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Now I am in reference to the 16" wheels on my '99. I don't know if some of the newer/bigger trucks have bigger wheels and more room or not.
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I just blew out the outside dual the other day, and given enough time and thought (as I was assuming and started posting aboot the subject from the poor qlty tire view
) I fingered out the issue.
I had my fronts and inside duals swapped around a month or so ago (Hate to pay someone to werk on my truck, but only so many hrs in a day eh?) and the feller that did it mentioned that the inside dual was real low on pressure when he pulled it out. (Like 20# I think.)
Just my bed is heavy, plus the up to 5000# loads we set on top of it at times. So - in dooing some math - it comes up with that tire loaded well beyond the rating all too regularly, so I guess I can't blame the tire.
I have the long "Billy Big Rigger" type guage, but hows a feller to git the his paws down in there to take the cap off to check it? Those wheel openings aint that bloody big!
I run two sets of wheels/tires and generally change my tires every fall/spring, but every cpl yrs last yrs winter tires are this yrs summer tires - and then I git new come fall eh? So normally I would be checking them every 6 months on average and generally don't find much wrong. Maybe the occassional @ 65#, but that would be on the set going back on even at that. (I doubt that I check the tires comming off unless something obviously wrong...)
I bought a set of them thar braided hoses aboot 12-15 yrs ago for another truck and never put them on. They just look to be a big PITA. Maybe they are worth it?
What doo the rest of you doo? (Especially the guys that are actually werking the trucks.)
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