4104/Spicer Tires - Yet another tire thread, plus a poll!

[chessie4905]

Here's their retread site with tread patterns and tire sizes:

https://www.michelintruck.com/tires-and-retreads/retreads/

[buswarrior]

Michelin is very picky in choosing casings to re-tread. That's a good thing.

Bandag or Michelin, both good reputations and quality control procedures.

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[Nova Eona]

I've got a tire shop about twenty minutes away that does Bandags, that will likely be the route I go - slowly mind you, particularly after tonight's revelations!  Spent about fifteen minutes reaching behind the front tires with my phone until I finally got a picture of the DOT codes (both are stamped on the inner edge of course) so I could figure out the age - only three digits: "118"!  That means my steers were made in '98, so they are legally old enough to drink.  Horrifying.

This weekend I'm going to figure out my axle ratio, but I am currently leaning heavily towards breaking some new ground and putting on 24.5 low-pros.  More to come, in the meantime check out this chasm pictured:

[Nova Eona]

Well gang, I finally got out to the tire shop now that the weather has settled, social distancing and all (I sat out by the road 'working remote' while the guys swapped the tires).  I'd warned them ahead of time that the bus had an air bag suspension, still had to yell at one of the guys to get his head out from under it before they'd blocked it up.  I'd just about convinced myself to stick with the 11r24.5s, but had a last minute change of heart and decided to go for a set of 285/75/r24.5s instead, so I might be breaking new ground on that size here.  Went with a quartet of Double Coin RLB400s (485rpm) on the back and a pair of Firestone FS561s on the front.  Now I can actually drive the thing without worrying about popping a tire off, yay!

[richard5933]

They seem pretty close in size to a 12R22.5 tire. Not exact, but close.

Be interested to see what you think of them after you put on a few miles.

[dtcerrato]

11r 22.5

[ol713]

   HI;
       I would suggest checking out the GM club website and ask what most of them are using.
       A lot of useful info there.

                                                  God luck,   Merle.