Education- Beadlocks

Futbalfantic

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I know the basic princple of the beadlock. But I have never seen one in person. Is there a bead lock on both sides of the wheel or just the outside. If just on the outside what keeps the inside from de-beading?
 
Most beadlocks are just for the outer bead. There are companies that make double locks, but they are overkill for most.
The outer bead is usually the one getting stuffed into rocks and is on the low side of a bad side hill.
 
If you look at a wheel, we'll say a 15 inch wheel. The inside of the wheel, the bead area, is wide, like 3 inches give or take. The outside however is not wide at all. So some leverage of side hill along with low pressure, you pop a bead. I have seen a few do it on the inside, but not often at all.
Let me know if I can help. We make weld on bead locks
 
Take a look at the Staun beadlocks if you are serious about beadlocks. They are a double beadlock but are pneumatic. They typically cost about the same as a traditional single beadlock but you don't have torque down eleventybillion bolts. Andy at CRS has them for a great price.
 
Joel said:
Take a look at the Staun beadlocks if you are serious about beadlocks. They are a double beadlock but are pneumatic. They typically cost about the same as a traditional single beadlock but you don't have torque down eleventybillion bolts. Andy at CRS has them for a great price.
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how do your tires balance after putting those on your rig? Running air-soft pellets, or water, or what? I want some beadlocks but I don't want my tires to ride like doodoo.
 
Elliott said:
how do your tires balance after putting those on your rig? Running air-soft pellets, or water, or what? I want some beadlocks but I don't want my tires to ride like doodoo.
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Traditional balancing and they are fine. I am thinking about going to centramatics but that is more because of the tire I am running than the beadlocks. Take a look at them on Saturday.

Oh yeah. You don't want to drink beer and weld on the wheels after they have been installed. Bad combination. Not that I would know that or anything.
 
Elliott said:
how do your tires balance after putting those on your rig? Running air-soft pellets, or water, or what? I want some beadlocks but I don't want my tires to ride like doodoo.
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Not sure about how stauns would affect the setup but I never balance tires. Personally to me it's a waste when I've got unbalanced 35s that ride no different than the last set I had balanced. On my 6th set of unbalanced tires w/ no issues. :driver:
 
Elliott said:
how do your tires balance after putting those on your rig? Running air-soft pellets, or water, or what? I want some beadlocks but I don't want my tires to ride like doodoo.
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it's really hard to balance them, because you have to account for the extra 40 pounds of air in each one..:Rockon:

actually, the only difference when I did mine, was we went with the stick-on weights, cause with the welded in rock ring, you couldn't clip weights on the outside...

although you can still put them on the inside, I figured there was less of a chance of knocking the ones off from inside the rim...

it took some effort, but three of my four balanced out to 0.0, and the fourth got to 0.5 (everytime we added weight it got worse)...here's the worst of the bunch, as 17oz:

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Greg
 
balancing is doo doo. everytime you wheel it loses rubber in chunks and wears unevenly from dryburning.

I don't get it for a trailrig. that's my .02
 
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