[Land-speed] Tires for my Trailer

Skip Higginbotham saltrat at pahrump.com
Wed May 16 11:05:38 MDT 2012


I run 16,500 and six Goodyear Marathon, LR E, max pressure on sidewall 
always, 60-65 MPH. Only failures when I run over something and puncture one. 
Stopped having tread separation when I stopped listening to tire shops who 
wanted me to run 50 psi. Also no Chinese tires ever again!!!!

Skip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: "23weldon" <23.weldon at comcast.net>
Cc: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 06:33
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Tires for my Trailer


> As mentioned in one post reply, the failures happen in seemingly random
> locations.  Except for the last two. The drivers side middle axle failed
> and I never even knew it, lol. It exploded and sen rubber parts
> everywhere. Then the trailing wheel was found to be bad also when I was
> changing the middle one. It hand not failed but the tread was separating
> from the sidewall at the shoulder. Others have occurred on the P side
> but always singly.  Common factor seems to be the manner of failure and
> that is tread separation at the shoulder of the tire.
>
> When I load the trailer I try and load it somewhat symmetrically.  Motor
> of the car is between the first two axles, etc...
>
> mayf
>
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> On 5/15/2012 10:55 PM, 23weldon wrote:
>> Mayf - Is there any perceivable pattern to which trailer tire
>> locations fail?  If so it may be some non-uniform loading on the
>> trailer wheels.  A single axle trailer is a simple statics problem.
>> But add a second axle and the statics problem becomes inderterminate
>> influenced by the relative "springiness" of every load point.
>> ...............Ed
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
>> To: "Neil Albaugh" <neil at dbelltech.com>
>> Cc: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Tires for my Trailer
>>> Neil, as I just sent a reply to another post...my trailer  is 15800
>>> capacity tripple axle. I load it to around 10 k.  tires are faithfully
>>> kept to the highest rating on the side walls. I think Greenball is the
>>> maker of Towmaster tires.  I think and that may be dangerous, lol.  Been
>>> a while since my thinker has worked well apparently.   How fast do
>>> you tow?> mayf
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