Unusual tire wear
The outer treads on my steer tires have apparently worn to enough to expose a different rubber compound. I wondered if anyone else has experienced this. The rest of the tread is excellent. The tire...
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We ahd that happen to our original GC670 Goodyears but not thaat bad.
They said it was because the front endwas too light, they said it was not aligned properly, then the shocks were bad ad so on.
We replaced them with Michelin then new with orange oil in the compound, not sure what good that does but makes me worry about their life.
The tires are steer axle tires with decoupling grooves on both sides of the thread. One wheel and tire took one ounce to balance the other one required no weight atall on road force balancer.
We ahd the front axle straightened in Mo, later trying to cure a wonder problem, and then the factory on chassis alignment or frame fund the right side of rear axle forward about an inch or so from the left side, loosened axle and welded in washers to fix that.
Don't knwo which or in combination was causing the problem,... oh and the rubber bushings in the sway bar were all chewed out.Replaced them with other rubber bushings because they could not locate urethane near the factory. Steers and handles a lot better but I will be putting in new urethane bushings and shocks. 38,000 miles on an 05 Freightliner chassis
They said it was because the front endwas too light, they said it was not aligned properly, then the shocks were bad ad so on.
We replaced them with Michelin then new with orange oil in the compound, not sure what good that does but makes me worry about their life.
The tires are steer axle tires with decoupling grooves on both sides of the thread. One wheel and tire took one ounce to balance the other one required no weight atall on road force balancer.
We ahd the front axle straightened in Mo, later trying to cure a wonder problem, and then the factory on chassis alignment or frame fund the right side of rear axle forward about an inch or so from the left side, loosened axle and welded in washers to fix that.
Don't knwo which or in combination was causing the problem,... oh and the rubber bushings in the sway bar were all chewed out.Replaced them with other rubber bushings because they could not locate urethane near the factory. Steers and handles a lot better but I will be putting in new urethane bushings and shocks. 38,000 miles on an 05 Freightliner chassis
