Equal tire balance

[JoelMartin]

Does anyone in Southern California sell a product known as Equal that automaticly balances your tires and keeps them balanced?

 

[Matt400]

Click here:

IMI - Distributor Locator - Search Results

 

[Beast2B]

I've used Counteract Balancing Beads before. Same concept, different brand.

California

 

[firemanram]

That stuff is terrible. I had to take tires & wheels apart just to clean the stuff out. #@$%! I then went to a tire dealer that could spin balance my 19. 5's. I now have a great ride. Oo.

 

[Beast2B]

It's a dry powder (glass beads, i think). Only thing I could see causing trouble is too much moisture in the tire. I have heard that if the tires are mounted with excessive lube on the beads it can gum up the tire. I'm on my third set of wheels/tires using the stuff and no issues. The current set of 37s I had balanced on a new style 'load' balancer after they were mounted, then I put the balance beads in. I'm looking to see if the pre-balancing makes the tires last any longer. I did get over 45k out of my BFG 37" mudders with no machine balance, so I guess I'm doing OK.

 

[AABEN]

Your tire dealer should have it in stock. All the dealers around home has it. I also found dealers in AZ. had it in stock. I run it in my 3500 also my fithwheel. I have never had any trouble with it. Wheel weight do come off.

 

[mgonske]

I've started to wonder about using balancing beads in my Jeep tires (35-12. 50s). When running at very low pressure off-road, it's possible to spin the wheels in the tires, with the resulting new position negating any installed balance weights. (it's also possible to knock the weights off) I'm kind of tired of the annual or semi-annual balancing that's necessitated by it. It seems like the balancing beads, if they truly work, would provide a nice automatic rebalancing capability that's independent of any such shifting of the tire around the wheel.



Thoughts?

 

[BillGotthelf]

I am running the Counteract beads in my trucks including over the road dumps. WE have used these thru many tire changes and have had no problems. Once on a great while we get a bouncer but slowing down and speeding up cures it.

 

[Pavemen]

been running DynaBeads from Innovative Balancing in my trail rig. They are 37x12. 50 Creepy Crawlers on 16x8 double beadlock steel wheels. The wheels have a 3/4" thick PVC insert and rock rings on the outside.

They are a 140lb combo on each corner.

They run great up to the 80mph I have had them. I've aired down and up countless times filling up on air and CO2.

No issues at all and I would recommend them

 

[JoelMartin]

I just talked to my local tire guy and he recommends a product called Kevlar instead so thats probably what I'm gonna use. Thanx for the replies.

 

[jelag]

I have coffee with a group of guys and one of them is a bridgestone tire rep... he's ready to retire, I think another 6 or 7 months... he does not suggest them for tires smaller than 19. 5" rims, hes sees some reasonable results in larger 315/425 22. 5" used on heavy front axle trucks, examples are cement trucks, cranes, etc with 16,000 lb front axles... . I understand this as I own a truck with a 16K lb front axle, with 315 22. 5" tires and a balance problem... we decided that those rings would not be a good answer for our problem... .

Kevlar is a tire cord material, like rayon, nylon, steel, polyester, etc... . Kevlar is a Dupont trade name with Aramid as the generic name... . Kleenex is the trade name, tissue is the generic name...

Kevlar is a fibered material that is about 5 times stronger than steel pound for pound and is used in friction as well... its also the bonding material that holds the shuttle tiles together... .

Today tire sales people use the work Kevlar but most really have an Aramid material in them... we use Aramid in some clutch facings because some of the Dupont material is not available...

Also, Kevlar is used in bullet proof vests...