balancing big tires

[tjdeerslayer37]

I've read about the ceramic beads for big tires, I've also heard you can use the little airsoft bb's as an alternative. Anybody ever done this? Airsoft bb's I can get locally cheap, if I did the ceramic ones they'd be 60 bucks.

I looked up my tire size on the ceramic bb site 35x12.5x15 and it said I need 8oz of bbs in each tire. If I used airsoft bb's (lighter than the ceramic ones) should I use the same weight which would be more bb's?

Thank you

 

[351Mazda]

yes use the same weight. For what it's worth I would throw a little more weight in there, too much won't hurt anything. I had a pound in each of my 38's on my old truck.

 

[tjdeerslayer37]

Does it still work on bias ply since they get flat spots so much

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

Does it still work on bias ply since they get flat spots so much

Yup, I put em in my buddy's 39.5 bias-ply TSLs, it's his daily driver and drives fine(once the tires round out).

I have another buddy who used to run 38.5 bias-ply TSLs on his DD, without the balance beads. Seemed to stay flat spotted for longer time, and definitely didn't drive as smooth.

BTW, where did you find the chart? Is it online?

 

[tjdeerslayer37]

http://www.innovativebalancing.com/BigTirechart.htm

There's the chart. Thanks for the help guys

 

[the_blue_phantom]

so airsoft bbs work perfectly fine as a ceramic bead replacement?

 

[bobbywalter]

airsofts are popular.....i run the dynabeads.