Skool me on (foam) Tire inserts..........

[badmix]

What PSI do they hold? Are they worth the efforts and trouble? Are they true "run flats". etc etc etc.

My truck is 80% Street / 20% dirt.

Mainly looking for some extra insurance incase I pop a tire and need to keep moving.

 

[nvrenuf]

Foam?

Got a link?

 

[badmix]

I dont have a link but thought I had seen some hard foam inserts or rubber inserts, something to that effect. I just tried google and not getting anywhere, just the street car plastic run flat stuff.

 

[miniwally]

Are you thinking of tire balls? Shannon Campbell has been running them for a few years racing, no one else has been able to get their hands on any tire balls. Last I heard the company won't even talk about them to the average joe.

There is also a foam for filling tires but it's a heavy equipment thing not a street vehicle thing.

 

[gotblazers]

As someone who works installs tires on cars for a living i have no idea what your talking about. I've seen lots of run flats but never in a truck tire as that would be against their concept.

 

[diesel4me]

Many moons ago they used to sell tubeless tire "liners",that looked a lot like old fashioned knobby tread tires ,kind of like a thick inner tube that had hundreds of round indentations on the outside that resembled a tread,that could be inserted in tubeless tires that had been punctured ....this may be what your thinking of?...I recall my older brother finding some in the dumpster at the corner gas station when I was a kid,he mounted them on spare rims and put them in the rear of his VW Beetle,and proceeded to smoke them off it,it was wicked fun,the thing would light them up like a top fuel dragster in first,second and third gear,and did awesome dougnuts!...they lasted about 20 minutes before one popped--just as the cops were coming!!-- ,he had done several dougnuts in a schools parking lot up the road from our house and a janitor called the cops on him...BUSTED!.....

 

[badmix]

Found what I was looking for. They are INNER BEADLOCKS>

http://4wheelonline.com/jeep/Staun_Inner_Beadlocks.133241

 

[miniwally]

Found what I was looking for. They are INNER BEADLOCKS>

http://4wheelonline.com/jeep/Staun_Inner_Beadlocks.133241

Those are more catered towards being a bead lock than a run flat. They will work as a run flat for a short distance but that is a side effect of their true purpose of being a bead lock device.

 

[4X4HIGH]

Found what I was looking for. They are INNER BEADLOCKS>

http://4wheelonline.com/jeep/Staun_Inner_Beadlocks.133241

Greg72 had a set of those (or at least he did). People used to use those in race cars years ago.

 

[nvrenuf]

It's very hard to find current info on Staun bead locks lately. I have no idea but it's like they either quit making them or the company closed or...?

"Inner Air Lock" is a readily available supplier of inner tube type beadlocks - http://innerairlock.com/