{"id":935,"date":"2010-08-27T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2010-09-08T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T16:07:37","slug":"always-use-new-valve-stems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/always-use-new-valve-stems\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Use New Valve Stems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always Use New Valve Stems<\/p>\n<p>When I mounted Scott\u2019s tires a few months ago, I did not have any valve stems in stock and I did not want to make the trip into town to get some. The ones in the rims looked fine so I just left them in place.<\/p>\n<p>Then last week, Scott had not one but two valve stems break off due to the rubber cracking. <\/p>\n<p>Last night I swapped in new valve stems for him.  I broke the bead on the front side and used a pair of diagonal cutters to cut out the old valve stems. I pressed new ones in place and aired his tires back up.  <\/p>\n<p>I put them on the balancer for a tune up of the balance while I had them off.<br \/>\n[phpbay]valve stems, 10[\/phpbay]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always Use New Valve Stems When I mounted Scott\u2019s tires a few months ago, I did not have any valve stems in stock and I did not want to make the trip into town to get some. The ones in the rims looked fine so I just left them in place. Then last week, Scott &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/always-use-new-valve-stems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Always Use New Valve Stems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,6,71],"tags":[516,190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}