John, "Isn't that the GAWR Front / GAWR Rear on the vehicle tire tag" Unfortunaltey no. Example .. 2WD GVWR & GAWR numbers. GVWR = 5169 GAWR Front = 2646 GAWR Rear = 2866 2646 + 2866 = 5512 As you can see the GAWR totals exceed the GVWR The intent of the GAWR was to establish the Maximum for any one axle. But both axle's in total were not to exceed 5169 lbs. http://www.roadhaus.com/tires/load.html "What about the Westy "lean" to the driver side?" Great question ... Don't know.
good road, good adventure, good life, larry chase www.roadhaus.com www.roadhaus.com/shops.html www.roadhaus.com/tires.html www.roadhaus.com/tires/guideline.html -----Original Message----- From: jet [mailto:temple@pobox.com] Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:50 PM To: roadguy@roadhaus.com; 'wetwesties@yahoogroups.'; 'Ev_Update@Yahoogroups. Com'; Syncro@yahoogroups.com; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com; vanagon@yahoogroups.com; 'Vw-Camping@Yahoogroups. Com'; vwcc@yahoogroups.com; VWVANFULLTIMERS@yahoogroups.com; 'Westfalia@yahoogroups. com'; syncrolist@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [vanagon] Actual Weight Distribution of loaded Vans
Isn't that the GAWR Front / GAWR Rear on the vehicle tire tag??????? (For static distribution specs) Ref your tire load rating webpage? Except maybe during acceleration, braking or cornering? What about the Westy "lean" to the driver side? Maybe I do not understand what you are asking? John Temple 85 Westy "No Fear"
-----Original Message----- From: vanagon@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vanagon@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Larry Chase Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 2:42 PM To: 'wetwesties@yahoogroups.'; 'Ev_Update@Yahoogroups. Com'; Syncro@yahoogroups.com; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com; vanagon@yahoogroups.com; 'Vw-Camping@Yahoogroups. Com'; vwcc@yahoogroups.com; VWVANFULLTIMERS@yahoogroups.com; 'Westfalia@yahoogroups. com'; syncrolist@yahoogroups.com Subject: [vanagon] Actual Weight Distribution of loaded Vans Volks, I've noticed something intersting in the Vanagon Weigh Data I've been collecting. http://www.roadhaus.com/tires/load.html If you look at the last column .. "Actual Weight Distribution Front/Rear" You will see that 67% of the weighs show more weight on the front axle than the rear. Does anyone know of a spec for weight distrubtion for a vanagon? This data would seem to indicated we might want to bias our front/back tire air pressures towards the front, if we feel our van is similary loaded. What say you?
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