Latest 915A1 Unusual features

[reb87]

Anybody else seen tires like this?

 

[WillWagner]

Yes. Those are found on super 10 dump trucks alot. Not as big as a super single but is large enough to reduce the wt of the truck and still handle the load. Me thinks Michelin makes them.

 

[EMD567]

Looks like to me that somebody needed 4 tires. Those tires are not the "superwides" that replace the normal duals on a rear axle.

 

[Nonotagain]

Anybody else seen tires like this?

If you are refering to the singled out wheels mounted to the outside, yes plenty of times.

Some variants he M915 I've seen listed on the data plate that the truck was equiped with 12.00X24" tires even though the truck was riding on 11.00X22.5 tubeless tires.

If you picked up the truck like that, chances are someone got you for four tires and wheels. Very nice of them if the GL pics show all 8 tires.

 

[mslogr]

they look like 385/65r/22.5's. what size are they

 

[reb87]

I was just horsing around with my post, I bought the trailer pictured behind the truck in SD and pulled the singles off of it to put on the m915a1 I just got in Topeka. They are rated 9570lbs as singles and a little taller than the 11r22.5 tires the truck came with so I can go a little faster. Singles work better off road.

 

[bulldog_mack13]

Man id love to have the trailer, I can think of about 20 uses off the top of my head.

 

[mslogr]

I thought thep looked like 385's. We run 425 and 445 size on on log trailers

 

[reb87]

They are 385/65R22.5 michelin xzy tires. They came off of my M989 trailer which is a very cool ammo trailer with air ride and 22000lb payload capacity.

 

[cundupa]

You have too much free time!

 

[eldgenb]

what is your honest review of that trailer? some say you can't back it up and they hate it. Since I am making the 920 a pickup this would be the ticket for surplus tire runs and a bunch of stuff.

 

[reb87]

It is impossible to back unless you lock the tongue. There is a pin for locking. There are some air activated locking pins on commercial trailers that would be nice to actuate from the cab.

 

[laserlee123]

Hi,

Hey great Idea on the tire swap , I bought a ]M989A1, 11 ton, Hemat Trailer in SD, like new, and just bought a m915a with four of the duelies missing, I think I will short the trailer for the good of singles on the truck. By the way, does any one think this M915a1 is refurbished, it's an '84?

 

[deuceman51]

Probably was rebuilt around 2003 like the rest of the fleet at the TX RSMS shop. They basically rebuilt most of the truck and dynoed the engine. If it passed they reused it, if not, it was replaced.