Bead Balancing Tires

MichaelT

MichaelT

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I am gonna be getting a set of boggers mounted up tomorrow and I think I'm gonna bead balancing them. I have heard of using BBs or golf balls but am leaning twoards the BBs. Should I use the copper ones or airsoft? If I go with airsoft I am gonna put in the tactical ones cause they weigh .08g more each. I looked at the dynabead chart and it said to run 8oz but that is with some expensive metal beads they sell. How much weight should I put in each tire or does that 8oz sound about right? The tires are 33x12.5x15 boggers. Thanks -Mike
 
Im still experimenting with the weights but 8 oz is what i have in my 36's. I would use airsoft. copper will corrode.
 
I would put about 10oz of airsoft bb's in each tire. I put 12oz in each tire with 35's and it worked good.:beer:
 
A bud used to 2 tall shot glasses full of BBs in each of his 38.5" SXs. He was running AL rims, so there was some minor "peening" going on, but nothing alarming.

OTOH, the wild "maraca" sounds when coming to a stop always drew attention!
 
ive used, Airsoft, regularBBs, and copper BBs...and now run water antifreeze....by far the slickest solution Ive seen.....
 
The chart in post 2 is the one I looked at that reccomended 8oz. I'll go with prolly about 10oz or so of the heavy airsoft BBs and see how that does. I appreciate the input
 
I have a gallon split between 4 tires not real exact....
Once warm and round I can run 65 with zero vibration....
 
in larger turck tires, from what ive heard, a balance bead bag is put in and works off of static electricity to find uneven spot. again this is what I heard from a guy who has replace large truck tires for the last 4 years.

how it works
 
water works by centrifical force (probably spelled wrong) and is distrbuted to the lowest point at speeds...it does add a unique slosh factor when stopping if you add say 1 gallon to each tire....
 
What, you don't want a tire that looks like this?

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I had a local shop mount my 33s, didn't really think about the whoel balancing/weight thing when I dropped them off.
I almost peed myself laughing when I picked that up, well used tire but brand new rim, guy was like "It took forever to get that thing balanced, if I didn't know better I'd have thought the rim was bent." At least he put in some work for the $15/tire it cost me, lol.
Not sure why he'd think those would do anything against 60 lbs of mass
 
Well I got them mounted up with 10oz of airsoft bbs in each. We put one of them on the wheel backwards so it was a major pita to get all of the bbs back out without spilling them all over the shop floor. I took it up to about 60mph on the ride home and they rode pretty well considering the tread pattern. Then I took them out to test them and ended up breaking my trac bar so I'll get that fixed tomorrow and give them an interstate test. Thanks for the help guys.
 
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