tire gauge
 

Ok, I bought a new tire gauge today and cant figure out how to read it.....Yes , thats right....can`t read it. [verymad]
Tha markings on it are
IKG ,With the numbers under it, and
OLB, with the numbers under it.

Any help is appreciated.

Also, while I have you here.
I running 235-80R17 tires on my truck...What is the height??? ...what is the width???

I want to go one size wider and taller.
Thanks for the help...and please don`t laugh [laugh]
Hans

Like a tire pressure guage? Nowhere does it say PSI?
Maybe the "IKG" is Inches per Kilogram? or something metric like that?
(although, why use inches and kilo's?)

As to the tire height, I use this online calculator.
Yes, it's a Miata site and they'd never have tires this big (well, I guess they could if they really wanted).
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

You plug in your current and it tells you the dimension in inches,
then plug in other sizes and it tells you the difference between the two.


phox

Hello there....Nowhere does it say PSI...Thats what has me stumped. It was made in China if that helps..[laugh] Thanks for the link. I`ll be sure to check it out.

What brand and model is it?

On the box it reads,
OEM
tools for the perfessionals...Daul foot inflator and gauge.

Can't find anything related to tire pressure with those abbreviations. Don't give up, someone on here will know.

Never Give Up!!! Never Surrender!![deadhors]
What I did was test the air in my wifes truck (05 Hemi) and my trailer and I think I have it figured out. Its the IKG, I think.

Dont know if this will help but its a conversion site.
http://www.onlineconversion.com

Sounds just like the one my Mom bought for my Dad after he left his good old one in the drive way and she ran over it. They are both 79 years old and my Dad finally said she bought it to drive him crazy. They are so cheap they refused to give up on it and had made marks on it with magic marker where they thought the right pressures were. While visiting, I pitched it and bought them two good ones.

WOW...Great sight, I appreciate it. Tons of stuff to look over...Thanks [guitar]

Thats funny as hell!!! I just about through it down the street. It is a cheap one . Only paid $20.00 for it. [duhhh]

Sounds a lot like the one I have, except mine is triangular with three scales, two of which are frippin metric, not only that but they are the same useless frippin metric scale, kilograms per square centimeter. [verymad][verymad][verymad]

The markings you are seeing are the readings per major division on the scales. 1KG is one kilogram per square centimeter. The other one should read 10PSI for ten pounds per square inch, which is how my gauge is marked.

Metric tire pressures are usually given in atmospheres (ATM), bar, or kilopascals (kpa). I have never run into a tire pressure gauge calibrated in kilograms per square centimer (kg/cm2) before.

Ya...Sound like the one I have...Nowere on there does it say 10PSI though.. Thats what I was looking for, Thats what I was raised to read. Everything is going meteric...****. [rant]
Thanks for the post