Alternate Gasses for Tire Inflation?
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Alternate Gasses for Tire Inflation?
...seen a couple of places touting inflating your tires with Nitrogen. anyone know the scoop on this...advantages...any disadvantages?
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Winston er Nextel Cup cars do this. Basically Nitrogen is more stable at higher temps. If you fill a tire up with air and get it hot, your pressure will go from say 30 psi to 35. With nitrogen, the pressure will not rise as much (if at all).
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Yep...we fill aircraft tires with nitrogen for that purpose. Tires can go from freezing to +120 in a matter of minutes on an airplane. So the fact that nitrogen has very litle expansion with temp is a major plus.
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jay leno has a monthly article in Popular Mechanics and a couple of months back he was talking about the benifits of using nitrogen, also since it is a bigger molecule it holds it pressure longer that straight air. when you fill a new clean tire with nitrogen you keep moisture out which dosent help tire performance
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Originally posted by TheShow50h
Pure Hydrogen is the only way to go.
Pure Hydrogen is the only way to go.
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thanx for the feedback folks....I liked the hydrogen theory... but they said they would only use that to inflate Hindenburg XLT's ...which were NOT available in 205/40/17......so instead today I got a set of BF Goodrich g-Force TA KDW's on the Si....tanked up w/nitrogen at no extra charge....YIPPEE
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