Chart at Innovative Balancing (Dyna Beads) for amounts.

Passenger
http://www.innovativebalancing.com/chart.htm

Aggressive tires
http://www.innovativebalancing.com/BigTirechart.htm

These are starting points and may need adjusting. I use heavy Airsoft BBs because they are cheaper and won't clog valve stems. I have used steel BBs too.

 

Very neat. I know a few people that used water and antifreeze for the same reason. i used to balance my tires religiously when I had access to a balancer. But now that I don't I think it's been about 4 years since I've had a balanced tire, except for the new ones.

 

Yeah it sucks not having an aligner and tire equipment at my disposal any longer.

I used to religiously balance my tires and check alignment on all of our vehicles.

The beads do work, the extent to which they work enough depends on a lot of factors.

 

hey liners...

 

I am apparently on an electronics kick this month...I think I have finished the design of the circuit board for my extra lighting in my car, and now I'm trying to work out a way to moung a couple radio chargers in the switch panel lol

 

Well, not so happy with the beads. They seem to work well at highway speed (butter smooth), but I get some crazy wobbles that come and go under 50 or so. No rhyme or reason to it. It might be perfect at 40mph and the next time at that speed it feels like a possum is hanging on my valve stem. It seems to be worse around corners. I have tried rotating the tires, every air pressure possible and adding more beads. Still there but has changed a little sometimes when I tried something. After more reading, I guess this combo is just one of the ones that beads do not work on. From what I have read now, the MTRs in particular seem to be resistant to beads and water balance methods.

I have made up my mind to just bite the bullet and allow my tire folks to put clip on weights on the outside of my wheels. Dynamic balance is the best balance and inside weight on such a big ole tire is not gonna cut it. These have almost 5" of wheel past the center and are going to have to have some balance out there it seems. I guess once I verify that the balance issues are gone, I can take a tiny brush and paint the weights the same color as the wheel....

This is my second time trying this, the first was on my '05 Rubicon on 35s, I had mixed results then too and took them back out after about a month. Crazy since so many folks say they work perfect for them on even big old SSRs and IROKs.

 

Off to the tire store as soon as my defroster works it's magic.

Hopefully will get the new Bronco tank cleaned out today. Debating about new fuel pumps.....

 

My thoughts are that the balancing beads are really meant for over the road trucks. They need those higher revolutions to place, and hold the beads in the lighter weight area of the tire and wheel. For city driving, or lower revolutions their going to be all over the inside of the tires throwing them way out of balance.
You can't beat a good ol' lead weight.

 

what are these balancing beads yall are talking about?? they going inside the tire itself??

 

The tires you have are radial correct? Or are they the Bias ply?

 

Radials

Went in to have them balanced, after seeing the tires on the balancer, all I have to say is "wow".
It does not shake bad, as a matter of fact they ride better than my old 285s even with the tremble. But, I want it better.

Two are pretty out of round. My tire store does tire truing and I have an appt. to get them trued and balanced Monday. They have a big sign up in the shop that says "Tires Are Not Round" LOL

The owner talked with me a while about truing, I had it done to the front tires on my Snap-on van about a year ago and it went from bad to perfect. The owner says a trued tire will last longer than an un-trued tire. He says a tire is only as good as it's lowest point, and truing only takes rubber off til the lowest point.

Anyway, at this point I am too deep into these to give up so Monday we will get them cut and balanced. He says he has trued thousands of big off road tires over the years and never had any that didn't balance and ride great. Been there for 50 years, so I believe him.

 

Yeah, truing is definitely a worthy thing for those tires. Military tires are meant to be slapped on and used, not to ride well. lol

 

I will take a little video for the guys who may have never seen it done. It is a pretty cool process.

 

That would be awesome! I know of the process and understand what it does, but I have never seen it done. Thanks man!

 

Which route did you have when you ran the Snap-On business. Was it anywhere in Raleigh, also, Do you know anyone still in the business that could help with getting some exchanges or replacements done with some of my 'well-used' Snap-On tools?

Good luck with the Tire truing.