Eric,
When I was in the tire busting business, metal stems were the way to go.
They last longer, are not affected by age and take more abuse. This
especailly true if your are mounting/dismounting your tires alot. Or you
have a set of "rain tires" that you don't use much. I never saw the kind
of stems you are describing loosen up but they were in the way on some
wheels. I like the kind that tighten from the outside the best because they
are less intrusive on the inside and you can tighten when the tire is
mounted. Unfortunately, these stems wouldn't work on some wheels.
Our rule at KC Raceware was to use a metal stem anytime we could.
Scott Peterson
CP 117
-----Original Message-----
From: Linnhoff, Eric <elinnhoff@smmc.saint-lukes.org>
To: 'autox' <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: Kosei question
>To all owners of Kosei wheels; When you bought your Kosei wheels (you did
>buy them from the Tirerack, right?) did you receive some neat little
>machined aluminum screw-in style valve stems?
>
>Well I did and I'm kinda confused. What's the advantage to running these
>neat looking, blue anodized valve stems over the common black rubber type
>that you pull through from the inside of the wheel? They look to me to be
>just another opportunity for a leak. They sure aren't any lighter than the
>rubber valve stems and to me it looks like an opportunity for the neato
>machined aluminum nuts to fly around inside of the tire when they loosen
>themselves. And yes, I have heard of Loc-Tite but.......
>
>What sayest the audience?
>
>Eric Linnhoff in KC
>1998 Dodge Neon R/T (see-dan)
>STS #69 TLS #13
>knuckledragger@kcweb.net
>http://www.geocities.com/eric10mm/index.html
>
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