Re: PU truck tire pressure

Posted by Jon Hagen on February 12, 2006 at 13:00:20 from (69.26.17.209):

In Reply to: PU truck tire pressure posted by Ken in Mich on February 12, 2006 at 10:41:49:

The information on the tire states that this tire will carry XXXXX pounds of weight at XX psi of air pressure. If you have less than maximum weight on the tire,then it needs less psi pressure to evenly load the tire face for even wear. Go by what the pickup maker recommends,or weigh your pickup,front then rear and set tire pressure according to the chart the tire draler will have for that size tire for a given weight,or the pickup operators manual.

I ran into that deal with my old motor home,the guy at the tire shop said it says 100 psi on the tire,so by gosh you gotta run that much. at 100 psi the old motor home rode so rough that we had screws rolling around on the floor after a 1000 miles on the road. I dug through the operators manual which had a tire weight/size/pressure chart. We stopped at a fertilizer plant in Kansas and used their scale to get the loaded front/rear weight of that old Pace Arrow. Turns out that we were far under the max load that would require 100 psi tire pressure. We needed 45 psi in the rear duals and 55 psi in the front. After that the motorhome rode like a cadillac instead of an old 6X6 army truck.

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