Travel trailer tire size
Hello, I need to put new tires on the travel trailer I just bought, 1968 13ft yellow stone. I looked at the current tires to see what size I needed, as you would think you would do, and it seems the p...
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hawkeye-08 wrote:
With a single axle trailer (assuming 13' trailer is single axle), you would not need to worry about a tire needing to handle the sidewall stresses when turning like you would with double axle. I would put any tire on that met the weight requirements, whether it be ST, P or LT... as long as it fit and did not rub.
Great point.
Fact is we didn't have ST tires back in those days. We either used a passenger car tire (P tire today) or a light truck tire (LT today).
We had lots of 14"/15" car and truck tire sizes to choose from. Not so much today.
I keep P tires on a tandem axle trailer with 3500 lb axles and every single axle trailer I've owned.
