Balance Beads

[chickenbot]

Thoughts?

 

[RCP Phx]

As a last resort if you can't balance them any other way!

 

[dan1977p]

Semis use them with good results. I use them on my motorcycle and they easily increased my tire life by 50% and I don't need to pay someone to balance my wheels.

 

[chickenbot]

I'm just tired of putting 12-13oz of weight on one side so I thought I would give these a try.

 

[DutchVDub]

I've been using airsoft BB's for years in my Jeep tires to self balance. It works great.

 

[TRCM]

I used actual BBs in the tires on my ramcharger.

Steel rims, 39.5 swampers...worked great.......it was kinda weird tho when ya stopped at a light or similar and you had the window down, you could sometimes hear the BBs hitting the rim as you slowed down.

 

[Ralph77]

This topic comes up from time to time and I wonder about this myself. Anybody have any thoughts about using them in a DD with just more regular street type tires?

 

[chickenbot]

I'm putting new tires on the Jeep today and I'm going to try them out.

 

[Heavyopp]

I run them on my straight axle swap 95 suburban -- General grabber AT2 35-12.50-16

that thing will do 75 easily with not a hint of tire issues

 

[burntkat]

I used to use them. I graduated to Centramatic balancers and a static balance on a HF bubble balancer and never looked back.

 

[burntkat]

One thing to note- if you use active balancers inside the tire assembly, you absolutely CAN NOT ever use slime or any other tire sealant.

I used to use them, without any issues. They work great.

But I want to add tire sealant at some point, so got away from them.

I have mounted and balanced al lmy vehicles (cars, trucks, bikes) tires for 20 years. Static balance with an active balancer (centramatic) makes them smooth as silk.

 

[Heavyopp]

Ok -- Centramatic -- Had to look it up, certainly looks promising

Where are you buying them? -- Buy them to fit the rim or tire size, exactly how do you know which ones to use?

Just some details if you don't mind

 

[4x4JeePmaNthINg]

bbs or sand works, sounds cool. let us know how you like it once you pick an option!

 

[burntkat]

Buy them from the people that sell them.

Fit them as per the design. In other words to fit the lug pattern.

 

[Nimrod]

I've been using Airsoft pellets for several years and will never go back to lead weights. The pellets work great.

 

[SByota]

I've been using Airsoft pellets for several years and will never go back to lead wrights. The pellets work great.

Can you post the specifics of your set-up? Pellet brand/size, tire size and how many pellets per tire? Thanks in advance.

 

[Nimrod]

I'm running 33 12.5 15 tires. If I recall correctly (and I'm pretty sure I do) I put 8 ounces of pellets in each tire. I don't recall the pellet size, and I couldn't say how many pellets because I went by weight. Sorry.

If you search you can find charts on line that'll tell you by weight how much to use per tire for any tire size.

 

[burntkat]

If you put too much in, physics takes care of it. Don't sweat it. This is not a moon shot, don't over think it.

 

[TRCM]

When I did it, I took the actual lead weight amounts that were on each tire, and put 50% of that in the tire using BBs as they would be 2x as far out from the wheel center. I then added them and never looked back.

 

[Bent]

absolutely DO NOT ever use slime or any other tire sealant.

Fixed so that I can agree.