Home brew Tire Balancing with Air Soft BBs

[dragordie]

Balancing tires I have used in the tire world bags of equal. I have used bags of Equal in all my Semi and Trailer tires.

Today I ran acrossed this web site and the chip trick is using air soft bbs. If your going to do this don't get the biodegradable ones they won't hold up to the mosture that develops inside a tire. Here is the link. look up your tire size and it will show how many ounces to use.

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

 

 

[desbennett004]

I'm guessing this is only an advantage if you fit your own tires? My tire guy balances them when he fits them, so there really isn't any cost savings involved for me. Unless there is another reason behind doing it this way?

 

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[mattbuch96]

Balancing tires I have used in the tire world bags of equal. I have used bags of Equal in all my Semi and Trailer tires.

Today I ran acrossed this web site and the chip trick is using air soft bbs. If your going to do this don't get the biodegradable ones they won't hold up to the mosture that develops inside a tire. Here is the link. look up your tire size and it will show how many ounces to use.

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

 

 

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[Eagle]

I've heard of it but I don't know anyone who has done it.

 

Question: How do you know which BBs are biodegradable?

[mikekaz1]

I'm guessing this is only an advantage if you fit your own tires? My tire guy balances them when he fits them, so there really isn't any cost savings involved for me. Unless there is another reason behind doing it this way?

 

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I agree... I've never found a reason to ever need anything other then lead lip weights.

[Eagle]

 

I'm guessing this is only an advantage if you fit your own tires? My tire guy balances them when he fits them, so there really isn't any cost savings involved for me. Unless there is another reason behind doing it this way?

 

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I agree... I've never found a reason to ever need anything other then lead lip weights.

 

 

Conventional balancing is only as good as the guy running the machine. Uneven wear changes the balance. Losing a weight ruins the balance. Large, wide tires are very difficult to balance, and tend not to stay balanced. The advantage to the BBs is that it's a self-correcting, self regulating system.

[schardein]

I use dyna-beads on my CJ7 with 35" tires and beadlock rims.  They work.  

[64 Cheyenne]

I'm skeptical, I put 5oz ea in my 31 10 15 treadrights (TWs), ran like this for (think I had them on about 5yrs), tires suspension steering began to shake. All steering components appear serviceable, Took the truck to have the bbs removed to be replaced with conventional weights, what a joke, had nearly 4oz in one area of the tires.tires shaked even worse.

Moral of the story, regardless of what you use bbs or conventional, neither does any good if you don't rotate your tires, often, if they bigger meaty tires. seems lack of proper rotation caused wear in my tires that no amount of machine balance could fix. FWIW the TWs are going on a local use trail rig, and the 88 is getting a new set of TW 33s, (bought a few years ago when TW still sold 33)

[yellaheep]

I too was skeptical of the non-biodegradable Air Soft BBs as balance weight but got desperate when I was wanting to run my Truggy with 37's and steel beadlocked wheels.  My issue was that when airing down the tires for the hard core trails, the lead rim weights were usually left on the trail, or got moved (slid) from their original position.   I used 13 oz. in each tire based on a chart I'd found on the interwebz.  Worked amazingly.  At slow speeds (below 15-20 mph) I'd still get some out of round feel, but on city streets and even the highway, they were the answer.

 

I wouldn't think one would need to resort to using these for anything smaller than a 35" tire, and I've not heard of anyone doing so either.  

[schardein]

I too was skeptical of the non-biodegradable Air Soft BBs as balance weight but got desperate when I was wanting to run my Truggy with 37's and steel beadlocked wheels.  My issue was that when airing down the tires for the hard core trails, the lead rim weights were usually left on the trail, or got moved (slid) from their original position.   I used 13 oz. in each tire based on a chart I'd found on the interwebz.  Worked amazingly.  At slow speeds (below 15-20 mph) I'd still get some out of round feel, but on city streets and even the highway, they were the answer.

 

I wouldn't think one would need to resort to using these for anything smaller than a 35" tire, and I've not heard of anyone doing so either.  

Similar to my experience with dyna-beads.  As I pick up speed I can feel the vibrations go away.  No lead weights to fall off or move.  The solution for beadlock wheels.