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jeffnick mentioned that he used beads to balance the tires on his van in another thread, and I didn't want to hijack it, so I'm starting this one:
*do the "beads" work as well as spin-balancing with weights at commercial shops does?
*what do the beads cost?
*seems like I've heard of using BB's (noisy) or AirSoft pellets for the same purpose...but I can't remember for sure.
If I do this, it'd be on my utility trailer (where I tore up a sidewall a few weeks ago overloading it). The trailer is not loaded heavily very often at all (never behind my truck), but does see hundreds of miles of interstate driving at a stretch from time to time, and is WAY oversprung for the weight my truck can haul, so balance is somewhat important to me.
Comments? (Discussion of bead-balanced tires in general would be good...I'm curious.)
*do the "beads" work as well as spin-balancing with weights at commercial shops does?
*what do the beads cost?
*seems like I've heard of using BB's (noisy) or AirSoft pellets for the same purpose...but I can't remember for sure.
If I do this, it'd be on my utility trailer (where I tore up a sidewall a few weeks ago overloading it). The trailer is not loaded heavily very often at all (never behind my truck), but does see hundreds of miles of interstate driving at a stretch from time to time, and is WAY oversprung for the weight my truck can haul, so balance is somewhat important to me.
Comments? (Discussion of bead-balanced tires in general would be good...I'm curious.)