$2 Tyre Deflators

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$2 Tyre Deflators

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Found this on a LR site :oops: Looks like a great idea, Question is can you buy them like that or would you have to make them?

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Airing down is part of 4-wheeling. At the start of the day, everyone sits beside each wheel, patiently letting the air out of the tyres until they are soft enough to increase the amount of surface area on the ground (and therefore increase traction)

To make life easier, Neville came up with these nifty tyre deflators - hose clamps that you just clip on, letting the air out without having to hold something against the valve. They even have an end the same size as a valve so that you can check pressure easily by holding your pressure gauge againt the end.

More than two of these are impossible to manage, they let the air out too quickly.

Got a set of Staun deflators for Xmas, these are very cool but $2 hose clamps are way more cost effective!


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Tyre deflaters are really painfull and slow, better to spend 2 bucks on a valve removale tool and take the valves out for a quick air down :wink: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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i got one of those do hickies with a air pump if ya want it
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Sadam_Husain wrote:Tyre deflaters are really painfull and slow, better to spend 2 bucks on a valve removale tool and take the valves out for a quick air down :wink: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


Don't worry Sadam, they are landrover owners. They will have heaps of time as no doubt half the people will be doing repairs to their wagons as they broke them on the drive there :roll: :roll: :mrgreen:
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I believe teh answer you are looking for bubba, is.........



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Bubba wrote:Found this on a LR site :oops: Looks like a great idea, Question is can you buy them like that or would you have to make them?

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Airing down is part of 4-wheeling. At the start of the day, everyone sits beside each wheel, patiently letting the air out of the tyres until they are soft enough to increase the amount of surface area on the ground (and therefore increase traction)

To make life easier, Neville came up with these nifty tyre deflators - hose clamps that you just clip on, letting the air out without having to hold something against the valve. They even have an end the same size as a valve so that you can check pressure easily by holding your pressure gauge againt the end.

More than two of these are impossible to manage, they let the air out too quickly.

Got a set of Staun deflators for Xmas, these are very cool but $2 hose clamps are way more cost effective!


Found on: http://home.off-road.com/~landy/index.html

You acn get those at your local air fittings place, the go in the end of the hose, with a hose clamp round them and are used at filling stations on their type pumps.
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wjw wrote:and are used at filling stations on their tyre pumps.



shite, don't tell bubba that

he used to live in Grenada North, the youth would of taught him a thing or two, now all the gas stations around welly are gonna be missing thier tyre inflaters :shock: :shock: :roll: :lol: :lol:
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cheap buggers.. just get some stauns, then they air down to the preset pressure.. :wink:

or these more your styles? REAL quick airin down.. :mrgreen:

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He could always just shove a FREE stick in the valve and save his $2 for something more worthy, you could even buy a small jar of Marmite for that coin .... which you could spread on a FREE bagel from curly (although it would have to be a plain one .... not a fancy gherkin or chocolate one)
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+1 for removal tool, its about 30-60 sec's to let down each tah.
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niblik wrote:cheap buggers.. just get some stauns, then they air down to the preset pressure.. :wink:

or these more your styles? REAL quick airin down.. :mrgreen:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Ki ... 164629.htm


+1 for the stauns....lol
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T-Boon wrote:+1 for removal tool, its about 30-60 sec's to let down each tah.


And + 1 more for this method
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Ohhhhhh now I regonise them!! The removal tool is what I use now but it does require that you can count, I worked out it's about 5-7 psi per full second.

That may require you having to count beyond ten.hense the reason that niblik uses Stauns

WgtnNewbe, I can see why you voted for the Stauns, you are to fckin fat to bend over and reach the tyre for starters, you can't use your fingers or toes to count to 10, you can't use your fingers because they have the permanant job of moving pieces of fried chicken and pies down your conveyor belt of a throat and you haven't seen your toes since 1996.

You have no fckin job, you couldn't afford the free fckin air anyway.

Jerry, I have no freakin idea WTF you are on about! I would suggest to not standing downwind when Cindy is burning off her "green" garden waste, that or invite us all round!
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Bubba wrote:Ohhhhhh now I regonise them!! The removal tool is what I use now but it does require that you can count, I worked out it's about 5-7 psi per full second.



Nah Bubba you dont muck around with a gauge to read the pressure, you just let them down to you've got the right looking bulge in the sidewall to suit the terain then shove the valve back in :wink:
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I can't say you are wrong but it's much harder to judge with 16's.

Last time I did that I checked on the gauge to find i had, well 0 psi, bugger.
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Bubba wrote:Ohhhhhh now I regonise them!! The removal tool is what I use now but it does require that you can count, I worked out it's about 5-7 psi per full second.

That may require you having to count beyond ten.hense the reason that niblik uses Stauns

WgtnNewbe, I can see why you voted for the Stauns, you are to fckin fat to bend over and reach the tyre for starters, you can't use your fingers or toes to count to 10, you can't use your fingers because they have the permanant job of moving pieces of fried chicken and pies down your conveyor belt of a throat and you haven't seen your toes since 1996.

You have no fckin job, you couldn't afford the free fckin air anyway.

Jerry, I have no freakin idea WTF you are on about! I would suggest to not standing downwind when Cindy is burning off her "green" garden waste, that or invite us all round!


fyi i don't burn green garden waste i compost :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Then how do you expalin the green smoke wufting in the air from your back garden from time to time, or is that only Abo visits?

back on topic

Staun----------------- good, flash, expensive, slow
$2 hose valve thing--- Good cheap, slow
Valve removal -------- Cheap, fast, BEST
stick------------------ Free, slow, stupid unless you can't afford $2 and then you shouldn't be 4x4ing anyway

End of subject, move along people, nothing to see here
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+1 Quick dump heavy duty tubes :mrgreen:
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Andrew1706 wrote:+1 Quick dump heavy duty tubes :mrgreen:



Now were talking :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Thats slightly over Bubba's $2 budget......
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