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Old 11-12-2010, 03:01 AM
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Inside tread wear issues

Hey guys I'm hoping somebody can give me a little bit of insight into this. I have a six inch procomp suspension lift on my 08 f150 and I have had nothing but problems with the tires on my front end. I burned off a set of BF ATs and switched over to Toyo MTs. I got the Toyos in March and they are already almost finished all due to inside tread wear on the front end. They maybe have 30 or 40 thousand kms on them and have been rotated frequently. Ive had alignments done regularly and I just recently had a front end inspection done to make sure nothing was fishy with the ball joints or anything else. Still the inside tread on the front tires is wearing like crazy and the only option i can see is to flip them on the rim to get a few more miles out of them. (they aint cheap!) Can anybody relate to this or have any ideas of what the hell may be going on? Any thoughts are appreciated.

P.S. Its worse on the driver side then the passenger side....
 
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Old 11-12-2010, 04:03 AM
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What wheels do you have? 35's?
 
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Old 11-12-2010, 04:13 AM
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I was having problems then checked the front bearings they were lose so I tightened them up and all is good! You really have to keep an eye on that especially with big wheel tire combo ruined some cross drilled rotors that way
 
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Old 11-12-2010, 04:16 AM
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Dont forget the grease

Sorry forgot if your gonna go through pulling the caps off make sure theyre
greased up good!
 
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Old 11-12-2010, 06:20 AM
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Still sounds like an alignment problem to me......time to find a competent alignment shop w/calibrated equipment
 
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Old 11-12-2010, 11:05 AM
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I have to agree. Still sounds like alignment to me as well. Could be a combo of both though. Wheel bearings will cause the wheel to not ride straight, but I would think you would hear it rattling or sounding loose.
 
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Old 11-13-2010, 02:58 PM
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Ya I figure I'll search out a good reliable offroad shop and get it looked at. Thanks guys!
 



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