YACT: Filling your tires with pure Nitrogen

[sharkeeper]

Nitrogen is used in aerospace applications because it will not support combustion in the event of a wheel well fire.

I'd fill my tires with whatever we got, argon, nitrogen, co2. Helium leaks out of everything but some believe it makes the tires spin faster because it's lighter! RUNLMAO! Monster Air anyone? Oops did I use the M word? Sue me! 😛

I filled tires once with water and it was a pain in the ass. Don't do this even as a hard core prank. Even on the rear wheels it will cause severe vibration at highway speed. The only way to fix this is break the tires off the wheels. Your tire man will be totally 😕 as well.

 

[Buickbeast]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

As posted in replies to that post, ALL gases expand/contract with temperature.

Whether or not a gas is inert has no impact on expansion/contraction.

Viper GTS

Yes, I think we all realize that. But in the pressures' dealing with rubber tires, there is no difference.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Wag
Hydrogen would be much more interesting.

Oh the humanity!

So would acetylene. :evil: