We got a later that desired start due to goodbye's, and a couple of interruptions. We had decided to head north to go south thereby avoiding South Burlington and other cities on our usual route. So off to St Albans to fuel up. Well at about 14 miles out I noticed that I had a low tire pressure, 52#'s. They were fine yesterday when I checked. So we continued to the Jolly truck stop, fueled up and called GoodSam Roadside Assistance. While waiting for them to call back we called TDI Repair Facility and for 105/hr they were willing to help. Turns out GS also called them and took care or half+ of the bill.
I posted on FB that I had a problem and a full-time friend, Paul Surhoff, called and we discussed my problem. Well it seems like he had a similar problem and it was the braided valve stem extenders. As we were talking the service truck arrived.
I discussed Paul's information with the tech and he removed the extension as part removing the tire for inspection. We noted that the 'O' ring where the extension attaches to the valve stem was cracked. Also the tech said the "nut" was not very tight, so something else to check from time to time. The tire visually checked ok and held air, 120#, for quite awhile. Buttoned everything up, had lunch, hit the road. We arrived at Susquehanna Trails, a Passport America park, about 6 PM so all in all not a bad day.
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