Internal tire balance?

[ROKDWLR]

The combination of large tires + light rigs = (in my case) balance problems. My SSRs were perfect when I bought them but they rebalaced them during a rotation and I've been back 2 more times and they still can't get them right. Their equiptment is recalibrated evey week but that doesn't seem to make a difference. I remeber hearing about internal balance products that are similar sand. Has anyone heard of this stuff or use it and had luck with it? TIA.

Craig

 

[74bronc]

yes, I have heard of it. No, you don't want to use it. It sucks.

I have done my fair share of tire balancing and unfortunately it isn't the tire dudes that can't get them right, it is your tires. Plain and simple. Those kind of tires suck to get balanced right even on a very expensive and calibrated machine. Even if they get it to zero out, they will be out of balance next week.

 

[brian72]

74bronc
Are all big tires hard to keep in balance or it is just the SSR tire?

 

[Skuzzlebutt]

Larger tires are harder to balance. Interco tires are probably hardest of all. Their carcasses do not have as consistant thickness as other makes.

 

[66horse]

The combination of large tires + light rigs = (in my case) balance problems. My SSRs were perfect when I bought them but they rebalaced them during a rotation and I've been back 2 more times and they still can't get them right. Their equiptment is recalibrated evey week but that doesn't seem to make a difference. I remeber hearing about internal balance products that are similar sand. Has anyone heard of this stuff or use it and had luck with it? TIA.

Craig

I gave balancing powder a try. It sucked. Got rid of it. I wrote a thread on this the other day.

The just of it is that I always had some vibration you could feel and see in the mirror with the spare tire. Finally decided to get rid of the balancingg powder and have them normally balanaced. All vibration gone!

 

[74bronc]

74bronc
Are all big tires hard to keep in balance or it is just the SSR tire?

Not specifically the SSR tire, but anything with huge lugs are hard to balance. Interco tires seem to be the worst. I could get BFG Muds, Dunlop Muds, Goodyear MTR's and others to balance just fine, it was just the nobby ones that were a pain. I was the poor sap that got stuck trying to balance the nobby tires on more than one occasion!

 

[ROKDWLR]

Thanks for the feeback guys. Looks like it's back to the tire shop for me.