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Old Jul 28, 2011 | 11:14 AM
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Come on guys. Someone explain the whole procedure. The suspense is killing me!
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Old Jul 28, 2011 | 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Slick761
Come on guys. Someone explain the whole procedure. The suspense is killing me!

click this link and select the "How it works" tab, it will explain how the bb's will balance your tires. The link is for a company that sells glass beads for balancing but it is the same concept for bb's

http://www.innovativebalancing.com/index.php

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Old Jul 28, 2011 | 02:29 PM
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I have seen those before but they were too expensive for my taste
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Old Jul 28, 2011 | 02:33 PM
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Set the tire down on the ground put dish soap around the bead of the tire put the rim on top of it and force the rim in and the last part is hard when putting the other part if the rim onto the tire take 2 nice size pry bars and use them to stretch the tires over the rim it helps to have 2 people i did this same way with 35s and it worked and to set the bead use a LITTLE bit of starter fluid around the bead and light it on a stick and light the starter fluid it will fill up and tire will be warm and quickly get air on it
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Old Jul 28, 2011 | 03:59 PM
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well when we mounted my 33 x 11.25 x 16 (285/75/16) on a set of 16x8 Soft 8 steelies we just dumped 8oz on plastic airsoft BBs in each wheel... works great 85MPH on the GPS and no vibes at all

it's really the best way to go, when the wheel rotates if slings the BBs where they need to go... so no matter how your tire wears you have a perfect balance, however it can not fix a snapped belt...

one example of these working is when I went to have a spare installed the spare need 18oz of weight... they tried to balance it, but it was a joke... the problem was that the weights had to be inside and outside of the wheel... and they took up close to half the rim's lip

well as you can imagine vibrated like your girl friend's favorite girllie toy... lol

well I took the weights off at home, rotated the rim and wheel 180 degrees and threw 8 oz of beads in the tire... guess what... SMOOTH SAILING...

weird thing is my lady did not like the Vibro-Jeep 2000 and 1!
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Old Jul 28, 2011 | 04:06 PM
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If you can take them off and bring them somewhere you can save some cash. I live down here in edwardsville and there is a gas station called jacksons that did mine for $40 for 4 tires taken off stock wheels and put on my cragers last week. http://www.innovativebalancing.com/BigTirechart.htm
use this tire chart and weigh out how much for the size you need. I'm the one you seen a couple weeks ago.
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Old Jul 28, 2011 | 04:13 PM
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Yes dish soap works wonders to make them slick. Depending on the tire brand in the size you have may go on easy. I have found that BFG's especially mount easy i have alway done them by hand. Also depending on rim size the starting fluid or similar stuff may not be needed just but air to it and they mount up if its close you could put a racheting strap around center of tire to help it make contact and take air. Watch where the valve stem is the tire can get caught on it and if forced to hard it can tear and you wont know until it leaking air. Example valeve at 12 o'clock and start tire at 6 o'clock and work it up to 12 on both sides. I walk on the edge of the tire and rim most of the time when they are stubborn. (watch you balance if you are alone).
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