HELP - Need help troubleshooting rear end

[Jim Eh.]

Just had a customer with <1000 miles on a set of Yokohamas that one had separated in the center cords. He could not see any wobble when he followed the unit but once it was jacked in the air and the tire rotated it was very easy to see.  Easy and free to check.

[Seangie]

That's good stuff...I'd be kind of pissed as its less than a year old but it would be an easy fix.

-Sean

Wandering the country in a 1984 Eagle 10S. 
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[Seangie]

Just to wrap this one up...rotating the tire on the bus showed no signs of separation or damage to the tire.  When we put it on the balancer it was way out of balance and you could see the tire itself seemed to be slightly "out of round". 

On top of this issue the 4 tires on the back which all had pretty good thread were all dated from 1999. So those had to go.

I ended up putting 2 new tires on the front.  I moved the one new front tire that was having issues to the inside on the rear and bought 3 new capped tires for the rear to go with it.

The other front tire had some chips and scuffs in the tread so we moved that to the spare which was bald and dated from 1999 like the other 4.

After all that the coach drives noticeably better than before.

Thanks all again for the advice and direction.

-Sean

[bevans6]

I've thought about this a lot - mostly in the middle of the night when I am awake and should be asleep...  If I have one less good than all the rest tire (like if I ever put my spare on, which is completely bald and probably was OEM from 1980) it will go on the passenger side outside rear position.  Theory being that if it then fails, it is on a rear, so there is the other dual as redundancy, and a good tire guy can change it without even taking the wheel off the bus, and it will be off the road while this happens.  Not that it would ever work out like this, but you have to have something to think about in the middle of the night...

Brian