Axle Alignment
Both tires on the door side of my trailer are showing are showing quite a bit of wear on the outside two inches. The tires on the other side are wearing perfectly. I have one small slide on the door ...
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rtate wrote:
I just edited my op. I had left off part of a sentence. Maybe it makes more sense now.Most of the weight of the slides is on the port side, or off door side. My tires are wearing on the starboard or door side which is the lighter side of the trailer. My thought was that if both sides of the axle had equal amounts of camber unloaded then loaded the two sides would wear differently. Therefore the port side is wearing perfectly but the starboard is wearing the outside edges of the tire. The camber should have been different on each side of trailer but that is apparently not how it was set up.
On my RV I noticed the wear on outside of the tires and I increased the air pressure and it slowed down quite a bit. The other side was wearing also, but it was much slower. When I got to the end of the tires life I could definitely see the condition. I haven’t found a way to measure the individual axle weights yet. The pads that the race teams use are too low of capacity to use on RV’s The takeaway for me will be "rotate the tires yearly"
I did the frame alignment check from Lippert and everything lined up. The check was easy with two people. Take your measurements, then have your helper switch ends and compare the data.
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