How long had those tires been on the car? How often did you look at them, or need to check the pressures? IE, how often where you close enough to the tire that you may have been able to casually observe the tread wear? Are you unobservant? (serious question, I sometimes get that way when I'm dealing with something else)

If the tires have been on for a long time, and you never had to mess with them, and you use them for aggressive driving on the street or gravel/grass/dirt, whatever, that would explain it. The tires would be "higher" mileage, and driven harder then they're designed for (this is the rally truck, with truck tires, right?) By driving hard on them, everytime you corner, all the weight transfers to the outside of the vehicle, and that could explain the increased wear on the outsides. The insides don't look to hot, either.

That's kind of my vote, I think. Unless massive toe in from bending something, and then having to counter with the steering wheel to go straight again. That may rub the outside edge more.

What do the rear tires look like?

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I'm trying to tell if this is a joke or not.

Tires are howling like taking a corner too hard. Then somehow all the tread is gone with a wear pattern that looks like massive toe-in. Hmm.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

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> I'm trying to tell if this is a joke or not.
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> Tires are howling like taking a corner too hard.
> Then somehow all the tread is gone with a wear
> pattern that looks like massive toe-in. Hmm.
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> Pete Remner
> Cleveland, Ohio
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> 1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
> 1978
> Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

no joke. i knew i was asking one of those numb nut questions. i'm sure i'll have a lot of them in time.

thanks for the alignment tips all

Hey Jason when I had the truck i did a "rally" alignment as I like to call it. really on the truck toe is about the main thing you can do. i set it to 1/4" toe in, using the zimmer tape measure method.

the truck does have some extra camber in it. there are plates, like old chevys, that can be added or removed to change your camber. there was some extra camber put in there, but it was there when i got it so i left it. it also made for better turn in bite.

trucks are bullet proof, not invincible, did you smack any major ruts or something to maybe bend a tie rod. is everything tight under there, tie rods, jam nuts, ect.... it's good rally practice to touch almost every bolt/nut before and after an event. that way in your mind you know everything is tight.

did you do any work to the front end at all. i know different year MM had different tie rods and drag link bars. like that spare stuff i gave you would have to be swapped in fully because things are different between the 2.

some times just laying on the ground looking at stuff will show you what's wrong.

it's a simple steering set up, there are only so many things that can go wrong. i would put my guess on the toe. when i first got the truck i had really bad toe in and started to tare up a set of tires,

also check your wheels bearings.

but, welcome to world of rally, where shit breaks and you got no idea why.

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