Balanced My Tires - Finally, and I found the trick here! Options

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Well, after 3 trips back to the tire shop I have them balanced. You'll think this is nuts but try it. First let's give credit where it is due. I clicked on the link posted on aircooledtechguys signature and found this article on balancing tires with air ball bb's. $9 at Wally's and you have enough for 20 tires. It was listed under under "cheap tools" on his website. Basically you put 1.5 oz's in each tire and thats it. So the 3rd trip I took 4 bags weighed out at 1.5 ounces each with these plastic 6.5mm bb's and had the "tire dude" break the beads and insert the bb's. I got some funny looks but it seems to have worked. PS. These can't be used if you have a tire sealer additive in your tires, ever! He shows white balls in his article but I much preferred the competition red bb's.
http://aircooledtech.com/tools-on-the-cheap/balancing_beads/

[Katmanken]

You don't. The tires are designed to deflect and the balance changes.

In engineering terms, if the side deflection is small, the dynamic balance changes are minimal. If the side deflection is great, the dynamic balance is affected a like amount. For both cases, the static balance changes are very little compared to the dynamic changes.

My point is: If the tire is filled with free moving balls, any side loading force moves the balls against one of the inner side walls and creates a dynamic imbalance. Because the balls are free to roll, a small side load can cause a large dynamic balance change.

Think everybody in a plane running to one side..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Still in balance or will the plane dip to one side?