[Minerigger]

Do you rotate yourself

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[KensAuto]

Ive always let the tire shop balance the tires and added the beads at home. For whats its worth the tires were 325/65/18.

I wish you would have posted this little tidbit of info a week ago!oke[1]:

 

[Duratys]

Do you rotate yourself

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I do.

I wish you would have posted this little tidbit of info a week ago!oke[1]:

Lots of guys figure leaving the weights on defeats the purpose of the beads. My thoughts are to balance them with weights and let the beads maintain throughout the tires life or compensate if a weight is lost.

 

[chevylovinfordtech]

NO!!!!!!!!! Biggest mistake is to run those damn things!!! Every time I have to diag a truck that has a bad vibration that gets worse with speed its always those damn things! I would advise against running this sorry excuse for a balance, and this is coming from a guy who does mostly tires where I work

 

[pigpen23]

well me and 3 of my friends are running em and no one has had any issues yet when previously we have while running regular weights. i'll stick to the beads until i have a problem.

 

[KensAuto]

It's the best thing I've done to my truck so far. It's the worst feeling to me, driving a 60k+ practically new truck, and have it ride like a getto car.

 

[chevylovinfordtech]

Ive just personally never seen these things work, damn near every time I have a truck with and unexplainable vibration I pop them open to find these damn beads....I hate them due to my experiences, so just take what you want from it

 

[dslkraz]

Ive just personally never seen these things work, damn near every time I have a truck with and unexplainable vibration I pop them open to find these damn beads....I hate them due to my experiences, so just take what you want from it

In your case it would be nice to know how many ounces of beads are being removed it sounds like maybe there are too many which would not work properly. I am currently using balancing beads in all of my fleet vehicles with no problems. But you have to make sure the right amount is being put in depending on tire size.

 

[KensAuto]

Ive just personally never seen these things work, damn near every time I have a truck with and unexplainable vibration I pop them open to find these damn beads....I hate them due to my experiences, so just take what you want from it

Yeah, that's the same thing my tire shops have stated...they find a tire with them in it and they take them out. I had this discussion with them while they were trying to balance them for the 3rd time. I asked the last guy "why can't you get these tires balanced at 80mph" even tho I already knew that it's because oversize tires 'move' around at different speeds and temps, but his answer was primitive and too generic, "...because they're oversized mud tires, what do you expect?". I believe there's a place for beads and I found it...on my truck. But it's to early to be 100% certain.
On another note, someone mentioned putting the tires on a machine with the beads inside....that won't work, they are reactive. They have to experience contact with the road and then react to being out of round. I read something like that from the Dynabead site.

 

[ironman_gq]

Only time I have known them to cause problems is when you air up the tires at a gas station or shop with water in their air lines, water and beads makes clumps of beads that don't distribute very well, if its below freezing they will freeze up and shake like hell till they warm up and melt.

 

[Duratys]

On another note, someone mentioned putting the tires on a machine with the beads inside....that won't work, they are reactive. They have to experience contact with the road and then react to being out of round. I read something like that from the Dynabead site.

I was under the impression the balancing machine didnt spin the tire fast enough for the beads to distribute throughout the tire where they are needed to balance it out?

 

[KensAuto]

I was under the impression the balancing machine didnt spin the tire fast enough for the beads to distribute throughout the tire where they are needed to balance it out?

This is what I pulled from Dynabeads q&a section:

"Q: Can I put the tire on a balancer to see if it's working?"
"A: No. Dyna Beads operates on physics principles, and requires the tire assembly to be in motion against a road surface to detect the exact counterbalance position. An electronic balancer has a solid, fixed mount, and does not allow the tire to react to imbalance."

 

[chevylovinfordtech]

Ive put them on a machine before, itll throw all sorts of wierd numbers up, 1 time itll be perfectly balanced the next spin will ask for 6 ounces on 1 side, makes for a major wtf moment

 

[KensAuto]

Ive put them on a machine before, itll throw all sorts of wierd numbers up, 1 time itll be perfectly balanced the next spin will ask for 6 ounces on 1 side, makes for a major wtf moment

I could definitely see a guy losin' his temper and not liking beads because of this!:rofl

 

[Minerigger]

Took mine to the tire shop today. This vibration was getting horrid. They balance the front drivers and like I suspected it was out of balance. Sears put the weight 180 from where they needed to be on the outside and forgot the weight on the inside...took her to 95 and didn't shake once. Im might get some beads and throw em in anyways...I looked at dyna bead site and didn't find my size per say. Im guessing 5 or 6 oz per tire for the LT265/75R16 but not sure, guess ill email them

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[KensAuto]

Took mine to the tire shop today. This vibration was getting horrid. They balance the front drivers and like I suspected it was out of balance. Sears put the weight 180 from where they needed to be on the outside and forgot the weight on the inside...took her to 95 and didn't shake once. Im might get some beads and throw em in anyways...I looked at dyna bead site and didn't find my size per say. Im guessing 5 or 6 oz per tire for the LT265/75R16 but not sure, guess ill email them

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If they balanced out conventionally, why would you use the beads? I wouldn't.

 

[Minerigger]

I might buy some still debating...or I could keep the $$ and put to the turbo fund

 

[Duramax.]

ok I finally purchased some Dyna beads! thanks for all the feedback. I will post up how the install goes and find out if they fix my balancing issues as soon as they ship

 

[KensAuto]

I found out 12 ozs is to much. 10 would have been perfect for my particular tires but I guess I flunked math....I had 8 in each tire and wanted to add 2, so I take an 8oz bag, split it in half, and added.....umm, I think half would be 4 ozs.:cookoo[1]: Now I have that weird wobble that occurred before adding lead weights back on the front, but now it only wobbles at 52-58mph instead of slower speeds like before. On a good note, my original complaint of a shake at 80mph is about 95% gone. Problem is, the 2 speeds I spend the most time driving are 55 and 80. Now to figure out how to take 2 ozs back out. lol

 

[Duramax.]

I found out 12 ozs is to much. 10 would have been perfect for my particular tires but I guess I flunked math....I had 8 in each tire and wanted to add 2, so I take an 8oz bag, split it in half, and added.....umm, I think half would be 4 ozs.:cookoo[1]: Now I have that weird wobble that occurred before adding lead weights back on the front, but now it only wobbles at 52-58mph instead of slower speeds like before. On a good note, my original complaint of a shake at 80mph is about 95% gone. Problem is, the 2 speeds I spend the most time driving are 55 and 80. Now to figure out how to take 2 ozs back out. lol

what tires do you have? I purchased 8oz for each tire 35" toyo's

why did you decide to add more weight?