My front wheel is leaking from the valve hole. Any tips?
I spent a couple of hours over the weekend fitting Hutchinson Fusion 3s to DT Swiss R23 Spline wheels. These wheels came with my bike and are "tubeless ready". They already had the rim tape installed. I bought two DT Swiss tubeless valves, two Fusion 3 tyres and a pint of Stan's sealant.
Fitting the tyres was quite easy. I didn't have to use a tool, just my hands and a cloth over the tyre and rim to protect my fingers. I installed the valve stem with the o-ring on the outside of the rim.
I used washing up liquid and water in a 1:1 ratio to lube the beads. Inflating with a track pump was easy and happened first time on both the front and rear wheel.
I then deflated the tyre, removed the valve cores and used a syringe to inject 30ml of fluid into each tyre. Spun the tyre a few times to distribute the fluid. Replaced the valve cores and pumped the tyres up. All was fine with the rear tyre, and that is holding air well (at ~100PSI at the moment).
For the front tyre I get bubbling (of washing up liquid) through some of the spoke holes and around the valve. The tyre deflated from 100PSI to 30PSI overnight. Quite a slow puncture, but still not good.
So, any tips? The wheels were new in February and have covered about 1200km with a tube in the tyre, before attempting the tubeless conversion. Things I can think of doing are: I could add some more tape (I have some yellow TESA tape), replace the valve (although it is new) or add more sealant.