Check your TIRE PRESSURE
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Check your TIRE PRESSURE
Lately, I have been having traction issues in the rear end. Nothing serious, but noticable given that I do have LS on the rear end.
So I checked the tire pressure which is supposed to be 32lbs back there... it was 22.5 in one and 23 in the other... Yeiks. So I check the front and they were each about 8lbs low! I filled them to spec and went on feeling pretty stupid not to have checked them long ago.
Traction issues started again.... checked pressure again... same problem.
I didn't have time to take to dealer, so I stopped at the local tire place and they checked it out.
All 4 valve stems were bad! They replaced them for me and told me no charge.... apparently they are Michelin/BFG authorized as a Ford OEM Warranty center.
Very weird, eh?
So I checked the tire pressure which is supposed to be 32lbs back there... it was 22.5 in one and 23 in the other... Yeiks. So I check the front and they were each about 8lbs low! I filled them to spec and went on feeling pretty stupid not to have checked them long ago.
Traction issues started again.... checked pressure again... same problem.
I didn't have time to take to dealer, so I stopped at the local tire place and they checked it out.
All 4 valve stems were bad! They replaced them for me and told me no charge.... apparently they are Michelin/BFG authorized as a Ford OEM Warranty center.
Very weird, eh?
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Originally posted by 01XLT Sport
I check mine at least once a week or every two weeks. I have one that loses about 2 lbs every two weeks, most likely valve stem.
I check mine at least once a week or every two weeks. I have one that loses about 2 lbs every two weeks, most likely valve stem.
I had the same problem with my 2000 F150 before I got my new truck. Except I was losing about 2 lbs every couple of days. It went flat on me a couple of times. I took it up to a tire place and they put a new valve stem on it and it never had that problem again.
I think the valve stems go bad when we are washing our tires and accidently bending the valve stems too much and causing them to break. Thats why I am very careful on rims, expecially around the valve stem
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I'd keep the spare at a high pressure than the rest of the tires. It'll give it some air to lose as well as let you adjust the pressure down if you every have to use it.
People who store cars for awhile will over inflate the tires to keep them from getting flat spots so I image it wouldn't hurt a spare.
People who store cars for awhile will over inflate the tires to keep them from getting flat spots so I image it wouldn't hurt a spare.
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So, just in case you run across the empty ski-boat filled with bikini clad women, you can drop the spare and use it as an tube to pull behind the boat?
(BTW--- little known fact... women in bikini's on tubes loose their tops easily when being thrown at 30+mph off of the tube... can't say no one told you this tid bit).
RP
(BTW--- little known fact... women in bikini's on tubes loose their tops easily when being thrown at 30+mph off of the tube... can't say no one told you this tid bit).
RP
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