High Speed Tires

[smithn00]

I have a Northern Tools 4×8 aluminum trailer.  The tires that came with the trailer are rated for only 45 mph.  My belief is that nobody goes that slow.

Has anyone had problems going  Interstate speeds with these or similar tires.?

[western_flyer]

Check E-Trailer out for higher speed 8″ tires.

https://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Tires_and_Wheels-sf-Tire_Only-pc-8_Inch.aspx

[RCRICH]

Is the tire the only issue or is it the hub and bearings that cant take the high speed.  I need to get a trailer soon and the trailex is alot of money.

[faithie999]

I also have the NT aluminum trailer, which in my case came with 12″ wheels.  I didn’t want to be one of the dead trailers at the side of the road with burned-out bearings, so I bought a set of what NT calls “high-speed” hubs, and got a pair of 15″ wheels/tires.  I had already planned to get a pair of fenders that would accommodate the larger tires, but when I tried to mount the 15’s I found that the tires rubbed the frame of the trailer (no good deed goes unpunished).  so I bought a pair of 1 1/4″ spacers which bolted to the hubs, and in turn mounted the wheels onto the spacers.

[smithn00]

I asked NT what the speed rating of the High Speed Hub was.  They replied that hubs were not rated, only tires were rated for speed.  I asked back “Then why are they called High Speed Hubs.”  They have not replied to that yet.

[Cabreraw]

Did they ever reply?

[wayne3676]

I put on the high speed hubs and ran them at 70 mph. changed the tires to radial

[tal]

I traveled from Arkansas to Michigan. Hubs became hot and had to slow to 60. NT trailer. Had a local shop replace the axle for a heavier one, etires 80 mph tires and had new fenders built. Problem solved.

[Carl K]

I’ve always been told to clean and repack the bearings with good high temperature wheel bearing grease.. The grease that’s in there when you buy the trailer is not high temperature grease.

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