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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ticki2 wrote:
Hub centric wheels are more for convenience than load bearing
Other than your thoughts which might be right, btw. Do you have any references other than wheel manufacturers? I can find a lot of references that say that they are load bearing which is not to say the bear all of the load all of the time. See the post above yours for two.
Here’s the credentials from the writer of the bottom one
Charles C. Roberts, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., is an engineering consultant in the areas of accident reconstruction, failure analysis, structural analysis, heat transfer, fire origin analysis, computer analysis, mechanics, and biomechanics.
