chopped/scallop tire tread

[Curtis_Valk]

............to any moot member that wanted to ride up to my shop in dequeen ar.

Heh, I stopped in DeQueen about 18 years ago and bought some used truck tubes from a shop there.  Me, Len (the one here on the forum) and my kids tubed the Little Missouri from LM Falls to Albert Pike.  Fun times, those years.

Curtis

[L J VFR]

My wife used to work for Jack Tyler engineering and she would sometimes have to go to Ashdown arkansas..  I remember driving thru dequeen..  Pretty country..

[Charles S Otwell]

Marty, I think I might ride up to DeQueen and take you up on that offer, since I now know where your shop is located .. What time do you close on Saturday's?

PS I don't mind paying (you have to make money off your friends cause your enemies won't trade with you)

[dgc67]

AHEM...  IN MY DEFENSE!!
I put air in my wifes tires yesterday and had trouble getting the pressure up to 30.  So after struggling (really small compressor) I got it there in all 4 tires.  I went and drove it and it was not right.  Came back, got a different gauge (then 2), and it was WAY off.  When the first gauge (and the one I did my motorcycle with, which is the point of this ramble) said 10lbs, the other 2 said 25.  I had put almost 60lbs of air in using the first gauge.  So went to the bike and I had 50lbs in the front and 45 in the back.

So, all that said, I guess the chopped tires likely are not linked to low air pressure.  I would say, that if mine were actually low at all, it was only a few pounds worth.

[hootmon]

You didn't mention the most important part in your post...
"I threw away the original pressure gauge"... You did, didn't you??? 

[dgc67]

LOL, well NO.  I can't exactly.  It is built into the air tool to put the air into the tires.  I guess I will have to get a new one.

[hootmon]

LOL, well NO.  I can't exactly.  It is built into the air tool to put the air into the tires.  I guess I will have to get a new one.

How about just using a little velcro and stick a manual gauge to the side of the compressor.. Go a little over and then let out air to the proper level..
OR, you could go buy a new one..

[dgc67]

Mine was my father's, I inherited all his tools when he past last year, so I will continue to use it to put air in I am sure.  I will just have to do as you suggest and have an accurate gauge close by as well.   

I am just SO glad to have found out I was not driving around on low tires.  It really is one of my pet peeves and I tend to notice any vehicle on the road with low tires and point it out to my poor wife.  LOL