Well, I just ran into my first pressure sensor issue. I was doing maintenance on the trailer axles, (grease, check/adjust brakes, etc) and decided I'd pull the sensors and bring all the tires up to the exact pressure. I'd had the sensors on since spring 2013 and had not had to remove any to air up tires, some were down a bit on the sensors, but not enough to worry about. Anyway, the bad news is all of them are frozen to the valve stems. Tried as hard as I could with their supplied tool, nothing would budge. I guess the dissimilar materials of aluminum sensor and steel valve stems bit me. I soaked the threads in wd40 and will give it another try tomorrow, crossing fingers. So I guess the moral of the story is take the sensors off once in a while to clean the threads. Any ideas on a non-destructive way to persuade those things off?
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