• Welcome to ClassicBroncos! - You are currently viewing the forums as a GUEST. To take advantage of all the site features, please take a moment to register. It's fast, simple and absolutely free. So please join our community today!
    If you have problems registering or can't log into your account, please contact Admin.

Balance Beads?

ZOSO

Full Member
Joined
Jan 25, 2003
Messages
360
They should balance put perfect. MTR's amd any tire 35" or less should balance out easily... hmmm

Have you rotated the tires front to back to try to isolate which tire it is? "Can't be all of them .... (famous last words)

I did rotate them. Cant figure out which one or two it is. One minute it feels like its shaking in the front. Next it's the back. every once in a while the beads do work and it drives smooth. but hit one bump and its all out of whack again.
 

Scoop

Contributor
Have Bronco, Will Travel
Joined
Feb 1, 2006
Messages
10,822
Loc.
Cuchara, CO
What beads did you use? Almost sounds like they are clumping up instead of being loose and free to spread out.
 

nvrstuk

Contributor
Just a Bronco driver for over 50 yrs!
Joined
Jul 31, 2001
Messages
9,426
Loc.
PNW
I had a brand new set of N78x 15 tires back in 1975 that shook my Bronco like crazy. They local shop rebalanced them a couple times. I took them for rides and they agreed that something was wrong.

We kept rotating the tires and eventually figured out that the "bad" tire was in the rear.

Isolated it to one tire and they found that the brand new tire had internal ply separation.

That's why I asked earlier if you had rotated tires. I think you need to keep doing that and isolate it-if possible. It's very hard to track the vibration.
 
Top