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Thank you for this video. It helped me out. I do not have grinder wheel but I did use an orbit sander with medium grit paper, and it did the trick. Spent about 10 min on each of them. Thanks! ✌🏼
This just happened to me. Stupid NJ. Driving on the beach doesn't help They were only on for 5 months.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Ah loom in num… not ah loo minium 😖
I used a hacksaw blade to cut the valve stem cap lengthwise. When I saw that the blade was just starting to go all the way through I stopped and used a scredriver to pry the cap open and then unscrew it from the stem.
Dealer installed them for me, because they have misplaced mine. Now I have to use your tip and try to remove them. Thank you.
Thanks for being a life saver on this. 👍. Cut off wheel does the trick.
Tried the pliers, tried the lighter, tried the grinder. All good. Thx 🙂
Great tip. I used a file instead and it worked same way. Just be careful to occasionally check how deep you’ve gone. I went a bit too far and caught threads on stem.
Oh okay, so grab a tool that nobody has, fuckin moron
You just saved my day.
Worked like a charm!
Magic, thanks for this!
APPRECIATE YOU FOR THIS INFO 🤘🏽 IT WORKED ON MY RAM 🐏 TY MY FRIEND
Worked like a charm on my Camaro. Even got a refund on the Dremel I used. Dealership was going to charge $150.
oh that helps ! have 4 of those stuck! thanks !
Just rescued my wifes car with this problem using this method – thanks a lot! Appreciated.
Thanks uncle
Shit if i saw this .. It would help save 100.00. I freaking broke the damn stem auugugggh
the valve's been stuck corroded by the money
Thanks for making and posting this. 100% accurate, heat and leverage as recommended by others do NOT work. Grinding away the side of the cap works really quickly and well as demonstrated. Also excellent tip cleaning up the threads after. Great stuff. Unlike the aluminium caps which are an abomination!
You’re pronouncing aluminum incorrectly lol not hating though
THANK YOU!!!! Worked brilliantly!!!
What is the name of that air compressor tool you are using? I'm knew to the compressor world.
nice
Hell yeah!!!! Worked great for me. Thank you!!!
Borrowed a Dremel and in 10 minutes problem solved on all 4 tyres…saved me ££ here in the UK. Thank you.
Still will never understand blingy dust caps beyond kids with their bikes. cheap black plastic ones anyway, $0.10 a cap, don't corrode, don't add weight to your wheel, better for sealing out water and dirt, no one wants to steal them and most importantly don't get stuck to your valve, imagine getting a flat, going for a quick plug repair to carry on your journey and then not being able to remove the cap to blow up the tyre.
Great tip! I had to grind both sides of the valve and cut a slot in the top, pried with flat screwdriver – cap broke in pieces – no thread damage.
Took 4 years but they finally got me
Had exactly the same thing. Stuck solid on two of four. Twisted one with pliers, valve stem snapped off, instant flat tyre.
PB BLASTER PENETRANT – The best product to use to loosen stubborn, seize bolts and fitting !!! Spray, let it soak for 3-5 minutes and then use 2 pliers, 1 to hold the stem and another to twist off the cap.
Thank you. I have been trying for days to get the aluminum caps off with no luck. I should have known better. They locked in place two years ago and I got lucky and got them off. I sprayed them with liquid wrench and put them back on and the would check them every few months. That worked fine until just now when I found two of them a locked on. I used the grinder and got them off. I’m using plain plastic ones from now on.
Thanks u
Great tip!!! I used this method and it worked like a gem. I will never buy aluminum valve stem caps again.
Exactly what I was thinking, to Dremel it off. This was my verification so thank you.
Discount Tire would not replace the stem because the tire was like a month over the “needs to be 10 years or newer” policy. Even after purchasing a tire.
Thank you! This was super helpful taking out rusty after market vavle stem caps on my 18 wrx.
The way you speak is fun.. like Ga-van-ized, Allumninnyum and some others..lol
Already a subscriber, Googled this issue (Ford + Alum caps) and got this video. That's just how great you are 😉
I'm in Utica and did this >.< if you were closer, I would have taken my car over to you!
Your valve stem tool looks an awful lot like the one I bought 50 years ago.
Oh, you'll get the cap off… but you'll take part of the valve stem with it… Did it tonight 🙁
if you ever move your shop to Charlotte, North Carolina you would have SO much more free shop time! Almost no problems with rust and corrosion down here compared to THE RUST BELT. You could spend your considerable mechanical skills on many more rewarding and technically challenging problems.
I literally just put mine on two months ago and can't get them off ,, hand tight!!
AL-U-MINI-UM
I got mine off by pouring a kettle full of boiling water on to them on a cold day, towel round base of rubber to protect rims and tightened mole grips as tight as possible on the hex end. Took a bit of convincing but got the feckers off. Learned a lesson that plastic wins sometimes!
Did mine today using; matches, pliers, a tiny flat -edged screwdriver, a
small, quality serrated steak knife and some cloth tape. Protected the
area of the wheel around the valve with the tape. Heated up the valve
cap….still wouldn't budge using pliers . Prized part of cap away with
the screwdriver… but still mainly stuck fast! Heated again with match
flame, got the pliers grabbing the valve and started sawing across the cap
with the steak knife. Came apart in one minute! 15 min trial and error
in total but job done, only light thread damage but a load of money
saved. WD40 the rest of the caps and had a plastic spare! Cheer$ : )
You absolutely gorgeous man! I finally managed to get the little b**tards off! 👍
Well there's my excuse to finally buy a dremel.
How bout a very little bit of never seize… bingo no corrosion ?
Never knew that tool has a thread chaser on it.