A Question About Bead Balancing

[banshee]

Dose anyone use them?

If so how do you like them. Any issues?

Do they clump together like several posts I,ve read?

Thanks

[mvusse]

As long as you don't get water or mud in your tires they don't clump. One of the nearby tire places used Equal beads in my Wintermark snow tires. I have used Airsoft BBs in a set of 35x12.50, 33x12.50 , 31x10.50 and a pile of P235/75R15s. Seems to work quite well, but the Airsoft BBs sound like a rainmaker when you come to a complete stop and the ones in the top of the tire bounce off the rim on the way down.

 

I'm running my current 37x12.50s unbalanced, but I can't use BBs in them because of the runflat lubricant (modified H1 wheels with the stock rubber runflats). Still need to find someone that can balance them with sticky weights after running them for closing up to a year now.

[wvzj]

I have used both Dynabeads and airsoft bb's for the last 6 years in all of my Jeeps and have had great results with both. Never had an issue with clumping like everyone talks about.

[lil_loco]

Seen motorcycles wipe out when the beads go wrong and after it's a hell of a mess to clean out. Almost as bad if not worse than green slime tire inflator. I actually turned away a 5000km set of 2013 mtz's because they had bead balancing and opted for a 20,000km set of duratracs that didn't instead..... solely because I'm frankly unsure of what damage they will cause on a lifted lightweight truck if they went wonky when they can easily cause a veteran rider to drop their heavyweight cruiser in otherwise perfect conditions.