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How do you balance your 38inch + tires?

BizeeB65 said:
Someone help me out with the BB method. Do the bb's naturally end up on the spot of the tire that is causing it to be out of balance? Would this method help on some chunked 33" tsl's? No thread hijacking intended :thumb:
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It would be your best bet (BB's).

I have either 12 ounces or 16 ounces in mine...I forget. I weighed them on a little food scale in the house, made sure they were of equal weight, put them in zip lock bags, carried them to the garage, and dumped the contents of each bag.

The "regular BB's" rusting together has not been an issue for me...and I have no fear of it becoming a concern in the future either.

Also, I'm not claiming that 12 or 16 ounces is the perfect amount. That's what I tried to start with, and it has worked well.

Roy
 
uberbeans said:
Yeah, How do you do it? How does it work?
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Take wheel/tire off vehicle.
Use high-lift to de-bead one side of the tire.
Dump BB's into the tire.
Air the tire back up.
Install wheel/tire on vehicle.
Enjoy driving it with balanced tires.

Roy
 
How does it balance the wheel? How much weight to use? Why doesn't everyone (manufacturers/discount tire) balance their cars/ Trucks like this?
 
The big problem with steel BB's is that they can cut into the tire. A few people on this site have reported that steel BB's ground their inner tire to shreds. Soft Pellets are OK, but it takes a million of them to equal a few ounzes. I think Ceramic Beads are the best because they are not effected by water, they will not cut into a tire, and they are heavy enough that it does not take a million of them to equal an ounze.
 
uberbeans said:
How does it balance the wheel? How much weight to use? Why doesn't everyone (manufacturers/discount tire) balance their cars/ Trucks like this?
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It works sort of on chaos theory in that the heavy spot spins faster therefore causing the BBs to go to the not so heavy spot and equalizing or balancing the tire. Each BB I suppose is also rotating in some sort of plane creating some sort of Gyroscoping event. Not sure of the physics but my 37s are chunked to hell and they are balanced just fine with airsoft pellets.

As for how much to use it is kinda hit or miss. I used the chart on Dynabeads website in the previous post to determine the amount of weight for my tire size. Remember it is just a guideline and your tires might require more or less.

Why doesn't everyone do it? For people who dont offer lifetime balancing they would be loosing money. Plus with everyone being sue happy now-a-days I am sure most places are worried about liability as the tire manufacturers cannot garauntee that no inner tire damage would occur. I personnally do not see a plastic bead doing any kind of damage to a vulcanized rubber tire.

Just my .02

Ira
 
1-ton said:
The big problem with steel BB's is that they can cut into the tire. A few people on this site have reported that steel BB's ground their inner tire to shreds. Soft Pellets are OK, but it takes a million of them to equal a few ounzes. I think Ceramic Beads are the best because they are not effected by water, they will not cut into a tire, and they are heavy enough that it does not take a million of them to equal an ounze.
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It only takes about 142 HD or 237 regular air soft pellets to equal 1 oz. that is no where near 1,000,000:D . I did the calculations when I did mine here. Nukes with too much time on their hands:doah: .

Not trying to start a flame war or anyting I am just bored.:D

Ira
 
It only takes about 142 HD or 237 regular air soft pellets to equal 1 oz. that is no where near 1,000,000:D . I did the calculations when I did mine here. Nukes with too much time on their hands:doah:
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I was only being sarcastic. It would take about 430 High Density soft pellets to equal 15 ounces. That is several large handfulls of pellets. :wink1:
 
I am trying this out tomorrow on some chunked 33" tsl's. Will post report tomorrow night, or after I get a good drive in. I will be using Airsoft HD pellets, a kitchen scale, a tire machine & balancing machine at a shop. Oh, and my rims are 15x10 rockcrawlers.
 
How bad ya'lls tires bouncing? I haven't balanced a swamper in 10 years and I guess never had any issues. Lucky, numb, too dumb to know better, take your pick!
 
hey BizeeB, each person has their own preference on how to balance tires, but if you spin balance yours at a shop, you could always use sticky weights on the inside of the rim, which is what i did.

Brian
 
Well, I would but my buddy is the one who works there, so I would rather not use thier stuff, ya know?

Tire machine broke today when unmounting the rims, so it will be next weekend before tires are swapped.... Unless I can get the 1-tons I am looking at :D
 
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