Little known fact not always true

Posted by jdemaris on April 12, 2005 at 06:23:14 from (209.23.28.93):

In Reply to: Another little known fact posted by old on April 11, 2005 at 11:07:01:

That's not the case in all situations. I worked, off and on, for a mobile home place here in central New York State that was next door to our Deere dealership. All the axles we installed and homes we trucked had working brakes when they went out. Not always when they arrived.
We had a huge pile of complete axle assemblies, mostly take-offs. When we picked through the pile for axles to use, we either picked those in working order, or fixed them before installing. They use a pretty simple brake system and it's easy to fix. We also offered axles for sale since we had an overabundance of them. $100 per axle if it had wheels, tires, and brakes, or $75 if no brakes. The tires just about never have DOT ratings on them so I don't know if they are supposed to pass MV inspection or not. At one time, we had a mountain of the smaller 7 X 14.5s because they are not being used anymore. All of the tires are now 8s or 9s. We also had a mountain of the old style one-piece 14.5" wheels which you don't see much anymore.
I had a sort of bad tire experience just recently. One of my equipment trailers still had the four original 7 X 14.5, non DOT, dry-rotted tires on it. They never leaked, never had any problems but I was getting worried with all the cracks and dry-rot. So, I went to my local Goodyear dealer and bought four new, DOT highway rated tires. They've been the worse crap I've ever used. I'm not sure if it's bad luck or crap tires - but I've been getting flats almost every time I use the trailer. Last time a small piece of shale pierced one of the tires.

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• Re: Little known fact not always true old 07:54:45 04/12/05 (2)
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