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Have you ever been on the trail and your tire valve goes bad. No way to break down the wheel and replace it. A lot of you probably know about this already i had heard of it but never used one. Just punch out the old one insert and tighten down the nut

 

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So far it has worked very well.

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There was another kit to do this that uses conventional valve stems, it comes with a tube a rod that you screw the valve stem into and a hook to extract the valve stem so its not rolling around in your tire. 

 

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Use the hook to extract the old valve stem, line up the tube with the hole, screw valve stem to the rod and push it through the tube, when it goes in the hole pull back until it pops in place. 

I havent used this one sounded like a lot of messing around, but may work fine and would be more economical if you had very many to do.

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What is the name of those tire valve replacements? I'd like to search on them to see if there is  a source of them here.. I'm  not really impressed with those Frozwees from the looks of them  but  they  would likel work  ok  after a lot of fussing around.

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GW #3

I can't see how you're going to get the big bulge on the valve, the inside bit, to come out of the tyre, or, how you can ever get a new valve stem bulge back through the hole. Valve stems are tight to pull into place from the inside in the normal fitting process, when you are only pulling the long taper through.. You can't pull the fat bulge out even with a valve tool screwed into it and pliers levering on the tool and rim.

I must be overlooking something here, but that looks impossible to me.. not using standard valve stems.

The extra short ones look like the go..

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I  was wondered the same thing, i think the  theary behind it is you put enough lubrication and force it will go in, and looking at the rubber on the valve stems provided it does look a little different than a conventional valve stem maybe softer rubber and smaller so it will go in easier. I have never used one so im just speculating.

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