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Pressure Pro Info?

Today I sent a question to the PP folks, asking if they can provide the "fix" O Ring for the sensors or do we have to send them back for the retrofit.

Think I should be taking bets as to weather they answer with a fix procedure or if they continue to tell me I am too dumb to install such a simple item.

Since Foretravel was able to get their attention, PP solved the leaking issue with what is described as a O ring looking addition to the sensor.  I am guessing PP did not get away with the "your too dumb" with Foretravel since they did fix the problem.  Now if they would help us dummys.

Any bets?

Re: Pressure Pro Info?

Reply #1 –
I got a bunch of new style seals for my sensors from a PressurePro rep at a rally last year.  The new ones are black.  The old ones are red.  You need to install them with an empty valve stem (no Dill valve) which you can get from an auto parts store.  The new ones fixed a leak I had and they have a longer center bump to do a better job of depressing the Dill valve when screwed in.
Dave and Nancy
1999/2013 U270 36' Xtreme
Motorcade # 16774
2013 Subaru Outback
KD0NIM

Re: Pressure Pro Info?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Dave Katsuki –
You need to install them with an empty valve stem (no Dill valve) which you can get from an auto parts store.  The new ones fixed a leak I had and they have a longer center bump to do a better job of depressing the Dill valve when screwed in.

Dave,

I am not clear what you mean by this.  Can you provide more information?  Thank you.
George Stoltz.  Retired from full-time living in a great Foretravel and now are back to living in a traditional sticks and bricks in Florida.

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Reply #3 –
To add to Dave & Nancy, the new black PP seats are not reversible. The red seats are reversible as they have a center bump on both sides.

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Reply #4 –
Dave, you really threw me too about the empty valve system. How do you get the air into the tire with the sensor installed or how do you keep the air in while putting the pressure sensor on.
The selected media item is not currently available.Kent Speers
Locust Grove, OK
1993 U300 SSE 40' (Restored at FOT 2009) Build 4323
720 watts Solar
6V92TA DDEC Silver Engine
2014 Subaru Outback

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Reply #5 –
He was talking about the method of inserting and seating the new seal properly, not installing the sensor
The selected media item is not currently available. Dave Head & Megan Westbrook
Titusville, FL - The Great Outdoors
'98 270 buying this month
Toad is a 2018 F150 XLT

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Reply #6 –
OK, that makes more sense. Sometimes I'm a little dense. Otherwise you'd have to be really fast at screwing on the sensor with no shrader valve in the stem.
The selected media item is not currently available.Kent Speers
Locust Grove, OK
1993 U300 SSE 40' (Restored at FOT 2009) Build 4323
720 watts Solar
6V92TA DDEC Silver Engine
2014 Subaru Outback

Re: Pressure Pro Info?

Reply #7 –
Here's a shot of the two seal types (the black one is the new version, together with the "insertion tool" (a car tire valve stem without valve, from any auto supply store)
Dave and Nancy
1999/2013 U270 36' Xtreme
Motorcade # 16774
2013 Subaru Outback
KD0NIM

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Reply #8 –
I have already had a failure with the new seal. I bought four earlier this year with the new black seals one does not work at all and the other leaks on any tire I put it on. I am hoping the ones from Hopkins work better but I think I will find that they are identical to the PP sender.
The selected media item is not currently available.Kent Speers
Locust Grove, OK
1993 U300 SSE 40' (Restored at FOT 2009) Build 4323
720 watts Solar
6V92TA DDEC Silver Engine
2014 Subaru Outback
 

Re: Pressure Pro Info?

Reply #9 –
Pressure Pro wheel sensors rubber (red or black) seal against top of valve stem. The threads are not a seal.

If the top of valve stem is not round and smooth air may leak out. Also wheel sensor must be twisted down tight against the top of the valve stem. It a valve core sticks up/out too far it can prevent the sensor from being turned down enough. And if valve core does not stick up enough, Pressure Pro bump on rubber disc may not be able to press in valve core.

We used a little anti-seize lub on threads only, to prevent aluminum valve stem corrosion when Pressure Pro sensors are used.