Need engineers thoughts on wheel offset
Travel trailer wheels have either a centered or outside offset. My question is this. I have outside offset wheels and have sheared off wheel bolts on 2 different wheels I have weighed everything and I...
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The title is misleading as OP talks about wheel centering.
Centering is determinate by hub design and you can't change it other than changing the hub.
In case of lug shearing, when they were torqued to 90 ft-lb I can only guess they were over-torqued in the past and now break with metal fatigue.
Would order quality bolt and that should solve the issue.
Wheel bolts usually have safety factor about 5, so it takes a lot to have one broken.
