Homebrew beadlocks

[criket]

Anyone ever done this? Anyone have these on thier rig?

Buddy at work said he used to have homemade beadlocks on his CJ. He drilled holes along the outer ring of his wheel. He then put the tire on and when he ran the srews through the hole, they would grab the tire, o through the inner ring of the rubber and bam, he had homemade beadlocks. He also ran slime in it to prevent any leaks.

I was wondering, is this for real? Thanks.

 

[Stuntman Autoworks]

Yeah alot of drag racers have done this as well with slicks to keep the rim from spinning inside the tire on hard launches. I've never done it for rockcrawling but guess it could work for awhile but I can't help but think that a rock could push the bead off the screws kinda like stripping the hole in a wood stud, then it wont hold anymore. Like I said I don't know aint never tried it for that.

 

[Jody Treadway]

Sideloads> tires screws

Offroaders need beadlocks to keep from rolling the bead off the wheel. I'm a dragracer and offroader. My 10 second Fox body has screws. If I took it up Lower Damnation, it would have beadlocks.

 

[hadfield4wd]

Gubni has done this with very good success on his buggy.

 

[Roughshod]

HD78Bronco used to run screrws in his 42" TSL's IIRC. I did see one get squeezed off the bead one day, but that was in a pretty unusual situation. For the most part I think it worked pretty well.

 

[RiverRat88]

I saw a thread on pirate about this where he ran the screws behind the bead to stop the sideload from pushing the tire in, from the replies I saw it seemed to be effective.