how do YOU rotate?
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With the stock tires I did a 4 tire, front to back, back to front cross. When I up graded to larger tires on stock rims I bought 5 tires and a matching OEM rim/wheel for the spare. Now I do a 5 tire, cross rotation with the spare every 5K. It is actually easier and quicker because I only have to jackup 1 tire at a time.
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Backs to fronts; fronts to backs NOT crossed.
Reason: Crossing keeps the torque going the same direction (Front tires do stopping; rear tires do pushing) -- and if you don't change direction of the torque, you keep the feather-edging or saw-toothing going. I prefer to counter the wear.
By keeping the tire on the same side of the vehicle, the front (braking wear) tire now becomes the rear (driving wear) pattern.
I do understand the alternative theory -- saying I'm increasing the wear rate of my tires by artificially-wearing down the saw-tooth.
I believe I'm reducing the tendency of my tires to develop cup-wear by my method (I have 38K on Goodyear RT/S with very little cupping -- and are 64% worn - relative to the wear bars -- which predicts 59K life when I hit the wear bar point).
Reason: Crossing keeps the torque going the same direction (Front tires do stopping; rear tires do pushing) -- and if you don't change direction of the torque, you keep the feather-edging or saw-toothing going. I prefer to counter the wear.
By keeping the tire on the same side of the vehicle, the front (braking wear) tire now becomes the rear (driving wear) pattern.
I do understand the alternative theory -- saying I'm increasing the wear rate of my tires by artificially-wearing down the saw-tooth.
I believe I'm reducing the tendency of my tires to develop cup-wear by my method (I have 38K on Goodyear RT/S with very little cupping -- and are 64% worn - relative to the wear bars -- which predicts 59K life when I hit the wear bar point).
Last edited by Y2K 7700 4x4; 06-03-2002 at 09:39 PM.
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rhdf150, every 5k miles?? Geez, thats pretty often. Just curious for the reason though . I though you put a decent amount of miles on your HD in a year cuz didn't you already get new tires? I'm just wondering.
I do mine every 10K which is once a year for me, and i change my oil twice a year so every 5k miles on my HD, and for my old truck i change the oil once a year, cuz she only gets around 4k miles a year.
I do mine every 10K which is once a year for me, and i change my oil twice a year so every 5k miles on my HD, and for my old truck i change the oil once a year, cuz she only gets around 4k miles a year.
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Front to rear every 5000 miles. Free lifetime rotation and balancing came with my BFG AT at Tire Discounters and this is the mileage they recommend so why not. I have had them rotated twice and I had them balanced both times. At first roation I had slight cupping due to bad shocks and front bearings, by second rotation cupping is almost gone. Tire wear in 10-11K miles is very slight, heck I still have some of the little nubbies on them.
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I've stuck with front to back and back to front on the same side only. Seemed to be working for me. Got just over 50k miles on the original RT/S hockey pucks but they still had tread left, I just felt a bit unsafe in the rain so got new AT/S rubber.
The change interval I used was long. Perhaps every 15k miles. No uneven wear or anything. Perhaps I'm lucky that my F-150 has an alignment that is spot on or something.
I don't do the X pattern rotation simply because of counteracting the feathering of the tread as was mentioned above.
The change interval I used was long. Perhaps every 15k miles. No uneven wear or anything. Perhaps I'm lucky that my F-150 has an alignment that is spot on or something.
I don't do the X pattern rotation simply because of counteracting the feathering of the tread as was mentioned above.
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