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Originally Posted by Stuart Fedak

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When I was working in Inuvik, NWT (which is above the arctic circle, just south of the Beaufort Sea), I would loose air pressure in my Jeep Cherokee Laredo tires. I had all the tires switched to steel rims before driving up the Dempster Highway from the Yukon, to Inuvik, NWT. ...

... They then remove the stems, and re-seal the the tires onto the rims. They had some low temperature sealant, as most of the truck work they did was for the trucks on the ice road in the McKenzie River ice road for the oil patch.

... A big problem was the compressed air would cool as it expanded. This would often freeze a stem valve. You could get compressed air in the tire, but the stem would not seal when the pressure was removed, as the ice had frozen the stem valve open.

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Stuart

Jeez Stuart, you know how to make a fellow feel glad for global warming!