Check your Tire Valves.....!!!

[Mexicano]

Check your valves before you experience an accident...today I discovered this with mine:

I will get a pair of aluminium or stainless steel motorcycle or car valves and change them.

 

[MHRntt]

They are to big, you should get shorter and straight ones.

 

[melf #50]

normaly this does not happen , the "valves" in scooters are the same as in motorcycles and cars...

only when very old or not properly installed they get this way..

 

[Mexicano]

melf #50: My valves are 18 months old, 2,500 Kms. on the clock and they were installed in factory..maybe a piece of shit valves.....

 

[Mexicano]

I found these nice stainless steel valves this afternoon:

 

[Swobber]

Normally the valves will start to grow hard and then leak air, when they are exposed to the clima in ex. Scandinavia where we use A LOT of salt on the road.
It simply just kills the rubber.

Last week, when I was working on a Mercedes Sprinter 312 I found a tire where a 30x10cm piece of outer rubber was missing on the inside of the tire - It was close to an eksplosion.
Check your valves and tires often, as soon as the first crack apears - Change it!
I change my valves everytime I change tires - Wich will be around 12 months on a tire and a valve (Everyday slave-scooter!).

/Swobber says: Rubber will start to harden and then crack.

 

[Folkert@MinaRally]

If like Swobber, conditions are like that, just grease them every now and then, to prevent them from drying out and get hard and crack.