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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JIMNLIN wrote:Guess someone needs to define what "load capacity" really means. Because my tires didn't have the capacity to safely handle the load at 35 PSI, but they did at 51 PSI.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.
