Leveling with air bags correctly
After reading forums I did what they said. I think all that I have read have been COMPLETELY wrong. I don't mean to offend anyone, and I'm sure maybe this was mentioned already buried in long string...
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Example same 07 Dodge solid axle truck, 170 k miles now and onky one alignment, toe was off and pulling one direction. Hit something I suppose. Original steering components.
Tire wear was probably 2x as much living in CO mountains commuting I 70 or Hwy 285 down into Denver daily compared to other locations where driving habits are differnet.
Something to think about. Did you notice tires feathering after touring through the mountains back n forth, lots of switchbacks, for a while then it corrected itself after driving back home on "straighter" roads?
Did you notice any feathering or wear on the outside of rear tires?
Just throwing out some ideas as to the cause. Becasue a few inches in rear ride height doesn't compute as the cause.
I have had work trucks and personal trucks, 30 or 40 of them over the last 25 years. Some are loaded all the time and perpetually "sagging" a bit others not. Mountains, flatlands well over 500k miles and the accelerated wear your describing happened all the time but exclusively when living in the mountains where no matter which direction you drove it was high speed curves or switchback roads all day everyday.
The fact that the tire wear stopped leads me to believe it was more the driving/road conditions that cause the wear than how the truck was setup.
Thinking about your trip, MI to west coast and back. First 1000mi is straight roads, then a bunch of mountains and then more mountains depending where you went, then 1000miles of stringy road home. Possibility the mountains in the middle of the trip are the culprit?
Tire wear was probably 2x as much living in CO mountains commuting I 70 or Hwy 285 down into Denver daily compared to other locations where driving habits are differnet.
Something to think about. Did you notice tires feathering after touring through the mountains back n forth, lots of switchbacks, for a while then it corrected itself after driving back home on "straighter" roads?
Did you notice any feathering or wear on the outside of rear tires?
Just throwing out some ideas as to the cause. Becasue a few inches in rear ride height doesn't compute as the cause.
I have had work trucks and personal trucks, 30 or 40 of them over the last 25 years. Some are loaded all the time and perpetually "sagging" a bit others not. Mountains, flatlands well over 500k miles and the accelerated wear your describing happened all the time but exclusively when living in the mountains where no matter which direction you drove it was high speed curves or switchback roads all day everyday.
The fact that the tire wear stopped leads me to believe it was more the driving/road conditions that cause the wear than how the truck was setup.
Thinking about your trip, MI to west coast and back. First 1000mi is straight roads, then a bunch of mountains and then more mountains depending where you went, then 1000miles of stringy road home. Possibility the mountains in the middle of the trip are the culprit?
