punxsyjumper

Oh ok, so they are free floating all the time? That is similar to the Centramatics plate.

That will help, thanks. Problem is, we are heading out wed the 13th. First stop will be Twin Lakes RV Service center in La Grange IN. I'm hoping they will be able to square me away if the shop here can't. Calling the manager today of the shop I had the tires put on. This is a real learning curve and I definitely seem to finding all the places NOT to go to.

Yep, definitely. I see on the driver side wheel, the support ring is still there. There is nothing in it though. On the passenger side, it's gone.

Do they do a solid one piece stem for the inners?

Thanks for the link, I will do that.

Yep, that looks good. Looks like what I had till the "expert" decided to take them off. Now I can't even see the stem on the inners. He was on his hands and knees with a flashlight going "There they are". When he tried to put air in it, he couldn't get the hose on so he says "need to find something to bend it down a little". At this point I'm thinking, this isn't good. I told him I was going to put a TPMS on it and he didn't know what that was. After I informed him he said I can get to the stem by reaching in between the tires. Aaagh!!!

Yeh, same here. First I ever heard of it but it makes me say, "huh???". I just checked out Centramatics, very cool. Looks like the way to go.

I gotcha. When you say support, you mean the rubber insert that fits in the wheel where the stem goes through the hole? Not familiar with Centramatics. I'm going to get my extensions back on (with support) and from now on, only go to shops that deal with motorhomes. Thanks

Is there a "break in" period for the beads?? I mean after I left the tire garage, we drove about 5 miles and stopped for supper. Sitting there I was thinking maybe I only drove enough to break the bag and the beads were sitting in the bottom of the tire solidifying. When we left the diner, we drove about 15 miles back to the house and parked it. Never went over 60 the whole time. I seldom go over 70 and never go over 75.

I will do that, thanks

good advice

Good point about the special valves and large beads. I will be calling the manager in the morning so I will find out more. Extensions were on the coach when I bought it and never had a problem after putting 8,000 miles on them. Thanks Bill.

Just had 4 Conti 275/R70/22.5's mounted on the rear of the coach. Said instead of weights, they use some kind of glass beads in a bag? First I ever heard of it. Good or bad? Also, I can't even see my inside tire valve stem. Asked what happened to it and the guy said there were extensions on there but they all leak so he took them off. I'm sure they make a one piece metal valve stem that will reach out to where I can see it.

Thank you Sir and may the good Lord take a like 'n to ya.

Yeh, I need to start looking at the dates. Although, I'm not getting notifications of replies and comments in here so maybe he's not either. I did notify the IT dept and they are working on it. Oh well, we'll see what happens. On the final countdown, winterizing the ol homestead and pulling out next wed morning.

I agree with your signature. GW bridge got me once and never again.

Good to know, thanks Guys.

Who says I'm sane???

Got to go at least once and check it out for ourselves.

Very cool. We were through there last winter but never made it to Quartzsite. We spent a few days in Kingman and spent about a week in Bullhead City. We did go see London Bridge and that was cool. My wife is from London so she walked on the bridge over there and also in LHC. We will be in Pahrump from Dec 1st and then go to the RV show. We'll look for ya. We are going to OOBerfest while we are there too.

Well, Houston is out. From Oklahoma, we will head to Wichita Falls and then off to Lubbock TX. My friend lost his lunch truck, his personal truck and his condo. He has really been hit hard. The whole area is going to need help and will be on the mend so I think unless you really need to be there, we will stay out of the way.

Going to be in NV this winter so we are planning to move around a little bit. It will be our first time going to a big show like this. Just wondering who else will be there.

Already looking at moving around more often. Will be going to the RV show in Quartzsite AZ Jan 17th and then back to Pahrump, NV.

Great idea. We used to have cards back in the CB radio days. They were big cards, like 5x7 and we handed them out at all the coffee breaks. Saves having to find pen and paper when meeting new Folks. This is going on our to do list for sure.

Looks like we will be bypassing Houston