Hi loss of tire pressure
#13
11-02-2011, 11:53 AM
Ultimate HDF Member
On my FXDSE the front tire would lose enough air to notice after a couple of days, keep in mind that this was a MH90 21" and with a tire that small any loss is huge, but I found that the tire would not seat correctly to the rim due to the chrome, took some still wool and scratched the inner bead of the rim and no more problem.
#16
11-02-2011, 09:36 PM
i thought loosing 4lbs in a month was bad, i have wire wheels obviously with tubes they are known to loose alittle but that kind of air leak is crazy, it could be valve stem, i woulden`t ride it that way it could be dangerous
#18
11-02-2011, 10:13 PM
Big Kahuna HDF Member
I guess you need to tell your dealer that you took a poll and thousands of harley riders from all 50 states and all of the Canadian Provinces think that he is incompetent(bat **** crazy). Mine was a leaking stem.
#20
11-03-2011, 07:10 AM
My son recently bought a new wheel and tire from the local H-D dealer here in San Diego. He usually keeps his filled to the max tire pressure of 41 PSI. His old front tire was a spoke tire just like mine is, but his new one is a tubeless aluminum wheel. After less than two weeks he looses so much pressure that you can push the tire down to the rim with your thumb (less than 10 PSI in the tire). Last week we took it back to H-D and although the dealer says they will check it out, the service writer at the service counter says that it is typical for front tires to loose that much air in that amount of time. I told him I thought he was sadly mistaken and that I nor my son before the new wheel and tire, ever lost that much air or any where near it. And that I have not heard of any of our other friends having that problem, nor have I heard of that being typical on the forums. He said that it would be rare if anyone was not loosing that much air and insisted that it was typical to loose that much air.
I call bull $hit on him but just to make sure, Let me here if anyone out there thinks that this much air loss is typical. Is it possible that I, my sons old tire and all our friends are just the lucky ones out there and we have all beaten the odds astronomically?
Buy the way they have had the bike now for a week and still have not called us back to let us know if they had found anything out.
I call bull $hit on him but just to make sure, Let me here if anyone out there thinks that this much air loss is typical. Is it possible that I, my sons old tire and all our friends are just the lucky ones out there and we have all beaten the odds astronomically?
Buy the way they have had the bike now for a week and still have not called us back to let us know if they had found anything out.