GIJOE
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Does anyone use this tire balancing system in there vehicles? If so do you recommend it? Tire Balancing Products
Joe
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Dyna Bead Balancing Solution
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texasjohn
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There was a thread on this maybe a year or so ago..... I looked into these beads.... some people like them... others don't/didn't understand how they worked (me included)... I decided against trying them... I decided that if I have a tire unbalance problem, there is something that I need to do other than put beads in it.... just my decision on the topic. Seems that it was a little pricey, too...
Rara Avis
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A guy I work with swears by them on his Chevy dually. I may try them on my F350. The tire department at Sams Club doesn't have the correct weights for my OEM aluminum wheels and they keep coming off. 
Turns out there are a multitude of different weights for different wheels and of course most tire places don't bother to actually use the correct weights, instead grabbing whatever they have....
Turns out there are a multitude of different weights for different wheels and of course most tire places don't bother to actually use the correct weights, instead grabbing whatever they have....I have run the Centramatics on my last 2 pickups and I like them. There is not a wheel weight one on my K3500 Crew Cab Chevy. And I get no cupping or unusual tire wear. I even had an extra set on a 14k# trailer for a while and they seemed to help. I didn't have a good long term test there as I traded the trailer.
Dad ran them (Centramatics) on his OTR truck for years. They cut his tire wear (especially on the steering axle) to nearly nothing.
As for the beads, seem like a pain if you ever had to change a tire, most tire shops hands would probably say "what's this #$%&!" and pour them in the trash. Although I do remember Dad putting a few golf balls in the trailer tires on the big truck.
Dad ran them (Centramatics) on his OTR truck for years. They cut his tire wear (especially on the steering axle) to nearly nothing.
As for the beads, seem like a pain if you ever had to change a tire, most tire shops hands would probably say "what's this #$%&!" and pour them in the trash. Although I do remember Dad putting a few golf balls in the trailer tires on the big truck.
patrick_g
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When very new I upgraded my Dodge/Cumins 1 ton 4x4 pickup to 19.5 inch Alcoa aluminum wheels and Michelin X steel belted radials. They came mounted and aired on a pallet. They came with a powder in them that resembled medium course aluminum dust but no traditional external wheel weights. I have about 70,000 miles on the mud and snow tread and they are a bit over 1/2 gone. I have never had a tire balance problem.
To put this in perspective: Other drivers who put on lots of miles per year on these same tires but with highway tread get from 100,000 to 200,000 miles on a set of these tires. Mine will rot off before I wear them out as it is not a high mile truck. It is 1997 with about 75,000 miles. I have received excellent results with the "powder" and will likely do something similar when I replace these tires for age related safety reasons long before they wear out.
Pat
To put this in perspective: Other drivers who put on lots of miles per year on these same tires but with highway tread get from 100,000 to 200,000 miles on a set of these tires. Mine will rot off before I wear them out as it is not a high mile truck. It is 1997 with about 75,000 miles. I have received excellent results with the "powder" and will likely do something similar when I replace these tires for age related safety reasons long before they wear out.
Pat
podagrower
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I don't have this type of product in my tires, but I have been using a product called "Equal". I am running 33x12.50 tires on cheap aluminum rims on my redneck dream machine. These rims are hard to balance, the truck is impossible to align, and going to the tire shop for rebalancing every thousand miles got old pretty quick. Since I started using the equal, I have stripped off the wheel weights and the truck rides better than ever.
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I've heard of people that run big offroad tires on there trucks useing BB's for balance. These tires can be off balance by a lot.
Sully2
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GIJOE said:
I use them on my motorhome tires ( 12R-22.5 ) and at 70 mph the rig runs as smooth as glass. Basically the same product as "Equal" except Dyna Beads are ceramic and thusly cant "clump together"
Sully2
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texasjohn said:
Any rotating object will rotate around its center of mass. If you put a large weight on one side of the tire, the center of mass for the tire will move towards that weight,and the tire will try to rotate around that new center of mass. The result is that the ride will be rough as the tire is pounding the ground because the axle moves up and down, trying to keep the center of rotation ( which is now not the same as the center of the wheel) at a constant point.
Now, if you put something inside the tire that is free to move, it will try to move to the point furthest from the center of rotation. That is because the force on the sand, golf ball, or equal is directly proportional to the radius of the rotation. This movement of the sand, or whatever will continue until the center of mass for the wheel is exactly at the center of the wheel (also known as the axle) At that point the tire is balanced until you stop and the stuff falls to the bottom of the tire. Whenever you start up, the whole balancing act resumes. If the stuff clumps, it can't move and the tire won't self balance.