PSI With New Tires...
I've been towing a 26' 8,000# camper with my Ram 1500 for the past 4 years with the stock passenger tires. Door jamb says 39 psi. Tomorrow I am having a set of BFG LT tires put on and was wondering ...
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BillyW wrote:
I don't believe you. I know from first hand experience that load handling improves with more pressure all the way up to the 51 max psi of the tires. I have experienced this and know it to be true. I could barely keep my truck and trailer on the road at 50mph and 35psi. Yet it was rock solid at 51psi.
I'm just the messenger reporting what a tire engineer says about P tire vs LT tire load/pressure charts.
Reread what CapriRacer says in my above reply.
We all know higher pressure stiffen the tires sidewalls.
What was said is your P tires don't gain any more "load capacity" above 35 psi.....even if you pumped them up to 51 psi.
