Originally Posted by 32krazy!
cmon now doc cut me some slack! i looked for 2 weeks to find some company that could do the cycle on a machine, none to be found.
40 lbs for the street to stretch the rubber sidewalls, higher than norm speeds to build heat in the tires and my figure 8's were done in 1st gear at bless than 10 mph with nobody around. my temp gage is a small pocket unit.
how else would you cycle the tires ? everything i have read says if not heat cycled the lifespan of the tires could be cut in half and as expensive as they are i want all the life i can get
You know I was kidding....but just imagining you doing all that with a patrol car nearby watching would be priceless....I always heard about doing that, but in the old days, you cycled them at the track...
One of my many jobs when I first got out of school, I worked a short time for Firestone, operating a "banbury", a machine that mixed the rubber compound...it was science, it was like backing a cake, each tire is always going to be a little different, especially if "Fast" Eddie didn't measure something right.....