Boat trailer tire wear

[Beasley]

My tires are wearing pretty bad on the outside 3” of the tread on both sides of a single axle trailer. I keep the air pressure at max psi also. Anyone know of a place around Springfield that can do an alignment on it and adjust the axle so when I buy new ones I won’t ruin them too

[curtisce]

Try Peck's on the northwest side of Springfield. rhey do good general maintance on trailers ,not sure about alignments.

[Dutch]

7 minutes ago, curtisce said:

Try Peck's on the northwest side of Springfield. rhey do good general maintance on trailers ,not sure about alignments.

Corner of Kearney and Campbell 

[Dutch]

2 hours ago, Beasley said:

My tires are wearing pretty bad on the outside 3” of the tread on both sides of a single axle trailer. I keep the air pressure at max psi also. Anyone know of a place around Springfield that can do an alignment on it and adjust the axle so when I buy new ones I won’t ruin them too

Is this a new thing?  How long have you had the trailer and what weight is the boat?

[Beasley]

 Bought my boat used 3 years ago and it’s been wearing tires since I got it. I just had the tires flipped so I could get more life out of them but I’m getting close to needing new ones now so I want to get it fixed. It’s a 2016 triton 18tx basically an rt188. Not sure the exact weight but I’m guessing around 1250 pounds or so

[Dutch]

The reason why I asked is the axle needs weight to make it straight.  If there isn’t enough the slightly humped axle will cause that kind of wear.

 I had a Lowe 180 with a 115 outboard.  The tires wore the same way.  Lowe told me how to measure the axle and frame to check alignment.  It measured within specs.  I never did get it figured out.  I just had the tires flipped on the rims like you stated.

Are your tires trailer tires or passenger car tires?

[Beasley]

I’m using trailer tires. I’m hoping that it’s not something I’m just going to have to deal with. 10,000 miles isn’t many miles to be trashed. I’ll call pecks and see if they can do an alignment on the trailer

[fishinwrench]

If both tires are wearing on the outside then you're "Toed-in".  

Clamp a pair of 4x4's across the frame directly above the axle and use a bottle jack to flex the axle into alignment. 

Use a tight string for a reference.   

[Beasley]

Thanks I’ll give that a try