[Richard]

So now, I am exasperated on call David for help. I send him out intinerary, and he hooks us up with a shop in Columbia MS. I pay to have all six tires spun balanced again. Except MS is one of the states that has outlawed lead weights. The guy doing the work is a mumbled, and clearly irritated that i watching him like a hawk. He can’t get the fronts to balance. Mumble, mumble, mumble. I find out at the next shop he has used hammer on weights intended for steel rims. He did manage to tear one of the fender flares loose from the coach because he would listen when I told him how it must be jacked.

Hit the road again. NO improvement. Call David again. WE have to replace the drive tires. That won’t fix the steering wheel shake but the tired have to go. He has six Mich Zline steers waiting for me Twin Falls ID. Two Idaho farm boys come to the campground. Change the tires, add the beads, torque the nuts, and are extremely pleasant to be around. Test drive and vibration software says rears are now good to go. I left the almost brand new takeoff with them on consignment on a leap of faith. It worked out. ON a sidebar, I lost almost a MPG with the lugged tires, and it came right back with the steer tires on the rear.

Now, I just have the steer tires to OCD about for the next 3000 miles. I take them to a shop in Spokane, when the tech is very good. He does exactly what i ask him to do. He deflates the tire rotates it on the rim, and reinflates with the tire and rim flat on the ground to give the tire the best chance of seating true to the rim. I watch him balance the tires, and he too has a lot of trouble. Well I have pictures, bills, video of the balancing, and vibration graphs. When I get home, Michelin is going to cough up some new 365s.

On the way home, I cannot stop tinkering and measuring, so I add some beads again to the spun balanced fronts. It gets better, I can live with this, and besides Rhonda doesn’t want to hear about tires.

So, it occurs to me that my chewed up front disc rotors might actually be a contributor. I did find that on a car once. And when I did the 365 conversion many years ago it was before we knew about the Prevost studs, so I went off the reservation and had the 365 rims machined to accept the existing studs.

So I am going to replace the front rotors, and while I am at it obtain the prevost studs and new rims.

It should come across that wouldn’t get up out of the electric chair to go to a truck tire place again. I looked at the total cost of what I had paid and decided I was going into business for myself. I spent less than a 1000 bucks for a 1 inch gun, two tire irons, a torque stick, the 1/2 inch airline, and high flow fittings.

I took the tires off the old front rims, mounted them on the new rims, added 22oz beads to each front. NO scuffs on my new rims. Went for an interstate drive before Covid laid me low. Glasphalt. WOOO HOOOOO.