Mobile home axels and tires, will they hold?

When I was a kid, being broke all the time, I would get mobile home tires and put on my Bonneville, it was never "slow" speed in those days. Darn tires out lasted any other tires I ever had!

Craig

The tires will not hold up, they are built as throw-aways and do not handle normal highway speeds. Period.

The rims are an odd size so it is difficult to find cheap good tires for them. The hubs/rims are obvious to be mobile home deals, and will draw the attention of DOT. You do not want this attention.

Axles seem to do ok, altho there may be some DOT issues with them as well.

Legally, you are asking for trouble. In the real world, the rubber won't hold up, the rims need torq attention, and the axles often are quite good.

Here in Minnesota there is a farm exemption, don't need to licence a trailer if it hauls farm items & stay off the interstates, so you see a lot of mobile home trailers for hay & etc.

For your intentions, I would be nervious about the legal issues.

--->Paul

I don't know what you guys are saying about the speed rating of the tires. If they aren't rated for freeway speed, how come I see all these mobile homes rolling down the freeway here in Idaho at speeds of 65mph plus.? Oregon highways as well, and I'll bet that anybody who drives a Tractor Trailer out there and has driven through Oregon, know how strict they are. You guys back east, holy smokes, Oregon is terrible!! Oregon is so bad that when you are so far over weight with your trailer, there comes a point that they start charging you per pound!! I'm constantly seeing the drivers with there "pilot" cars just rolling down the freeway at the same speed or even sometimes faster than other cars on the road. Maybe they need to be told otherwise about their tire ratings, but then again, I seem them pulling in and then right out from the weigh stations with no problems at all!!

After using my dad's trailer however, I know that I don't want one so equiped, for myself.

Branden

Branden

I know what you mean about the DOT inspection. I live in an area that is mostly agriculture. It scares me how some of the local farmers take a careless attitude toward themselves and the public when it comes to securing loads and equipment maintenance. Bales of hay laying in the middle of the freeway, bent axles on discs and other implements being pulled at a high rate of speed down the road, so much so that the bent axle is causing the trailer or implement to bounce and occasionaly become air born. It's scarry. What's worse, what really sets me off, is when they take their farm dog and put him on their truck bed, flat bed, with no sides, go down the highway and turn on the side roads at speed and the dog about slides off. I hate that.

Branden

everyone's correct in saying MH tires are not rated for the road in fact it states on the tire for MH use only.

That being said, I've been on the way to pick-up my MH for the past 25yrs and never made it there yet:)

Mines a 28ft with tandum axles and it's done everything I've ever asked from it. I bought a MH in Colorado and got 8 extra wheel and tires and just now having to look for new ones. The only time I poped off a tire was I ran off the pavement while pulling in Colorado and even with 4 axles you could feel the 3rd axle tire flat. So no they don't just pop off the rim as thats the only one in 25yrs.

For $1400 you can buy new 10,000lb electric brake axles, springs, tire & wheels included, from southwestwheel.com
If I was building a new one and didn't have MH axles and had to buy them, I would probally go with the new Dexter axles with 16" so I could run 235R85/16E for more load 3450lbs. 8:00x 14.5 MH tires are good for 2550lbs or there abouts.

Also some of the new MH axles are made as a throw away axle. You can't change bearings.

I personally would make it a 24ft or longer tho.

T_Bone