Rotate Non Radial Tires

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Your collective opinions please? I just finished installing new king pins and aligning the front end.

I'm assuming that to equal out the ware on the treaded tires of my "A" I need to 'X' them like in the good old days before 'front to back~same side' radials?

So left front to right rear and right front to left rear? I only have one spare on the stern so I'm not introducing that into the mix.

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[Tom Wesenberg]

Sounds good to me.

I can break in that new front end for you. The temporary one I'm using is pretty sloppy.

 

[Jerry Parr WI]

My latest Ford now says X them just like the old days.

 

[Jack '29 Sport Coupe]

Yep.

Jack

 

[roccaas]

The guys at Kelsey (Goodyear WW's) advocated rears to the front without switching sides, fronts to the rear with a side swap. Every 1000 miles or less. In 4,000 miles you get all of the stresses on each carcass.

 

[Mike V. Florida]

Found this

 

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Now that you have eliminated any problems with new kingpins, it is essential that you correct toe-in. Ford specs call for 3/32 +- 1/16 (hope that I didn't mix the numbers up; verify in the service bulletins. Make sure that you get the latest out of the Service Bulletins as the earlier spec was had more toe-in and that was reduced by Ford.