Tire Inflation Article. Interesting.

[Brock]

(10-17-2017 )Rawze Wrote:  

(10-17-2017 )Brock Wrote:  I tired out Rawzes 120 psi deal, it did not work for me but that is because I run 50% empty miles I'm sure. I wore out the centre strip in no time flat! If I were running loaded 90% of my miles then I would do it again.

If you wore out the center strip when empty, then that can only mean you were most likely applying too much torque to them when empty?. I have never seen those kinds of problems over here. Then again, we drive the truck like there is a loose watermelon laying in the floor that we don;t want to roll around too.

one example of this we have seen many times. We see trucks pass us going up the mountians all the time, and going up grapevine pass (very rough and bouncy road), as the truck passes us and they are putting the screws to it,.. we have literally seen chunks of tire flying out from the drives as they vibrate and grab the pavement.

The result is always that proverbial unexplained wear pattern where every 3rd or 4th lug is worn down (usually on the passenger front drive axle most of all) more than the rest of the tire, and everyone blaming it on shocks and tire imperfections, but it is the torque load + frame twist doing it most of all. - I am quite good at seeing how someone drives by looking at their tires.



Sorry, but we don;t drive like that.

It's nothing to do with torque, all 4 tires wore perfectly evenly just down the centre strip. You haven't seen that because you don't run 50% empty miles. My truck runs 300 miles empty every single day.

If it were a torque issue, there would be signs of it. Ie. Pitting in the rubber, chunks missing...... none of that, tires wore mint but just dead centre. Not a tire issue because it happened on 2 of my trucks with different tires.