tire balancing

[Nullifier]

So last night I got my 5 new maxxis 255 muds mounted. When I was at Mike Lokey's shop mounting them we decided to use Equal balancer to do the trick. The set up is really slick for installing them. There is a small canister with and air line hooked to one end. You pour in the equal andseal it up . Then hook the air line to the tire. Once it is pressurised it fources the equal into the tire. Based on the size of the tire we put in 4oz which was recommended. Special valve stems get inserted so it doesn't blast out when airing down.

The up side is that I do not have to worry about losing wheel wieghts. so for offroad use it is great. The process is fairly expensive $15 per tire to balance. But it will do it's job for the life of the tire. Now on my way home in a damn monsoon I got a good idea of how they work. I'm glad I did it but I wouldn't do it on a daily street driver I think. It seemed that it took about 15-20 seconds for the tire to balance after a stop. It would also take about 10 seconds for the tire to balance when accelerating from a driving speed to passing speed. I'm inclined to recommend it for our expo and offroad rigs. But at this time I would not set up my wifes Jetta this way.

Now granted I only did about 12 miles in bad rain so the full verdict is not in yet. I will have more feedback after the 7500 mile baja run.

 

[OverlandZJ]

I'v "read" that if you air down and do alot of wheeling in water/mud (which i remember some of your pics), you MAY experience leakage past the bead and allow water to enter. If that happens you may end up with a concrete mixture inside your tires. I'v never used it, so YMMV...

I went the BB method when i ran large Swampers for this reason.

Please report back after varied use with this product. :smiley_drive:

 

[Nullifier]

I'v "read" that if you air down and do alot of wheeling in water/mud (which i remember some of your pics), you MAY experience leakage past the bead and allow water to enter. If that happens you may end up with a concrete mixture inside your tires. I'v never used it, so YMMV...

I went the BB method when i ran large Swampers for this reason.

Please report back after varied use with this product. :smiley_drive:

You could be right. The stuff looks like sand although we know it is not.