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Re: [GMCnet] Confused about Tires [message #74873 is a reply to message #74862]

Wed, 24 February 2010 08:06

Steven Ferguson

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It is usually the forward rears that are out of alignment from hitting
obstacles and also because they see the hardest braking in the rear.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Ken Burton <n9cv@comcast.net> wrote:
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>
> I have seen several blown tires on coaches show up at rallies. �They always seem to be on the middle tires and the ones I checked were well over 15 years old.
>
> We had one separate on a coach that we picked up from a junk yard in Massachusetts and were transporting back to Indiana. �We could not tell if it was 17 or 27 years old. �It was also near flat when we picked it up and we had to put air in it prior to moving the coach.
>
> The tire damage could have been from age or it could have been from them moving it around before we picked it up with only 18 PSI in that tire.
>
> It was an interesting failure because Dick was driving and we were 300 or 400 miles down the road. �He called me on the radio saying he had just thrown a fan belt. �We stopped and checked the belts and nothing was wrong. �As he was getting back in the coach and I looked at the tires. �The one on the passenger side middle had peeled the tread completely off but it was still inflated and running on the steel cord. � Needless to say we changed it before we continued on our way home. �There was no damage to the coach but who knows where the tread went. �I never saw it and I was following the coach in my Blazer.
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		Re: [GMCnet] Confused about Tires By: Steven Ferguson on Sat, 27 February 2010 07:27
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