Tire balancing beads - recommend for trailers

[Longshot270]

...at least for light trailers that are bent on vibrating your teeth out.

Never tried them before and glad I did. My little boat trailer was absolutely awful to pull from the tires being so out of balance. Any speed over 30 could be felt in the truck and 55 was rough enough to vibrate fuel out of the carb and detonate beer cans.

Thought about getting them balanced normally but the tire shops were too expensive and I didn't like the idea of the clip on or glue on weights for getting dunked and drug through sand and mud (especially on steel galvanized or painted rims)

Went to amazon and bought a 1 oz/ 1 oz counteract bead kit for balancing little scooter tires ($20). I thought I ordered the 2x2oz kit but must have gotten confused when I put it in the basket. I guess the larger diameter made up for the lack of mass. Even with having less than I needed they still do a good job at smoothing out the ride.

Not sure if I would put them in a wide truck tire but they are working great in these little donut boat trailer tires.

 

[Cowboy Cadillac]

I run balancing beads in the Zombie trucks tires, works awesome. A friend of mine worked on OTR truck tires and thats how they balanced them.

 

[Black02Silverado]

Good to hear they worked well for you.

 

[OldCracker29]

 

[Zembonez]

I've never used them but I've heard from several friends that they really do work well.

 

[Longshot270]

Dyna bead has a really cool video
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[tleach17]

Always ran them in my mud truck but never thought about using them in trailer tires. Good call


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[Draenor]

The tire shop put them in my current tire. I've had nothing but trouble with them. All they would do is either adjust the amount of beads or rotate my tires as a solution.
I told them to go f themselves and wend to another place. Had them take them out out and but leads in them. No problems since.


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[tnpete]

I have used them for a lot of years. But no longer pay the high price for them. When I can buy the airsoft Premium beads for so much less and they work just as good. Been running them in my 16" tires on our 16,000 lb 5th wheel, 19.5's on my Pickup, 24.5's on my F800 and even in my boat trailer tires.
Pete

 

[Longshot270]

Have you had issues with the airsoft bbs breaking apart?