beadlocks for prerunner?

[sports5]

Im building a ranger prerunner and I wanted to know if prerunner necessary have to have bealocks or are the beadlock only for rockcrawlers?

 

[wahlstrom1]

Any time you plan on driving aggressively beadlocks will come in handy.

Crawlers - Push the bead off running into rocks and running low sigle digit air pressure.

Prerunner - Knock beads off in high speed turns, rolling the sidewalls over and burping air on impacts (rocks/ledges etc)

Drag racers - Spin rims inside tires on hard launch's with slicks.

 

[sports5]

what about maintenance ? What do you have to do to them?

 

[wahlstrom1]

Depends on what kind you go with:

Bolt on style you have to check the bolt torque regularly.

Inner air you have to check the tube for proper air pressure.

 

[sports5]

are they dot approved?

 

[wahlstrom1]

Some are, some aren't....You can get an aluminum DOT approved bolt on beadlock but they're big $$$. The inner air locks don't have a DOT approval, but they don't need it as all the are essentially is an inner tube... just gotta drill a second valve stem hole in the rim.

 

[GDRBO]

My Ranger (87) has been a prerunner/chase rig nearly since new. I have owned it since 2000. I prerun, chase and have run some pretty serious Poker runs with it and in the last 11 years have never had a flat not caused by a puncture (one staple and one screw). I also don't plan to buy beadlock wheels for it when we race it. Only if we start having flats will I reconsider. In my opinion spend the money elsewhere.

 

[Bennybooster]

I do some co-driving in a race truck with out beadlocks and it does great. In my opinion beadlocks are the last thing that you need to buy