How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

[Nos4r2]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

Always wanted to drive one of them. Not sure I'd like to try and stop one in a hurry though!

 

[rwidman]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

<br />What is the point of checking the tyre/assembly temperatures if you don't know the correct running temp, or do the people with 'infared thermometers' have the knowledge?<br />...........

Get a "baseline" temperature for each, then later you will know if you have a problem. My non-braking hubs run just a few degrees above ambient temperature. My brake drums (I can measure through the spokes of the wheels with the IR thermometer) run about 150 degrees after driving in traffic. Hubs on these axles will be about 120 degrees or so. For highway driving with little braking, the drums and hubs will run cooler. If I measure the temperature of the tires, it's just to compare them with each other. Temps will vary with ambient temperature and distance and speed.<br /><br />Most important is that everything matches within a few degrees from side to side. If it doesn't there's a problem.<br /><br />BTW: Check tire pressure before each trip, tires should be at the maximum pressure marked on the sidewall when the tires are cold (ambient temperature).

 

[gonefishie]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

so what if the tire pressure is lower than what recommended on the tire wall? I checked mine and they are significantly lower but the tires doesn't look flat and very normal. I think the recommended pressure is around 50 psi and my tires pressure is only around 35 cold. They are 13" on a 2500 lbs boat/trailer combine weight. They do get hot lately enough that I can smell the rubber when standing next to the boat but not too hot to touch. The hub and wheel are cool.

 

[rwidman]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

Originally posted by gonefishie:<br /> so what if the tire pressure is lower than what recommended on the tire wall? I checked mine and they are significantly lower but the tires doesn't look flat and very normal. I think the recommended pressure is around 50 psi and my tires pressure is only around 35 cold. They are 13" on a 2500 lbs boat/trailer combine weight. They do get hot lately enough that I can smell the rubber when standing next to the boat but not too hot to touch. The hub and wheel are cool.

With the higher pressure they will flex less and heat up less. Also there will be less tendency for the trailer to sway.

 

[gonefishie]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

Huh, well my trailer doesn't really sway at all but I'll air them up to see the different. Wouldn't it be more prone to blow out if the tire is fully inflated? Since heat expands air inside a tire that already full?

 

[brother chris]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

Originally posted by BoatBuoy:<br /> Australian Road Train. I count 110 tires.<br />

Now that is amazing! But how do you back it up? <br />You would have to couter-act the trailer turning the opposite way, then the one behind it, doing the opposite, then the one behind it, doing the opposite, then the one behind that, doing the opposite, then the one behind that, doing the opposite, then the one behind that doing the opposite. <br />Crazy!

 

[Dunaruna]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

They don't back them, everywhere they go has large turning yards.

 

[gonefishie]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

that would be a pretty good joke on someone making him backing it up and tell hime that it can be done.

 

[fondafj]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

gonefishie,<br /> The heat in a tire is generated by friction between the belts. At a fixed load, a tire at a lower pressure will generate more internal friction than a higher pressure tire --- and with it --- more heat.

 

[gonefishie]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

Got ya centsless, I'll air them suckers up.

 

[b.gagnon]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

I always give the hub a grab.

 

[QC]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

Originally posted by b.gagnon:<br /> I always give the hub a grab.

I lightly "touch" mine . . .

 

[rg33]

Re: How many people check their trailer tire temps at rest stops?

Originally posted by Quietcat:<br />

Originally posted by b.gagnon:<br /> I always give the hub a grab.

I lightly "touch" mine . . .

I massage at first stop