coastie124
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Alright, I'm won over to the darkside of tire balancing.
To quote Garth from Wayne's World
To quote Garth from Wayne's World
Airsoft BBs didn't work
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Timber said:
I use a tire plier like this:
Look on eBay instead of buying the 4x4 models that are sold to guys like us. I noticed that you could get one on eBay for about $30 versus paying upward of $200 from a 4x4 shop or mail order.
Here's a good link on how they work:
http://www.bc4x4.com/pr/2000/pliers/pliers.cfm
And the learning curve is such that once you have a rhythm you can bang them out in a minute. I did AirSofts in mine, with a bead cleaning on all four wheels in about 60 minutes.
Did this to a friends jeep a few weeks back and it worked awsome. He had ripped some wieghts off and had a nasty highway vibration. We pulled all the wieghts and added 1000 of the smaller airsoft bbs to each of his 33x12.50 Baja Claws. Worked awsome.
They sell a a container with 1000 bbs in it, he bought that to use as measuring and then bought a jug of 4 or 5 thousand.
The harbor frieght tire mounter was also on sale that week for $29 worked awsome as well. Ended up with less money in the tire machine and the bbs then he would have spent having all four balanced at a tire shop.
They sell a a container with 1000 bbs in it, he bought that to use as measuring and then bought a jug of 4 or 5 thousand.
The harbor frieght tire mounter was also on sale that week for $29 worked awsome as well. Ended up with less money in the tire machine and the bbs then he would have spent having all four balanced at a tire shop.
Starscream
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They were in for less than a year - about 9 months IIRC. I'm willing to say that it was (well, I'm hoping it was) the type that I used. Once I throw a weight off of these, I'll give them another shot.John90XJ said:
ColoradoJeepXJ
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Well, BB's sound like something I should try. It also sounds like more fun than getting shot with them. My kids will freak when they find out what I did with all their ammo.
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I would spend a little extra money, I am actually an airsoft player, and the bbs come in all sorts of different weights from .12g up to .88g. I would pony up the extra 4 bucks and get a higher grade of bbs of ebay or some other online retailer, that way, you are assured that each bbs is the same weight and they are a better quality plastic that is much smoother and more resilient to wear. Also, the heavier you to the more dense the plastic is going to, obviously, but they will also be harder plastic. And because they are a more consistent weight when buying the high grade stuff you can weigh them out by simply counting how many you are using.
philip_g
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I might have to try it too.coastie124 said:
Starscream
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Mine were also green. They too came out green, just in dust form.John90XJ said:
IntrepidXJ
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Timber said:
harbor freight tire changer.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=34542
$30 (on sale) well spent
it has to be mounted to the floor to work well, though
no more wrestling with tire spoons
banderso
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I am a little confused as to why everyone is saying that the problem is too much mass per tire. My understanding is that using too many BBs is not a problem. I read this article http://4x4trailhunters.com/article.php?id=18, and it says
The thing that occured to me when I read this post was that maybe each individual BB was too heavy, the same reason golf balls don't work so well. But I don't know what weight BBs people typically use so I could be way off.
Starscream
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I've never lost a bead, never had mud inside of them. 32x11.50 BFG muds on 15x8 street locks.John90XJ said:
scorpio_vette
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banderso said:
you are correct to a certain extend. i usually put a little extra in mine to compensate for additional problems such as bent wheels, chunked tires etc.. but i only go over by like 1 or 2 oz. remember there is such a thing as "to much of a good thing".
Starscream said:
Weird. My experience has been with BFG MTs in the 33" flavor and same conditions, no complete bead breaks, some crud getting in when they're aired down a lot but nothing serious. Mine have been mounted on d-hole steel wheels the whole time and they looked fine.
selarep
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Golf balls are WAY to big to find the "low" spots on a tire, and they sound like ass, Also because of their weight and size, they will chip away at your rims finnish and may lead to rust. Also they'll melt and just be big globs of crap inside your rim.
When you break the bead with your hi-lift, you're gonna want to place the highlifts foot at the seat of the bead and the fork part is gonna be under your rear/front bumper, make sure you take out the valve stem or else it wont work as well because that valve stem is gonna fight with holding the air in the tire (one way valve) you while trying to pop the bead. With the valve stem out, it'll pop the bead off really fast.
Now all you gotta do is push the tire down a little and let them bad boys go to work!
Here's more on how to do it but I think this guy used way to many BB's, But then again I don't know how big his tires are because he never said so.
http://72.18.199.92/~fullsize/forum/showthread.php?t=43333
When you break the bead with your hi-lift, you're gonna want to place the highlifts foot at the seat of the bead and the fork part is gonna be under your rear/front bumper, make sure you take out the valve stem or else it wont work as well because that valve stem is gonna fight with holding the air in the tire (one way valve) you while trying to pop the bead. With the valve stem out, it'll pop the bead off really fast.
Now all you gotta do is push the tire down a little and let them bad boys go to work!
Here's more on how to do it but I think this guy used way to many BB's, But then again I don't know how big his tires are because he never said so.
http://72.18.199.92/~fullsize/forum/showthread.php?t=43333
IntrepidXJ
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selarep said:
i have the same container of 10,000 .12g BB's that this guy used. I need 8oz for each of my 32x11.5 tires. i used a kitchen scale to measure them out, and I ended up using the whole container....so about 2500 BB's each tires....and that equalled out to 8oz each for me........so I don;t think he used too many, since his tires look bigger than 32's....maybe he even used too little
Bored400
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I'm all over the DIY stuff, but why would'nt a guy just mark his tire where the wheel weight goes, pull it off to trail ride and then pop it back into position when he wanted to get back on the highway? I mean sure, it's one less step a guy has to take, but it seems like a big gamble when you are talking about high dollar tires with a bunch of balls rolling around inside of em. No matter how you slice it, you are gonna get wear on the inside of your tires with those bb's! My dad has been a tire man for his whole life, and when I read this thread to him he laughed like a banshee!
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