I did actually. I put 8oz in each 35" tire and took the tire weights off per instructions and made a mental note of how much weight I took off of each one....6.25 and 6.5 oz on the fronts and 3.5 on both rears, which I found a little odd. It made some weird wobble at slower speeds, especially after hitting a minor bump, like the start of 'death wobble' if you've ever experienced that before. At about 30 it felt like the beads were starting to work, at 50 it was about as smooth as before (with just the weights) but at 55 it started shaking again, not the wobble from lower speeds, but like it wasn't balancing right. At 62 it started smoothing out again but at 75-80 it was as bad or slightly worse than my original complaint (my original issue was that the tire shop couldn't get the shake out between 75-85, not to be confused with the LML shake that has spawned a few threads). At slower speeds like 30mph, it would start to smooth out then hit a decent bump and it would start over again for a few seconds. At higher speeds, the bumps had much less affect.
So, I decided to order more beads. I figured that if the front tires needed over 6 oz of lead to balance them (and that obviously wasn't enough), I would add a couple more ozs of beads to each tire. While I was waiting for the new beads to show up, I decided to try and put a few ounces of lead back , with new double sided tape, to experiment. I added 3oz to each front tire and nothing to the rears and I couldn't believe I was driving the same truck. Even at slower speeds it doesn't feel like I'm waiting on the beads to do what they do, and it's 99% smooth all the way to a 100+mph. (Just a note, I reread the dynabead site and found where they said it was ok to leave the weights on, on certain low profile tires, but these are definitely not lopros). Now I have to decide whether I can make it better or worse by adding more beads to the rear, or fronts, because more beads take longer to 'act' when taking off from a stop.
That's my story....to be continued....maybe.
I just came across these balancing beads that you put it the tires to keep them balanced. I guess there has to be some negative by product or reason that they are not to popular. after I rotated my tires the other day, I have a horrible shake. instead of getting my tires balanced again, I would rather switch to the beads.
