How do you SRW guys rotate tires?

[rivercat]

I have seen in every book to do a cross pattern or such. Then you run into oldtimers that insist on running radials one way the life of the tire says it keeps the belts from breaking. What is right ? ? ? ?

just plain front to back or front to back then cross back onto front like book recomends ?

 

[kenny61]

I do front to back. after a quick check with a few tire manuf. web sites, they recomend following the owners manual

 

[macdaddy]

Old topic... ...



Before the Dually life style.....



RR to RF



LR to LF



RF to LR



LF to RR.



Just about all you tire manuf and your owners manny wants then spinning backwards at some point in the rotation, Prevents "Cupping".



Old school issues were from the older Radials.



Mac

 

[BDaugherty]

Standard radial tires that are not directional, I like to move the rears straight to the front and then cross the fronts on the way back to the rear. However, directional tires such as my Procomp Extreme A/Ts have to stay on the same side. I swap them front to back at each oil change. However, if I see wear that cannot be corrected by front to back rotation, I will break each tire down and turn it around on the wheel to allow running it on the other side.



The two best sources for rotation information are your owner's manual and the actual tire manufacturer.

 

[WDixon27]

i have had and seen enough car tires belts back up when reversed that i don't reverse any tire anymore, not worth it

 

[rivercat]

well good stuff.

I find toyota drivers are the true people to aask for rotation info cause unlike our beasts yotas are super lite yet run many of the same tire models,so there tire wear is the stuff of legands, have heard of a faithful rotator getting 70+ thousand on a set of BFG A/Ts on a 4x4 tacoma.


then had a friend not sure how faithful his rotations were but his tacoma after 6 or so years of ocassinal driving and bfg ATs at like 40% started a out of balence type of shimmy that the shop couldn't correct and had to buy new to get the smooth ride back, could have been from reversing said the belts had compromised/streached? somehow and the tires though still had useable tread had bad run out...

 

[MRFost]

Just front-to-back and vice versa. I don't reverse the belts. Don't use the spare, either. I do keep the same diameter on the spare as the rest of the tires, thereabouts, just in case I need to use it.

 

[rbattelle]

My pattern:



Spare->Right Front->Left Rear->Left Front->Right Rear->Spare





79000 on the original equipment Michelin LTX tires from 2003. Tons of tread remaining. I'm hoping to get 100k out of them.



Ryan

 

[RWinzen]

I too have used the MacDaddy method. Put 50K+ on my originals, then sold them for $75 each (good tire, just no traction while hunting) and put almost 75K on my BFGs, have roughly 45K on my GY Silent Armors now with no cupping or uneven wear and quite a bit of life left on them. (who really knows how much, but I expect another 20-30K) I rotate and balance mine every 5K. Put 392K on my old '95, used the same method, never put less then 50K on a set. Some sets did much better.

 

[rivercat]

you people must drive like grandpas to get all that mileage! probably go 100k on front brakes too huh


what about pressure?
OEMS call for 80 # s max what do you guys run ?

my 8 ply coopers were 50 #s max and the newer 10 ply toyos are 65, im running 55-60 I think...

 

[Garlic]

Rotate? You mean you are supposed to rotate your tires??

I have been to many schools and seen many schools of thought on this, my opinion is:

If your tires are wearing true and you have no obvious wear problems why should you move them? If you have wear problems it is probably not because of the tires.

On the 96 when it is tme for new shoes (I will run them to 80% of useful tread life,to about 4 or 5/32nds) then put 2 new tires on the front, the rears actually wear faster than the fronts do. I know almost every tire dealer says not to put the new ones on the front, but that is the way I have done it for 30 years and have NO ill effects. The 07. 5 with 28K on the clock still has 50% useable tread life left but the side walls are cracking (dry rot at only 2 years old!! Dang Michlens) the tires are still in the same position they were when I bought the truck and will probably stay there unless a problem surfaces and they need to be replaced. Take it for what it is this is my opinion.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

I get lazy on rotations... when my rears have about half the tread as the fronts, I just go straight front to rear

 

[rbattelle]

In think they should change the name to "revolving" the tires. They rotate enough when you're driving.

I run 60-65 lb in front and 50-55 lb in the back.

Ryan

 

[WDixon27]

ditto, i got around 25k outta the mister tire brand cheapo fronts the place i bought the truck from installed the day i bought it, they had some tread left but not much and were starting to chunk a little, for the most part all unloaded and running around 50 psi

you people must drive like grandpas to get all that mileage! probably go 100k on front brakes too huh





what about pressure?

OEMS call for 80 # s max what do you guys run ?



my 8 ply coopers were 50 #s max and the newer 10 ply toyos are 65, im running 55-60 I think...