wheel balancing

[yotacool]

is the easiest way to balance my 35in tires to just do stick on weights and put a lot on? or is there an easier way?
the maching said to put 240gm on, just a little to high to compute for me.

[KToy]

TIRE BALANCE WUTS THAT?

i didnt balance my tires but they are 37's

i dont balance tires that are bigger than 33's

[mx924]

when i did mine, i just put on as much as i thought i could, and no 240g is not uncommon. even if you don't get it perfect you will be very surprised at how much better your truck feels.

[NavyDood]

I took mine into Discount tire knowing that they would be able to handle it.

35" X-terrains on Eagle 589's.

Tire 1 took 9 oz / 255 grams
Tire 2 took 5.5 oz / 155 grams
Tire 3 took 2.5 oz / 71 grams
Tire 4 took .5 oz / 14 grams

I gots no vibes even at 85 mph.

[Klif01]

If it is a large amount of weight, you want to keep that bit of weight as close to one spot on the rim as possible. For example, if you are taking 11oz, the largest pound on weight the tire store I worked at had was 9oz..so I put one 9 oz pound on then put 3oz of the sticky weights just behind it, rather than adding another 3 oz weight.

Also if you spin the tire again on the machine, and it says to add more weight to the side you just added the amount of weight to, then you didn't center the weight you added. So you need to move it on the rim just a hair to one side or the other!

[Oatmeal]

The easiest way I've found to balance my 35s is to take it to Cosco. $16 for all four! You can't beat that!:D .........Hans

[Oatmeal]

Originally posted by Klif01
.......if you are taking 11oz, the largest pound on weight the tire store I worked at had was 9oz..so I put one 9 oz pound on then put 3oz of the sticky weights just behind it, rather than adding another 3 oz weight.

Ah, dude, that adds up to 12 :confused: ...........Hans

[Klif01]

Wow.....and I posted that while I was in math class....I wasn't even thinking!

Thanks for catching that.....well the largest pound on weights were 9oz that we had (when I worked there) so it would be 2oz of sticky weights..

Damn...if you wonder why your tires were out of balance, it was probably me who balanced them...lol

[Oatmeal]

Originally posted by Klif01
Wow.....and I posted that while I was in math class....I wasn't even thinking!

Thanks for catching that.....well the largest pound on weights were 9oz that we had (when I worked there) so it would be 2oz of sticky weights..

Damn...if you wonder why your tires were out of balance, it was probably me who balanced them...lol That's because you should have been paying attention in class instead of being on Wild Yoats lol :D .........Hans

[jvmin]

I had a set of 33's once that wouldn't balance out no matter what I tried. I even had antifreeze in them at one point. they tried eight different tires on the rim.

We found out later the rear axel was bent :D
just a slight amount and spin balancing it on the truck was the closest we could get it to balance. it had a wobble at different speeds like 33-40 then it would stop and 50 -62 then it would stop so I either had to drive slow or speed.

after the tread wore out, 55,000 miles later, I found the tire had worn in a very peculiar way. one side was all the way to the cords and the other side had more than a 1/4 inch deep in tread.

so not only was my axle bent, but the tire was out of round too.
I measured from the inner lip to the tread area and it was more than 1/2 inch out of round.

I guess the out of round lined up with the bent axle and made it balance because once I rotated them it was worse than ever. that was when I found the bent axle. I just had to live with it for a while.

but back on subject
you can run antifreeze in them, to balance them at any speed after 20 mph. Speed balance them, and what ever weight it tells you put on there, put that much inside the tire in antifreeze/water mix. 50/50 and it will run smooth. it will also help with a out of round rim, or bent axle, because it did help with mine.

patch balance for the wider tires. 35 and up. if you can afford it. but it is costly. And if you lose a bead and spin the tire on the rim it will have to be done over again

people use bb's, golf balls, lead shot from shot gun shells.
I never tried those methods. I just did the antifreeze and water and it helped.

but go to a shop that sells a lot of larger tires, or it will be a trial and error type deal. the guy who sells a lot of them will have the best knowledge of how to balance them out.

[hammerhead]

Anti-freeze, BBs, Golfballs, Lead shot, or whatever CAN dampen the hop of an out of balance tire. Hard objects in the tire CAN help it to warm up faster in the same way that a hammer can warm a piece of metal. What these things CANNOT do is balance a tire. That being said there is a good write-up by Billavista (IIRC) on pirate about the BB method. There is also some discussion about golf balls on ih8mud.

Myself, I use a good old fashion bubble balancer to make my 35s and 38.5s tolerable. I may need to redo the balance job periodically or if I knock the weights around on the rocks but it only takes me a few minutes.

If you get one that is way out of round it can be "trued" at any good full service tire shop.

[Klif01]

Bubble balancer?

[uintahiker33]

yo klif, empty yer mail box, i have a firend that can pick up the drag link.

[hammerhead]

Originally posted by Klif01
Bubble balancer?

http://www.jcwhitney.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay/s-10101/storeId-10101/p-453/c-10101/catalogId-10101?storeId=10101&AID=10273849&TID=101&catalogId=10101&langId=-1&PID=1291711

[yotacool]

THANX FOR THE REPLY Y'ALL. I THINK I AM JUST GOING TO TAKE THEM TO COSTCO INSTEAD OF DOING THEM HERE AT WORK