jeff gordon - 12/23/2021 17:26

Sometimes after an hour of getting home, I'll go out, start rig, air it up and move it around a bit and then set brakes, Drives only.


I was stuck on perfectly flat terrain last week. Coming home with hot tires and parked it on about 2 inch of ice. Tires melted down into their own dips. Tires weren't frozen down, just no traction when I went to leave in a few days. Colder would have been ideal. Was just above freezing.

Pour a small amount of washer fluid on warm tires it will prevent them from freezing down. It works great. I was stuck on a steep grade with an empty trailer waiting for a wreck to to cleaned up. Put washer fluid on my tractor tires and trailer tires as the tractor brakes would not hold it from sliding backwards. When the road cleared the truck next to me slid sideways due to his trailer tires freezing down. I took right off with no problem. Just a half pint or less on each tire keeps them from freezing down.
A bit of airline antifreeze in the drums keeps the pads from freezing to drums like a table spoon or so. Usually it is the bottom pad that freezes to the drum. Apply it to the trailer drums with the maxis off then when air bleeds off the drum will be dry even if it is precipitating overnight.
A codriver had a tire freeze down where I used to work. It was right where the cap was spliced and it broke about 2" of the end of the cap loose from the carcass.

Edited by Olddeeres4ever 12/23/2021 18:56