94toyotapickup

water thats wierd im not a scientist but wouldnt it evaporate idk maybe not cus its sealed but still surpiizing to me

SR5

i cant believe it
this is the weirdest thing i have ever heard

drew303

Offtopic but they fill Tractor tires with calcium chloride... but this is for weight. Thought I'd throw that out there since we're onto weird tire facts.

Never heard of the balls in the tire, not sure how that works having a hard time visualizing it =/

Matt16

Totally true. Watch this you nay-sayers.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq263AYgyYg[/youtube]

drew303

hey now, he didnt get the bottle up to full speed w/out the beads. I can see how centrifical force, forces the beads to spread the load evenly around.

cubuff4runner

I tried AirSoft BB's in my old MTR's and couldn't get it to ballance right, and I tried about 5 different amounts. If you do try it don't listen to anybody who says you can't put too many in, because you can. Only so many BB's can cover the surface of the location that is out of balance once it is exceeded the rest of the BB's need to go somewhere which means they are going to other locations conteracting the ones that are in the correct location. If you go to innovative balancing's website they give weight for specific tires, go with that weight.

I am using Dynabeads in my Iroks now and they work great.

saitotiktmdog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrif...eference_frame)

idanity

now we're cooking w/fire.

i never heard of this, but i sure am glad i have now.
thanks everyone.

Toyvana

I was having a hard time getting my 33's balanced on my 4Runner a while back and a "professional" tire shop tried using the bb's to balance....LAME. There was so much wobble it was scary. I immediately took it back and finally found a legitimate tire shop that could balance a tire.

coolthew

woah! thats awesome. I didn't think that would work

ryantowry_81

x2 on tooo many sucks. i did 18oz in my 39's at first and there were worse then backed down to 17 oz and works great.

I like them because you cant knok them off the rim and you dont have to pay the 50 bucks a tire for balancing they gouge you with up here!!

krb90

could you use sand?

ryantowry_81

i guess you could but i wouldn't it would be too small and get into the bead real easy and cause leaks. also really abrasive materials might wear your tire from the inside, and sand will clump when presented with moisture.

I would stay away from sand!

cubuff4runner

There is a product similar to sand /powder called Equal, but the problem is when you are filling you are inflating & deflating your tires a lot moisture gets in there and makes it clump.

drew303

huh? Maekng fun of mi spelleeng?

MIKEMOKAS

awesome, im convinced. im doing this!

Thank you guys for all of the replys!!!

idayota

for what its worth, i balanced out a set of 37" goodyear mtr's with half a paint can cap full of metal bb's. worked great and drove on em as a daily driver 25 miles each way to work. i found that 99% of the time, the balance was perfect. 1% of the time i would get up to speed and it would feel like one of the tires didn't balance, which makes sense if you think about it. speed up too fast or too slow and a clump of beads get plastered to one spot across the width of the tire. but for the most part, worked great and saved a bunch of money mounting and balancing my own tires.

ps...the sound the bb's make when you come to a stop will also throw you/other people for a loop at times

Tofer

i think i'm going to do this on my trailer tires since they ahve no weights it at all, it'll make it a lil smother while towing it empty.

Matt16

It would require a lot of torque for the drill to take it up to full speed with a 20g weight off centre. It would have to be a pretty powerful drill.

Tofer

FYI: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=9222911