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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on August 8, 2009 at 2:30pm

You can quickly remove the valve stem from inside inflating component of the tyre, if that's what you're talking about?

It takes about 10 seconds.

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Permalink Reply by Martijn Boeijink on August 8, 2009 at 2:42pm

Hello Lutan1,

no it isn`t, we have this tool already. the tool I have seen was on fireEngineering .com in an trainingvideo about vehicle extraction. is is an little pin you cab set up and don`t have too remove the valve stem.

But anyway thank you for your message.
otherwise I would write the name of it, but my technisch english isn`t that well, sorry.

With Kind Regards,

Martijn

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Permalink Reply by mean15 on August 8, 2009 at 7:11pm

The ones I use screw onto the stem, and the air comes out, settling the car gently onto your stepchocks. Got them out of a 4-wheel-drive magazine. 4WD owners use them for airing down their tires for traction.

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Permalink Reply by James Hook on November 10, 2009 at 6:44am

Smittybilt 2723 Tire Deflator Universal Price: $39.99 @ Amazon.com

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Permalink Reply by Dan on August 8, 2009 at 8:25pm

I've seen the video that your talking about and it looks like they are using tire air chuck with a male air hose end on the chuck that you can buy at any hardware store. The best and fastest way to flaten a tire is to take out the valve stem or to just take a pair of pliers to pull the hole stem out of the wheel.

After seeing the video I might make a set of my own to use looks like a great way to do things.

Hope this was of some help to you

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on August 11, 2009 at 9:53pm

It's easy to make your own valve stem tool, and it's nearly free.
Joe Woodman invented this tool over 10 years ago.
It's a piece of 3/8-inch diameter electric conduit made from light-guage steel.
The section is about 8 or 9 inches long.

Simple smash one end flat in a vise.

The open end slides over the valve stem, and the tool is long enough to give you the leverage to simply pop the valve stem out. The flat end is a prying tool to remove hubcaps if they're in the way.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Van Vlack on August 12, 2009 at 9:03am

I usually just yank the whole stem with my channel-lock 88 rescue tool. You wont make any friends with the towing company, but it is by fat the fastest way to flatten a tire and settle a car onto your step chalks.

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Permalink Reply by Martijn Boeijink on August 12, 2009 at 4:52pm

ha haha,

yep we did the same thing, but the in the neherlands the same thing: on their faces yoou can see that they don`t like it.

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Permalink Reply by Asst Chief Tim Cook on September 19, 2009 at 7:15pm

You rip 'em out of a TT unit, you expose yourself to injury PLUS you make the vehicle impossible(in many cases)to TOW afterwards,Be smart,take out the valve inserts. Doesn't take any longer than pulling the stem(or at least not much)and makes road clearance MUCH faster which keeps LE happy

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Permalink Reply by Randy Schmitz on August 14, 2009 at 12:05am

Try ripping the stem out when the vehicle has a tire pressure monitoring system....

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