Balance beads or weights for tire balancing ?

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screamindemon

screamindemon

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Hey guys I am going to have a new tire mounted on my 05 Chopper tomorrow. What is the preferred method for balancing your tires.
Having a 250/40/18 Avon Cobra Chrome mounted.
Thanks
 
SKOGDOG

SKOGDOG

One of the old ones.
The beads only balance the tire on a vertical plane—any lateral imbalance will persist. I have no idea what percent of tires have a lateral imbalance issue—I have been using the beads for years (over 100,000 miles on BDM’s—same for Blacktopper)) and never had an issue with lateral imbalance. Below is a paragraph from an internet review:

they only work in the vertical. If your tire - or wheel - has any lateral imbalance you will need to do a traditional balance to correct it.
How do you know if you have a lateral imbalance?
You won't until you either try the beads or have them balanced using traditional methods. That means you need to be very lucky or spend more money to use an auto balancing bead than if you had the tires balanced once using the traditional method.
If you have to manually balance the tires because of a lateral imbalance, you can add a small amount of the beads to maintain the balance as tires wear and deform from use. Again, this will only help if the imbalance is in the vertical plane and not a lateral imbalance. What they can offer is to reduce the amount of weights needed to balance a tire. For large tires, or tires with a significant amount of radial run-out, the beads can lessen the amount of physical weights installed in the wheel. Handy but not life altering.

Mr. Wright is correct—putting the beads in after the tire is mounted is a pain…..and it’s smart to buy a couple of valve cores that have a little filter-—because sometimes a bead can prevent the valve from closing properly and when you check tire pressure, your tire will promptly deflate and if there is no air compressor available (like a motel parking lot), you’ll be in a fix…..best to check the tire in the 6 o’clock position. The filtered valve cores prevent this.

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Sven

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Beader: Beat you from light to light I will.
Leadfoot: Takes a lead weight to extend it in the upper MPH of stability.

Beader: Beader late than never going to go that fast, not in the blood.
Leadfoot: She it, I've been eating so much sue she these days, I have enough lead to balance about 16 tires worth.

Beader: I eat the bubbles. Hard to go down the pipe an all.
Leadfoot: She it, this is Grade-A Speedemon eat as fast as you want and more.

Beader: You one of those in store gate hers?
Leadfoot: Does lead meet the foot?

Beader: Speaking about sea food.
Leadfoot: ka le ma re?

Beader: I'm a guessing fool with an ounce here and and ounce there I couldn't fucking tell.
Leadfoot: I'm gravity fed pure race, straight up, in the lateral, hands free, golly G [for gravity] WOT in the upright and bend over for WATT science are you playing wit?

Signed,
I don't care how ugly it looks, nature calls the balance.
 
Minuteman

Minuteman

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Supporting Member
Adding the beads is not a problem even after the tire has been mounted. Amazon has a bead kit which has a small fill bottle, a stem removal tool and you can order the proper ounce packages based on what is required. Just let the air out, add the beads and add air back into the tire, it takes about 15-20 minutes to do both tires.
 
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Ernie12

Active Member
It is super easy to add them yourself. Just put the amount you need in the bottle, take out the valve stem attach the hose from the bottle and turn bottle at an angle and touch the wifes vibrator where the hose and valve come together. The trick is the vibration does all the work. :whoop::old2:
 
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