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"They did try lowering the tire pressure to 36 front and 42 rear."
Scares me when I hear this. That was the whole problem with the why about 5 years ago Ford was having a lot of problems with tires blowing resulting with turn overs and a lot of fatalities. As I understand it Firestone had one PSI on their tire, and Ford had a lesser psi in the book and on the door frame. The only possible reason I can think of why Ford would do this is to get a smoother ride by running the tires low.
I just looked at a viper I am mounting and it says 50 PSI when cold. Your tire may have a different PSI from what I am putting on, but I would follow what the tire says.
What happens is if you run too far below what the tire is designed for it will not dissipate the heat, and the heat will build up causing the tire to separate, and make it a high risk for blow out.
This is the very reason I choose to do all of my work on everything I own. Takes a lot of time to do research, but at least I know I have done the best there is.
You might want to put it on the center stand and first spin the tire and check the wheel first to make sure it has not been bent, and if that checks out then do the same thing to the tire. Check the sidewall and the thread. There will be a little deviation, but if more than a quarter of an inch I would certainly pursue getting a new tire.
Tires come out of the factory all of the time where they are out of round. All tires are inspected, but by humans and everything a human does has a 3% error rate. No matter how hard the factories try to catch the bad tires, a small percent slip thru.
But I would highly recommend following what the tire says for PSI.
Just my 2 cents.