The system is also great for letting one know when a slow leak has brought a tire down to a level where tread life is being jeopardized. Installation is easy and can be done with new or old tires. It took Chris Leggett about an hour to install the sensors on the new American Racing Nitro wheels with the equally newly designed Toyo Transpath SUV tires. An over-sized hose clamp holds the sensor and its offsetting weight to the rim. Torqueing the band adjuster to 30 inch-pounds is recommended.
Any excess band needs to be clipped off with sidecutters.
An oversized hose clamp holds each color-coded and numbered transmitter to the rim with a special counterweight on the opposite side beneath the valve stem hole. The tire is then mounted, inflated, and balanced just like any other tire. It's a completely wireless monitoring system. 1 psi, has an internal switch that is activated by tire rotation and begins transmitting at 10mph at a rate of one reading every 30 seconds for tire pressure and once a minute for tire temperature. It's important to mount the sensor exactly opposite the valve stem with the factory supplied counterweight centered under the valve stem.