I got some new Goodrich original bias plys for my 1965 C10 and they were mounted tubeless. Well 2 of them are holding up fine, but two of them won't stay inflated. The guy at the tire store said that the problem is that the valve stem holes in the wheels are wallowed out too large from rust or whatever. He is going to put some tubes in them to fix the problem but he said they would not be good for high speed or "interstate driving."
Drill the valve stem holes out and use the larger diameter tubeless stems designed for Ford wheels. There's also a bolt-in stem that can be tightened up to prevent stem leaks. It sounds like you need to find a better tire man.
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What Jerry said. I used to run bias plies in my Cadillac with no tubes. 80mph driving was no problem.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
Kevin, please let me add something. For what it is worth I would not use tubes today in anything other than farm equipment. A friend who operated a tire store here told me a couple of years before he retired he had stopped using tubes completely because he couldn't guarantee them and they worried him too much. I asked him because of failures? He answered well, yeah...but it is more than that. Failures and the loss of control & wrecks that followed plus people today have the incorrect idea they can make a tire or a rim that has problems work okay if they just put a tube in it. Which according to him once upon a time was okay but today was very dangerous. He said tubes are not made as well as they used to be, it doesn't take much to make them fail and his experience was often they fail at highway speeds. He said on the highway when the tire, wheel, tube gets hotter, the stress on all those parts could put you on borrowed time because the tube is the weakest link. Hope it helps.
~ Jon 1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end
I agree with using the brass threaded stems, rubber seal on both side of the hole will squeeze and conform to the odd shape of the opening. I have 22.5 tubeless on my '57 original wheels, brass stems, no leaks.
1957 Chevrolet 5700 LCF 283 SM420 2 speed rear, 1955 IH 300U T/A, 1978 Corvette 350 auto, 1978 Yamaha DT175, 1999 Harley Davidson Softail Fat Boy
You might also want to paint the insides of your rims, if they're riveted together, with Flex Seal. It works and keeps old rims that might seep air sealed up.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
