Sweet82 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 The Crawler guys put water in their tires. Water seems as though it would work the same as bb's? Water goes in / out of tires easier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcspeer Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Go to Harbor Freight web site and type in manual tire changer in the search it will bring up a tire changer for around 50.00 dollars and you can add on a tire spreader for a few more dollars, and also a balancer for around 60.00 dollars more. I have all three and they are worth every penny. I can take a tire off and patch it and put it back on and balance it in just a few minutes why waste time and money fooling with a tire shop? and remount? I dont have a lot of tools, so the cheaper/less tools required the better, at 0 psi I cant budge them and dont feel like going back to a shop and letting someone charge me again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine73 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 The BB's sounds like a cool idea. Actually I've put these dynabeads in four sets of tires. Right after I put them in I also switched to cylinder nitrogen in the tires (got the cylinder on eBay and got it filled at my local welding supply shop). Anywho, after I put the beads in, the ride was glass smooth, I was pretty impressed. However this spring when I switched the snow tires back to summer tires on both Subaru's, the ride wasn't quite so good. I had a shimmy above about 60mph that wasn't there before on both vehicles. I don't know for absolute sure, but I think maybe the dynabeads gooped together with possibly excess bead sealing compound. I added more dynabeads to the shimmying wheels which did actually help but did not solve the problem. I hear/saw on TV that the Hunter with roadforce is a great balancing machine because it balances both the inside and outside of the wheel with force on the tire. Not all balancers can give separate inside&outside balance indications. Not a big deal for narrower tires but can be important for wider tires --Louis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPX Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 For those of you wondering why the beads help, here is a cool video about self balancing tires. http://www.centramatic.com/Demo/video2.mpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamike Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 try putting a board on the edge of the tire(close to the rim). then drive up it with a car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceyWV Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 Just for the record, this helped tremendously, and other than some swearing, it wasnt that hard at all. The hardest part was I broke one of the valve stems and had to get the tire all the way off to fit a new one. Vibration is down to almost nothing at 70 mph, and there is no internal rattling sound that I can hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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