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What can I do to get a straight shot at the Rear Tire valve Stem?
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Snoking1127
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I have one of those, used a lot on the SxS and truck. It worked air down also.
Last time I aired up the Spyder I used this.
Set it for 16.5 for front tires and 18.5 for rear.
UtahPete
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I have two of those Ryobi inflators (not sure why 2), but anyway, as a source of air for inflation, they are great. The question though is how to reach through or past the belt drive sprocket to for the valve stem. I'm not sure how to go about attaching the Ryobi chuck to the 1/4" F-NPT of the extended chuck or JACO inflator / gauge unit I'm leaning towards.
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mecsw500
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When I was younger I went to work for a company developing digital telephone exchanges. Every employee had to do a months training of everything from wire wrapping to working up a phone pole to sling wires no matter your role.How about ducking into the Hardware store for 'a long weight for a plane', or maybe a 1 litre can of Striped Barber Pole Paint?!
Back when I was working in a Hardware store during my school holidays, one of the local painters sent his new apprentice (who was maybe just a year or two older than me) down for one of those 1 litre cans of Striped Barber Pole Paint; so I mixed him up a can of paint, a long shot of Red paint colour in a can of White base paint, stirred it once or twice so that it streaked up nicely, sealed it again and told him to be very careful not to shake it, and sent the poor fella back carrying that can like it was a thermo-nuclear bomb! But the boss painter had a meaner streak than mine, and he sent the new guy straight back with the can to say that it hadn't worked, I must've mixed it incorrectly. So I opened the can, took a quick look inside at the pink results, swore, and told the apprentice to take it back to his boss and tell him it was his fault it hadn't worked, cos he'd put the bleedin' striped paint on upside down!!
The apprentice didn't come back for a while, and the next time I saw the boss painter, he grinned at me, and said "Well played!"
But you'll all hafta excuse me for a moment, I gotta go collect a bag of sparks for my grinder.
Of course it was miserable weather when it was my day to go up the pole. It was raining and a ladder was used to get far enough up the pole to start using the rungs to climb to the top. I’m terrified of heights.
First time up they sent me up with the wrong tool so I had to come all the way back down again. Then when I got top the top again, palms sweating and scared stiff, they took the ladder away and went to lunch, leaving me stuck up the pole for an hour, in the rain.
The only way to stop this kind of mucking about was to laugh about it and admit yes, you got me. If you had no sense of humor you weren’t part of the club and it wouldn’t stop until they broke you. Laugh and it was handshakes all round, a steaming hot mug of tea to warm you up and they bought you lunch the next day. Guys or girls it didn’t matter, it was a right of passage.
Snoking1127
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I was able to route the Ryobi inflation valve between the wheel/tire and sprocket, and lock it on the valve stem, and inflate the rear tire.
UtahPete
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That sure would simplify things. Like Peter A said, I'm probably overthinking this. But then again, I do enjoy the process!
hogmemberisold
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I use a hand pump and it would work great for something like that, got it back in the Harley days, used to adjust the shocks on our Bushtec trailer suspension. It has a check valve at the end of the hose... I'll see if I can grab a pic for ya...
Actually, a screw on air fitting.
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Albec
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I don't know about your Spyder but mine calls for 28psi for the rear tire.
The rear tire I am using carries a load rating of V which is I believe is 200-300 LBS higher than the OEM tire. If I ran it at 28# it would never heat up enough to get peak performance from it. I run mine between 15.5-17 depending on whether 2up or not. Of course I only weigh a buck 40. I don't use the 4 PSI increase, I use the 10% increase to dial it in. Mine now has 32,000 miles and I will be changing it as soon as the weather goes south.
Snoking1127
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That is for OEM Kenda tires. I ran a General Altimax RT45 car tire out back and Vredesteins on the front at 16.
Mine is very much like that, and was given to me by a Harley buddy when he sold his bike. But I find that by the time I've unscrewed the fitting I've lost a good bit of air. The valve is under the seat right at the corner of the battery and there's not much room to get a hand in there.
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ollicat
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That is exactly what I do. I lay two collapsed cardboard boxes on the ground. I gather anything I might possibly need like pliers for the FOBO, an extra battery, and the tire inflator with a gauge. Then lay all the way down and just get to work. I don't get back up until I have the job done to satisfaction.
Snoking1127
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I use a Magic Creeper. Just don't step on it, as you may end up on your butt.
https://magiccreeper.com
UtahPete
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I'm leaning in this direction. I like what I see about the Jaco stuff, particularly the Lightning chuck line with its click-on/click-off feature. I can see how.
@Snoking1127, How do you connect the Ryobi pump to the inlet of the JACO inflator/gauge?
I like this solution a lot, particularly with the Lightning chuck on it. Now, how do you provide compressed air to the JACO unit, short of using a pancake compressor or some such?
UtahPete
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I like this idea.
Ps: I'm attaching photo of valve at 6 o'clock as an experiment to see if I understand Peter A's instructions on how to do that. It's also a pretty good image of what the valve stem looks like straight on, which as plenty of people have noted is easy enough to access with a push-on chuck. I'm not sure why I've been making such a big deal out of it.
So, this is what my rear wheel valve stem looks like at 6 o'clock. Plenty of room to access it, and, with an OEM rubber stem at least, easy enough to bend slightly to clear the sprocket with an extended chuck.
I'll be putting a new T-stem in there on the next tire change and I guess the FOBO will have the straight valve and the angled valve turned in line with the wheel (i.e. to the side) for attaching a chuck, which in that case will need to also be an angled chuck. If there is enough clearance for the FOBO to be on the angled valve side, that would be simpler but I won't know until the new T-stem arrives later this week.
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Snoking1127
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I don't. Two separate airing situations. The Ryobi has a standard little lever you push down/over to lock onto the valve stem. Very easy on the front wheels. On the rear, I use one hand to push it onto the valve stem and the other to operate the lever. The Ryobi pump has it's own pressure gauge and can be set to cut off at a given pressure setting.
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