Changing Tires
Has anybody ever used a tire changing block that they sell that you drive one wheel up on it to lift the other tandem wheel to be able to change it
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Arcamper wrote:Tin Pusher wrote:
Arcamper, question for you: After you have blown a tire on one of your two axles, how much weight is on the remaning tire?
If your equalizer works right and there is enough suspension travel the same amount there was to start with. If the tire that blows goes flat and the suspension will not let that tire drop then the full weight of that side of the trailer shifts to the good tire.
Good point.
I've ruined several wheels when I was on the road pulling full time especially at nite when I couldn't see back there. At nite its a spark show that will get your attention as the flat tire is shredded away leaving the rim to dig into the pavement wearing the wheels flange away as its rolling along.
The biggest issue I've found slinging steel belts from the flat tires tread cutting the good tire next to it.
Now on trailers with no equalizer bar then the good tire next to the flat tire takes the weight on a tandem axle trailer. Tri axles not so much.
