Wheel valve stem

[Mario Loya B1B]

My truck has BF Goodrich tubless poly bias ply tires. It appears that one of tires has a slow leak in it. Actually the leak is coming from the valve stem where the stem seats on the valve hole in the wheel rim. I tried adjusting it by pulling, pushing, twisting in either direction to stop the air flow, but only succeeded in slowing it down. Within a week the tire will be back down to an unsafe level. I took the truck to Goodyear to replace the stem, but they were reluctant to do it because the stems they had where not as wide as the one's on my truck. The service guy was concerned that his stems would not properly fill the hole. Do these tires require "special" or "out of the ordinary" tire stems? or was this guy looking to get out of work early on a Saturday afternoon? I plan on trying another tire place this weekend. I will be wintering the truck soon and I don't think it would be good for the weight of the truck to sit all winter on a flat tire.

[Young Ed]

Mario Get a truck type stem thats metal and bolts through the hole. Some of the mopar wheels have an oval hole which makes this necessary.

[Mario Loya B1B]

That's interesting. My two rear wheels have the "bolted" type and the front don't. Where would you suggest I get these type of valve stems? Would it be unreasonable to think a tire garage (like Goodyear) would have what I need.

[Mario Loya B1B]

This looks like what is in the tire now.

I assume I should get something like this.

[Young Ed]

Mario the second type is what you want. My tires came from fleet farm and they had them instock to put in. They were like an extra dollar or 2 compared to the rubber pop in ones. I would think a good tire shop would have them available.