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[Doctor Gollum]

Iveco 12E18 rear spring damping blocks...

Are these Donald

[Nick W]

No.
They're still in place for a start; you can see what shape they're supposed to be; there are no chunks missing.

[Doctor Gollum]

Inspite of the relative misalignment of the lower spring

[biggriffin]

There fine, as nickw says, no splits, still intact, the springs could do with a good covering of waste oil(brush,or spray)

[Nick W]

Inspite of the relative misalignment of the lower spring

It's a truck leaf spring, not a space-ship!

[Doctor Gollum]

Not my truck, so don't actually care if the back axle falls off or not

But it might have explained why the osr inner tyre was bald on the inner 50%

[Nick W]

Not my truck, so don't actually care if the back axle falls off or not

But it might have explained why the osr inner tyre was bald on the inner 50%

I bet the tyre fitter was the last person to check the pressure.

[Doctor Gollum]

Not my truck, so don't actually care if the back axle falls off or not

But it might have explained why the osr inner tyre was bald on the inner 50%

I bet the tyre fitter was the last person to check the pressure.

They don't bother... All the arches are clearly labelled 100psi, yet even newly fitted ones have never been over 85psi when I check them

It's caused a few arguments, but I got a blocking for my vehicle checks... So now I note every single thing. On principal. Seems to have highlighted just how many people aren't checking anything

[Lazydocker]

As above... they're actually pretty good

[Doctor Gollum]

Fair dos. Mind you, 32K at 30 km/h is hardly stressful but the tend to be doing either 0 or 30 with nowt in between

[biggriffin]

Not my truck, so don't actually care if the back axle falls off or not

But it might have explained why the osr inner tyre was bald on the inner 50%

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Truck tires wear excessively on the edge due to the camber change, and scrub when manovering,  common on all trucks. When turning left or right the amount of positive and negative, increases on each side, due to kingpin angles.
Your looking for a fault when there isn't one.

[Doctor Gollum]

King pin angles on a drive axle

[biggriffin]

King pin angles on a drive axle

My mistake.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I took a Merc 1820 into an alignment place in Cape Town years ago.  The truck had recently been imported from the UK and was chewing front tyres at an alarming rate! 

The reason they said was that the roads in South Africa have a different camber profile to the UK. The solution? They bent the front axle with a hydraulic press! 

Solved the problem though!  .

[Nick W]

I took a Merc 1820 into an alignment place in Cape Town years ago.  The truck had recently been imported from the UK and was chewing front tyres at an alarming rate! 

The reason they said was that the roads in South Africa have a different camber profile to the UK. The solution? They bent the front axle with a hydraulic press! 

Solved the problem though!  .

How else would you do it?