o/t balencing beads

hi, i was reading on this website about whats called balancing beads you put them in your tires and they are suppose to make a huge difference was wondering if any of you guys might have used them or have experience with handling them. heres the website http://www.innovativebalancing.com
thanks and have a good christmas, chris

I've heard all sorts of ways to do this. Many have used golf balls in the big truck tires, and marbles in smaller ones. Some say they work like a charm, and others say you can keep the vehicle on the road at certain times. I don't know the science behind it it by any means. I would figure everything would find its way to the heavy side or big side of a tire, and cause the problem to be worse. If a tire I have needs balancing I use a conventional method. I do like the computer balancers more and more though...

There are a Rib off they go against all the laws of Physics.
Walt
PS put a bucket of water on a rope and swing it around your head if you get all wet then they work if not they don't.

They make a product to put in tires, the past tires on my Freightliner had beads in them and drove fine, this last set were balanced with regular wheel weights on the rims, most of the time they are OK but at certain speeds they will shake you out of the cab.

I've had them in the tires of my Ford dually for almost two years. Tires have never felt out of balance. Tire wear looks good. I've drove both short and long distances in summer and winter. WB<><.

All of my trucks tires (31" highway tires all the way to 40" super swampers) are balanced with Air soft BB's from walmart. They ride smooth all the way to the speed limiter.

There is also a product called equal that is like sand, I've heard good things until i gets damp. Then it tends to clump up and not be as effective.

We use expensive computer systems to balance helicopter rotors and shafts. Once a dynamic balancer helps you reduce rotational vibration to the lowest level possible, the last thing you would want is a bunch of free floating weights spinning around inside a rotating component. Same would be true for a tire on a wheel I imagine.

My 2 pesos worth.

They do work, I use them in some off road tires on a military vehicle. They don't work at low speed of say 20 mph, but will smooth things out at high speed. Gemplers.com sells them, the packs are made for dump truck size tires, for light truck, I cut the bag in half. They are round glass beads, smaller than bb's.

I drive an 18 wheeler for a living. It is NOT a good idea to put anything in you tires on an on-hwy vehicle. Golf balls, ball bearings, etc become missles and WILL penetrate steel/aluminum sheetmetal body panels when a tire blows. They can kill! Things like antifreeze, equal, etc. can penetrate the casing from the inside out comprimising integrity/safety of the casing and shortening the life and safety. If you have a 3/4 ton and up hwy vehicle there are companies that offer centrifugal balancers that do the same thing WITHOUT comprimising safety. One of these companies are Centrumatic. They are warrentied for LIFE. Google centrifugal wheel balancers, you should be able to find them that way. or you can click on a link at www.davenemo.com. (Centrumatics) There is another company, whose name escapes me at this time, that offers the same type of setup but also offers one for drivelines. These mount in between the drum/rotor and the rim/tire assm. centering on the lug studs. They not only balance the wheel assembly, but the ENTIRE wheel end. It was a common practice to do these types of things in bias ply tires back in the day. My grandfather did it...I started to follow suit, but changed my mind when I saw the damage that can be done to a vehicle when things go bad!! Radial tires have a particular way they need to be mounted on a rim in relationship to the valvestem. If you mount a tire and it takes excessive weight to get it balanced or it just wont balance, then you need to de-mount the tire and rotate it, on the rim, and re-mount it.

Balance masters, they use mercury instead of sand and oil.

The balance material inside the tire works the same as the ring full of oil or mercury. The material moves independant of the tire, so it actually gets thrown toward the light side.

The material inside the tire, or the ring behind the tire, either one balances the entire wheel end as long as the amount of weight contained in it is sufficient.

(quoted from post at 11:36:14 12/25/09)Things like antifreeze, equal, etc. can penetrate the casing from the inside out comprimising integrity/safety

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Many of our log truck drivers have been running equal since the year it came out (iirc 1990) and have never had an issue. I've run it in tires for the last 14-15 years in my truck tires. I've never once heard of it penetrating the casing of a tire, after all its a lot like sand, and sand doesn't have much penetrating power.