tire balance

[Timstrk]

I know I'm late to the party on this but wanted to share. Drove the truck to work the other day and thought the left front tire was square. Hmmmm. Radials. Shouldn't be like that from sitting. Been doing a lot of that lately. Broke the outer bead and poured in about 8oz of galvanized bbs. Success. Smooth. So now on to the other front and better results. No more tire shop balance. Seems to work pretty well. Looked for the high density airsoft pellets but all I found were biodegradable. Thought that would end up a mess. Used the galvanized steel. Can't hear them coming to a stop and not going to try. Truck is loud enough to cover the noise.

[Broncitis]

Never heard of doing that before, If it works thats great.

[rtj731]

Google dynabeads and watch the video very interesting how they work

[chuzie]

I have used dynabeads, airsoft, weights, etc. Although BBs work just like Dynabeads, I always avoided them because they susceptible to corrosion and are abrasive to the wheel and tire. My ideal scenario would be to balance the tire with low profile sticky strip weights on the inside of the rim and use beads as a fine tuning weight maintainer as the tire wears. There are stories out there of folks who have experienced severe vibration when using beads. This is likely due to a frequency or flutter phenomenon though very rare. Also, some have reported difficulty turning at high speeds due to inertial complications. I still run beads nontheless.

[snipes243]

I won a set of the ceramic bb in July, I'm wanting to try them out with my beadlocks.