yeah, i was just messin with ya.
the fake ones look fine, just shouldn't be on a jeep. those are for the chevy guys that wheel their trucks, but just like the looks.

real ones look wicked, especially if they're the big lock ring type with like 32 bolts.
mine only have a small lock ring and only like 16 bolts. my backing plate is threaded, so i didn't need to nut the bolts.

but the diy beadlocks need nuts. so consider spending about 30 bux for hardware for each rim.

i like the plain large ring over the tacky cnc cut rings with skulls and whatnot. but that's just me.

mine look like these, only i painted the ring blue.

 

You mean something like these



Also id doing diy rings make your self a set of anti coning rings

 

Function over form everytime. I'm guessing even the Jeep world has it's ricers though?

Don't fake the funk.

 

Sorry early morning fog....what is a anti-coning ring? What is it for?

 

There's a reason they're called simulated. They're for the wanna-be's and pretty boys.

 

just jumping in here, im with jc on this one. although i think any look cool, if your not ganna go for the real thing there not worth going for at all. now i have seen ppl make there own, which took the price from what $60 a wheel or something, down to $75 for his entire set.

if you know how to work with metal you can make your own however you want for much cheaper than buying them. and then they are cooler just because you made them. (personal opinion)

 

What would be the best beadlock for the price, cause now that i see what your talking about and thanks for the pics

 

i dont know much about buying any beadlocks, but the ones my bud built were 1/4in thick steel and ran him $75 for the set.

they took two ppl (me and him) a week and a half to make in our high school welding class. not hard and the odds of them bending not very high.

 

this is not our beadlock but it is close to what we did.
http://www.jeepaholics.com/support/Topic572569.aspx
not very hard, i mean two high school kids did it in a week and a half

 

I would look but on these school computers i cant load crap, would you just weld it onto the outer ring?

 

Most of the weld on kits will run you about 200 for a set plus bolts. If you don't know how to weld skip them because it's not just your life but anyone near you. Also keep in mind most tire shops won't mount tires on them and you can't use weights to balance either. Just a few things to consider. Anti coning rings keep the outter ring from bending in when you tighten it against the tire. A lot of people use a v belt from a mid 80s chevy.

 

we had 2 rings, the first was 1/4in thick and the outside edge was equaly to the out side edge of the rim. the inside of the first ring can be any size you want, ours was fairly thick but we cut random cool shapes into it.
that first ring was welded to the rim along the outside edge.

the second ring was the same size as the first on the inside, but extended and extra 1/2inch over the outside edge of the rim. now because we were limited on time we did not do all the bolt holes that everyone else does, we did 32 all the way around. (i actually have no idea how many is normal, but we did 32) [the extra 1/2in on the outside is because we thought it would be cool, it serves no purpose as far as i can tell]

then using lots of bead sealer we pinched the edge of the tire in between the to rings and torqued those bolts to about 125 foot lbs. (we had nuts welded to the inside of the first ring. some ppl just tap the first ring but we thought nuts would be stronger. [you have to weld the nuts on 1st if you are going to use them or trying to get a wrench under it to hold a nut is ganna really suck])

(and if you can some pic to load here is another good site for looking at beadlocks) http://www.rockstomper.com/catalog/wheels/beadlocks.htm

 

Alright Cool Thanks!

 

no problem man, thats what we are here for.

 

125FTLBS.. on a 3/8 bolt? Thats a stupid amount of torque.. even for a grade 8. ON my bead locks I use NYlocks so mine are not welded to the inner ring either. I torque mine to 55ft/lbs. I used some 3/4 thick rubber for my anti coning rings. Worked great zro distortion on my rings.


For bead sealer I used ultra grey RTV that I let set up for 24hrs before I tried to mount tires.