Are 16" tires still common? South america.. And disk brakes

agesilaus wrote:

LT tires are simply not an option.

Why not? And are those Hercules ST or LT?

And the reason GY lost that suit was because they lied about the Marathons. Which does not make me trust them. Unless you are claiming they had a morality transplant when they came out with their endurance tires.

Aaaand we're off again!!
Maybe we could get a subject matter expert on what LT tires in 14" and 15" size are of equal or greater capacity than those of ST tires...

agesilaus wrote:

LT tires are simply not an option.

Why not? And are those Hercules ST or LT?

And the reason GY lost that suit was because they lied about the Marathons. Which does not make me trust them. Unless you are claiming they had a morality transplant when they came out with their endurance tires.

So what other quality RV tires then??? Most are Made in CHINA.

LT tires are simply not an option.

Why not? And are those Hercules ST or LT?

And the reason GY lost that suit was because they lied about the Marathons. Which does not make me trust them. Unless you are claiming they had a morality transplant when they came out with their endurance tires.

agesilaus wrote:
BTW GY is being sued and losing over the Marathon failures, cost them over $500,000 in on suit. Think about that before you believe them on their Endurance tires. Remember what Gomer said: "Fool me once....."

Apples and Oranges. The Marathons are made in China and notorious for blowouts. In contrast, the Endurance is made in the USA and I have not read or heard of one blowing yet due to cheap/crappy tire. I am sure someone has hit something and blown one, but Endurance tires are clearly better than other choices, by a wide margin.

For many trailers, LT tires are simply not an option. My trailer has tires that are way over rated for the weight and yet, second trip out on a set of 2½ year old Hercules I had one blow and shred less than 15 miles after leaving home. Hercules is supposed to be a good tire, but I had already replaced the '07 Marathon spare (it went on my rarely used utility trailer) and I replaced the blown tire with another Endurance and continued on the trip. I got home and found the other Hercules in front of the blown one had wires embedded in it, scrap. The two off the other side, one had cracks running the full circumference of the tire in the bottom of the treads, scrap, and the last one looked OK so it too went on the utility trailer.

Charles

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Disk brakes are the ONLY WAY TO GO.

If it's a small trailer and you are headed to South America, I would go standard drum brakes. Simplicity and availability would win out in my mind. It's different from the USA where you can get overnight delivery of parts via amazon.

As far as the old truck tires...did you check the date stamp on them? Just because they have lots of tread doesn't mean they aren't at the end of life.

If the bolt patterns match up, that's great but if not you might consider tires that can fit either rim. Out in the hinterlands, finding someone who can swap the tires onto a different rim is actually very likely. They tend to be adaptable away from big cities.

He said his Dodge is old school even though his posts are a bit cryptic.
Plus all srw Dodges and Rams are still 8x6.5 anyway.

Grit dog wrote:

The tires.. I have a old chevy farm truck with numerous problems with almost new 16" Michelin tires I want to swap to my dodge diesel.. And also the fact I want to run eight identical tires all around and trailer rims don't come in 17".

Thanks!

Fist thing to check is the bolt pattern. I know you said they are both 8 lug but is the Dodge 6 1/2" pattern like the Chevy or is your Dodge newer with the metric pattern?

agesilaus wrote:
We switched from 15in GY Marathons ST to Goodrich 16in Commercial TA LT tires and have been very happy with them after 13500 miles. You have to watch the clearance in the wheel well when you go to a larger tire.
We did have a problem with an electrical box that our OEM idiotically stuck in the wheel well
BTW GY is being sued and losing over the Marathon failures, cost them over $500,000 in on suit. Think about that before you believe them on their Endurance tires. Remember what Gomer said: "Fool me once....."

PLEASE show no ONE case of a GY ENDURANCE non road hazard failure in the four years since they were introduced.

We switched from 15in GY Marathons ST to Goodrich 16in Commercial TA LT tires and have been very happy with them after 13500 miles. You have to watch the clearance in the wheel well when you go to a larger tire.
We did have a problem with an electrical box that our OEM idiotically stuck in the wheel well
BTW GY is being sued and losing over the Marathon failures, cost them over $500,000 in on suit. Think about that before you believe them on their Endurance tires. Remember what Gomer said: "Fool me once....."

disc brakes for trailer, not vehicle...

Drum brakes on trailers are electric and very easy to use, and almost everyone (who tows serious) has the electric brake controller, so the trailer will be useful down the road.
Unless trailer is super heavy then do not go disc. Drum brakes are fine as far as being able to do the job. Often the tires of the trailer lock up way way before the drum brakes are pushed to any sort of limits. This means the drum brakes are working very well, and almost all light to medium weight trailers will be operated by a brake controller turned way way down (low power setting). So, seems most do not need more power from brakes.