It's a nipple clamp attached to a ba11 gag.
What did you do to your NNBS GMT900 Tahoe/Yukon Today?
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Charlie207
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It's a torque angle gauge.
T-minus 48 hours for memorial weekend road trip, ran over a big bolt got it patched and the tire guy found a pregnant valve stem. I guess it's good it happened now and not on the road
That gave me a chance to inspect my brake too
What’s a pregnant valve stem?
C'mon man you supposed to catch that sht
I didn't take a picture but it looked like some 40 year old valve, fat like it was going to blow out and the rubber was all split all over like stretch marks
Something else to watch for, I guess. Never seen anything like that. Glad you caught it.
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Ran a couple of tanks of e85 to clean it out a bit.
only time I've seen that happen is the tire shop billed you for new valve stems and left the old ones in. they should really be replaced every time. they get old and dry rot like everything else, but never in one set of tires.
I actually had a buddy's shop do that to my own mom once years ago. I didn't have access to a tire machine at the time. and my buddy worked as a mechanic at a tuffy. chain down in FL at the time. so I had her stop by there to have tires replaced, called my friend and gave him a heads up. hey my mom is coming your way for some tires. small shop, 2 techs and 1 tire kid. I thought he would do hers for me or make sure it was done right. nope, never even checked the tire kid's work. she made it one stop at a Walgreens afterwards and called saying her new tire was flat.
I had to leave work, give her my car. put the spare on, drive to by buddy's shop and do the work myself. I'm like dude, it's my mom. you can't even check they put new valve stems in that they charged her full price for?
all service writers and techs are scumbags. they are so used to it, they don't even realize it's not normal anymore.
