Diy'er ideas for installing a new tire valve on a rim?

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Have you ever needed to invent a way to pull a replacement tire valve through the hole b/c you didn’t have the special tool?

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Take a crowbar and pry your wallet open and buy the tool.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=8337e99f4c135596&q=tire+valve+stem+tool&tbm=shop&source=lnms&prmd=sivnmbtz&ved=1t:200715&ictx=111&biw=1366&bih=579&dpr=1#spd=14628890055192474734

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Of the commercial versions, this is the one I like the best. Instead of pulling, you push it through the hole. A new valve stem installed with the tire still on the rim. Clever design.

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I have used my Snap on Dykes (side cutters) pliers so many times over the years to pull a rubber valve stem on a automotive wheel, and YES I have the proper tool(s) in my tool box(s)… lol

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https://www.amazon.com/Dykes-Cutter-Diagonal-Cutting-Pliers/dp/B0733NRF2C?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A3EMJ66C3UNOUP&th=1

As far as that video goes, I see a lot of wheels getting scratched when the tool slips…
And most tire guys can break the bead on one side and pop a valve in the wheel about as fast as he did in the video, or faster…

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Putting a nut on the valve and prying it up with long needle nose pliers with a piece of wood as a fulcrum should work.

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