Overloaded wheel Breakage
OUCH! This was very interesting, now I am glad we got rid of our stock wheels. In our case the 3500 Dodge SRW came with tires rated at about 3000 pounds each, I tried to find out what the wheel ...
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Siletzspey wrote:
FYI/question - on a 1-ton, the tire, wheel, axle, spring and frame ratings tend to be max'ed out equally, so upgrading just one component doesn't necessarily buy you much. I read what seemed like a fairly competent posting elsewhere that the lug bolts (pattern, count, size) are another weight-rated link-in-the-chain to consider. While the tires always win the weakest-link award, I wonder where lug bolts fall in the line-up?
Axles are in fact very under-rated by the truck makers.
If you check with the axle makers, you’ll find that 3/4 and 1-ton rear axles are rated a whole lot higher than the truck makers claim.
Upgrading wheels and tires gets you real benefits.
