front end alignment question

A question for the brains trust.

The bus,  72 Bedford NJM  (SB5) beem axle has started wearing out the drivers front tyre - inside edge.  It's worn a significant amount of the edge and into the next row of tread.

There  was a little bit of wheel bearing play and the bearing has since been replaced. However the tyre is still wearing.
The wear has occurred in the last 600 ks.
The only thing I can spot is that the driver side body is about 1/2 inch lower. (ie a little spring sag)  Previously, the tyres have traveled 30,000ks with no wear.

From a visual perspective, everthing looks ok.  And I'm a bit puzzled.  Track straight.

Any ideas?    I'm wondering what are the symptoms of a 'failed' king pin and whether the king pin is stuffed.

thanks jd
 

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cya

King pin or bent axle would be my guess. Bent axle vertical no big problem a bloke came to my shed with a big Ute full of stuff and fixed it, bent horizontal no bloody idea probably the same although that bloke would be 100 years old now.
Like the bloke who came to my shed and fixed all the bottle jacks he would be 115 he was pretty old 35 years ago and that was all them years ago when there were blokes around that could fix stuff.

As the fellows above have already said, toe, bearings, king pins or the least likely (hopefully) bent axle.
Also bear in mind, once a wear pattern has started, it's all but impossible to prevent further uneven wear. 

I am not a mechanic but over lunch today, I happened to be reading a VACC (Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce) newsletter from 1978 and came across an article about tyre wear.  It said the same as the previous writer said (it is a pain that we can no longer see the previous comment) Once a wear pattern has started it is almost impossible to correct it, even when you have corrected the fault that caused it.

Thanks,

I'll going to have to find a flat empty car park and start doing some measurements.

The tyre's b$ggered.  Probably taken most of the inside edge off.   Michellin XZY too.

Another thing you need to keep in mind is the right hand spring pack was often set lower in the 70's and 80's to compensate for the large camber in the country roads, it made keeping it in line on the road a lot easier when most of the rural road had big cambers, not that it would make any difference to you Tyre wear but would be the reason for the right side being lower partially if it was a country school bus, things that were quite normal 40 years ago seem quite odd now on our pretty much wide flat roads were your Tyre is a meter of the edge.

Thanks,   the spring packs were replaced about 2+ years ago.
I was aware of the camber allowance.

I can't quite get my head around this logic;   however,....

being a beam axle with king pins;  if the beam is straight and the king pins are good,   then,   (and assuming a flat surface)  isn't  the wheel camber controlled by the king pin angle?

And, the spring height and body position is irrelevant?  ie, the body height or angle has no mechanical bearing on the wheel camber.

Have I got that right?

There is supposed to be no discernible camber or castor movement in the kingpins, any camber adjustment is made by controlled bending of the axle, whilst castor is adjusted with wedges between the axle and spring.

I agree with both posts, the setting of the spring packs for road camber firstly felt better on the road and probably steered better but nothing else other than stopping the steering pull to the low side maybe, with power steering we forget the 100 tricks to get the mongrels to feel like they were good to drive.