Sinking Creek 4WD Association

yeah, i don't think you can really get too much weight in there (common sense applies here, tho). mine get wobbly now around 35, but only if i'm driving on them cold... and i think that's more a function of the fact that bias swampers are about as round as a concrete masonry unit. if they're warmed up they run true as fast as the treehugger will go (which is like 170 mph). seriously... that bitch'll go 170. i'm not lying.

170 inches per minute that is.

I do notice that it is better and worse at times, I guess sometimes the BB's all get where they need to be and sometimes they don't.

I was talkin with a guy and he mentioned some people put antifreeze in there for internal balancing.

Only thing id worry about with antifreeze (not sure if it will happen) but if you blow the tire or just letting out air, if any will come out of the tire. Can be dangerous to you and bad for the area....but not sure how well it will stay at the bottom of the tire or not. (prolly fine, but just use more bb's.)

We can try this at one of the club meetings. I want to do a weekly tech thing at every meeting teaching newbies (myself included) how to do different things.

Repairs, tech, recovery, driving skills, etc. etc.

Leach

Bringing this back to the top.
After 4 ½ years of internally balanced tires I came to a couple of conclusions.
SXs are not for the street but you can make do.
If your rig sees a lot of offroad time internal balancing is the way to go.
No more need to worry about lost wheel weights, blown beads or chunking of the tread with respect to balancing.

Scheid rode in my truck over the summer and said he thought my internally balanced used bias SX blems rode better then his fairly new radial truxus with conventional balancing. So I decided to give it a go on my tacoma with 31" radials. I split 5000 .2 gram bbs between the 4 tires. They ride great below 60. Above 60 they seem to go in and out of balance but for the most part are fairly well balanced and are definitely better. Part of this may be due to the fact when the tires were installed they were not balanced causing the tires to wear a bit irregularly and prompting me to try this.

Im sure I prolly already chimed in somewhere in this thread, but I tried air softs in my 37" MTR's and I found that once the tires started bouncing on the high way they would not stop. I messed with different amounts and could not fix the problem. At one point decided to break the tires down and remove the beads, I did two at a time. I drove to PA and back with rim weights on the front and BB's in the back. The front was smooth as glass, and the rear was horrible. It was so annoying that on the way back I stopped a few tire places to see if they would remove the BBs and spin balance them, but no place "could" balance a 37. When I got home I broke them down and removed the BB's and had quality tire spin balance them. They were all smooth after that.

I have had the weights move around in the rocks, but for me I want my truck to ride smooth since I have MTR's so I move em back or have em re-spun at 10bucks a pop is not the end of the world.

BTW I asked jack at quality tire if he thought he could balance them with all the weight on the inside if I welded on rim stiffners and he said he could.

I have airsofts in both my 31" M/T's on the Jeep and the 33x10.50 boggers and both are smooth as silk up to 60mph (75 in the Jeep).