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How do you install a metal valve stem?
How do you install a metal valve stem?
https://www.brattons.com/30-31-metal-stem-only.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Last edited by shew01; 06-18-2020 at 08:51 PM. |
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06-18-2020, 08:51 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
I had mine installed when I purchased the tubes from Coker. They charged only for the stem, no labor !
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06-18-2020, 08:52 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
I found the description on the web site, but installation still doesn’t make sense to me. You actually cut out a good rubber stem to use these?
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06-18-2020, 08:53 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
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The previous owner had them installed before I bought the car. They look nice, but are they any better than rubber stems? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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06-18-2020, 08:58 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
[QUOTE=shew01;1900514]I found the description on the web site, but installation still doesn’t make sense to me. You actually cut out a good rubber stem to use these?
Yes, that is how it is done or buy tubes with them installed. You will still need the bridge washer etc to install.
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06-18-2020, 09:06 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
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06-18-2020, 09:28 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
The nicd thing about the metal stems on our cars is that they don't dry rot and become torn after some years of driving. Much harder to get a leak on a metal one than rubber.
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06-18-2020, 09:31 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
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Thanks for the link. That is NOT how I envisioned the process at all. Lol I understand more clearly now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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06-18-2020, 11:55 PM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
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I have done it slightly different but still get the same end. Six of one...half a dozen of the other ways. Pluck |
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06-19-2020, 04:32 AM
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How do you install a metal valve stem?
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Based on what I read and the size of the base of the metal stem, I envisioned cutting the entire old stem, including its base, out of the tube. That would have been an expensive mistake because that would have been much too big of a hole in the tube. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Last edited by shew01; 06-19-2020 at 05:08 AM. |
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06-19-2020, 07:01 AM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
I remember a couple of years ago either here or in MAFCA's magazine detailed instructions w/pictures.
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06-19-2020, 08:23 AM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
MAFCA Magazine (as Bob and Steve pointed out)
Written by the late Al Lepore Last edited by Joop; 06-19-2020 at 10:29 AM. |
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06-19-2020, 08:48 AM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
Al Lapore's article is the best way to modify tubes for metal valve stems. His method doesn't leak!
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06-19-2020, 09:27 AM
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Re: How do you install a metal valve stem?
Not sure if this is it but it came out in The Restorer MAFCA:
“The Installation and Care of Valve Stem Hardware”: TR/35/1/6-7 (1990)*6 “Replacing Rubber Valves Stems with Metal Valve Stems without Damaging the Paint On Your Wheels”: TR/35/1/8-9 (1990)*6 Vol. 35 #1 and Vol 6 of How to Restore your Model A Ford |
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