Posted by Pops1532 on January 09, 2014 at 06:44:51 from (98.227.133.60):
In Reply to: regrooving tires posted by rusty6 on January 08, 2014 at 17:09:01:
37Chief said: (quoted from post at 01:09:01 01/09/14) I picked up a couple 235 85 16 Goodyear load range G tires a couple years ago at a swap meet. I have them on the front of my dodge 3500. On the tire it says they are regroovable. how is that done? Maybe they aren't for vehicles, but they are doing just fine. Stan
Use a grooving iron like in the link Jon posted. Like others have said, some truck and trailer tires can be regrooved. Back in my racing days we grooved our racing tires with the same type iron as shown in that link. I regrooved the tires on a truck I had back in the 80's and didn't have any problems. I wouldn't recommend anyone regroove tires that aren't designed to be regrooved.
Regrooving is just that. Cutting existing tread deeper with a grooving iron. Not the same as recapping/retreading.
This post was edited by Pops1532 at 06:46:52 01/09/14.
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