Tire Wear?

[Dave Zuber]

With the long wheel base of the crew cab 4x4, you will push the tires in a tight turn, thus wearing the outside edge of the steer tires. Find you some clean concrete and turn the wheels close to the lock and drive in a circle, then get out and look at the concrete, you will see all the black marks you have left. My driveway has all the evidence you need since I turn tight in it every night. I run 80 psi in the fronts and 45 in the rears unless the 5ver is on, then it is 80 all around.

Agree with this. I've seen the same wear on all my front straight axle trucks. The Ackermann angle on these aren't perfect at extreme turns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry
So, the front outside scrubs more. To fix it, just don't do tight turns. And rotate after the first 5k miles. I've found this effect slows after the tires get a few miles.

I rotate them after

 

[DrDiesel1]

You are past the standard rotation mileage. This is normal tire wear from turning. Rotate your tires.

 

[rrl989]

You are past the standard rotation mileage. This is normal tire wear from turning. Rotate your tires.

When I went with the Laramie pkg, I knew rotating tires would not be cost effective for me. The front "outside only" polished Alcoa's only get rotated by swapping front left/right.
With my driving style, it probably pays just to replace the fronts when they wear down too far.

 

[gsbrockman]

With the introduction of TPIS on the '14 and up DRW's......rotations are a PITA even if one has six steel wheels...........

http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/2...00-tpis-tire-pressure-information-system.html

 

[rrl989]

With the introduction of TPIS on the '14 and up DRW's......rotations are a PITA even if one has six steel wheels...........

http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/2...00-tpis-tire-pressure-information-system.html

Gee, thank you for mentioning the TPIS #@$%! With my dealer recently replacing my RF Hub (had a hidden code I was told), then subsequently performing the "recall" last week,
I now have the following reoccurring issue with the TPIS at 6 months/ 6000 miles. I'm seeing the front DS tire is not being read, at some point while driving it reads, but gets lost
again and again and again....I doubt its the sender, more likely a hub issue since they just did the work on it?

Well, they also replaced this EVIC/dashboard last week?

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[tony1461571]

With the rear tire pressure that you guys run do any of you use nitrogen in your tires. In my 98.5 I started using it when I got my new 5th wheel it had it in the tires I just left my tires on the truck at 80psi all the time in all 6 tires. Had good wear on the fronts all the time they were LTX M/S 2s Michelin they lasted forever.