Tire and wheel weight ratings
I have a 10.6 Bigfoot camper on a 2000 Ford F350 crew cab long bed 4WD SRW. The rear axle weight loaded is 7380 lb. I want to put BF Goodrich TA KO2 285 75R 16 load range E tires on it. The load rati...
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SoCalDesertRider,
Long time no see in print. June 15th and no wheels yet. Someone on here did mention that one of their Stockton whees did fail, but that was before the owner committed suicide and there was a shakeup with the company who now claim they have nothing to do with the pre-suicide Stockton Wheel. Boy, that's ugly. Time will tell.
My favorite truck camper tire of all time is/were the Mickey Thompson 375x55R16's (33x15.50R16) on 12 inch wide rims that are breathing their last. They have lasted and lasted for years with a lot of hard miles on them. They wear very slowly. Simply the best all around TC tire that will work on sand as well as street, in any weather. We have put 2500 miles on the rig on two sorties along the coast and they are getting down to the wear bars.
I was tempted to call Thompson Tire to see if they could produce them again with some changes. I'm thinking their marketing was all wrong. What if you could have a super single tire that would take place of a set of duals with a 4500 pound rating and also an aggressive All weather tread. Once you have pressure down to floatation levels the tread doesn't matter so much on sand. The term, "Grave Digger", a skinny aggressive mud/snow tire was called that because the users had no clue about deflating them down for floatation. To seal the deal, Thompson (or someone) would have to make, say an 11 inch wide super single wheel for the rear axle with a 4500 pound rating (with a 4-1/2 inch B.S.) to go along with the upgraded tire. Now, would anyone buy such a rig? I don't know. There seemed to be very little interest in my super single design on here when I put it together about 6 years ago.
jefe
Long time no see in print. June 15th and no wheels yet. Someone on here did mention that one of their Stockton whees did fail, but that was before the owner committed suicide and there was a shakeup with the company who now claim they have nothing to do with the pre-suicide Stockton Wheel. Boy, that's ugly. Time will tell.
My favorite truck camper tire of all time is/were the Mickey Thompson 375x55R16's (33x15.50R16) on 12 inch wide rims that are breathing their last. They have lasted and lasted for years with a lot of hard miles on them. They wear very slowly. Simply the best all around TC tire that will work on sand as well as street, in any weather. We have put 2500 miles on the rig on two sorties along the coast and they are getting down to the wear bars.
I was tempted to call Thompson Tire to see if they could produce them again with some changes. I'm thinking their marketing was all wrong. What if you could have a super single tire that would take place of a set of duals with a 4500 pound rating and also an aggressive All weather tread. Once you have pressure down to floatation levels the tread doesn't matter so much on sand. The term, "Grave Digger", a skinny aggressive mud/snow tire was called that because the users had no clue about deflating them down for floatation. To seal the deal, Thompson (or someone) would have to make, say an 11 inch wide super single wheel for the rear axle with a 4500 pound rating (with a 4-1/2 inch B.S.) to go along with the upgraded tire. Now, would anyone buy such a rig? I don't know. There seemed to be very little interest in my super single design on here when I put it together about 6 years ago.
jefe
