or Schwartz György, and they were trying to save him the cost of a new valve stem. Don’t y’all be so hateful now!
My favorite (in addition to the flat tire stories over the years) is a set of new tires put on my vehicle one afternoon and all 4 were totally flat the next morning, sitting on the rims. Good help is hard to find, often even impossible to keep straight and sober.
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