Seeing some unusual wear patterns on this steer tire

Also recently started getting a little bit of a steering wheel shudder in the 50-55 mph range, but it's funny because it comes and goes. Sometimes it's dead smooth and other times there it is. Just started doing that about week ago. I'd noticed the wear pattern developing on that inside shoulder of the passenger steer awhile back and didn't think much of it because the front end ran smooth. Lug nuts are tight...I've got check points on them and none of them have moved. Front wheels were both replaced last summer. Steer tires and king pins were I believe done at the same time in summer of 2024 and the kingpins just checked out okay. Driver's side tire looks pretty clean by comparison. There's a little bit of wear on the outside shoulder but mostly on the inside. Wheel bearings getting a little too loose maybe?

 

Alignment’s not a bad idea. Probably been too long on that. (What IS a good mileage interval on that? 6 months/60k miles?)

Those steering tie rod ends ever become suspect enough to replace? I know shops are notoriously lazy about missing the grease fittings on them when they do the front end, so that’s one component I hadn’t considered yet.

Generally speaking these newer steer hubs don’t require old school wheel bearing adjustments right? But you can verify the nuts are torqued properly if you remove the oiler caps off right? That might be worth checking also without getting too deep into it?

 

I also forgot to mention I test drove it bobtail yesterday and could still feel a little something so it’s definitely a front end issue. I’ve had poorly maintained trailers cause symptoms like this before that went away when switching trailers or running without one.

These oddball trailers also require the 5th wheel to be ran all the way at the back of the frame so that probably doesn’t help. I scaled a load once and only had 9600 lbs on the steer axle.

 

Okay. Tires both have 110 in them