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PostSubject: Tire Balancing   Sun 29 May 2011, 4:12 pm

How often do you all end up re-balancing your tires - once, twice, never?? I've been noticing a slight vibration once I get up around 60+mph (it could just be the Jeep saying "oh no...not this fast for my little engine!!"). I think it may be the tires. It's not a big vibration, just a little annoying. My KM2's have about 15k miles and I haven't re-balanced them yet.

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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Sun 29 May 2011, 9:29 pm

Have you rotated them yet? I rotate mine every 2-3 oil changes or 10,000 mile just for that reason. Once they start to ware uneven they will never run right again. As far as rebalancing them it wouldn't hurt to do it every 20,000 or once a year.

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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Sun 29 May 2011, 9:34 pm

lonestar rubi wrote:
Have you rotated them yet? I rotate mine every 2-3 oil changes or 10,000 mile just for that reason. Once they start to ware uneven they will never run right again. As far as rebalancing them it wouldn't hurt to do it every 20,000 or once a year.


Yeah, I rotated them about a thousand miles ago. Will probably swing by Discount Tire when I get some free time.
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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Tue 31 May 2011, 9:29 am

Probably just uneven ware. My tires had uneven ware and started vibrating a little after I rotated them (had been about 25K miles). Been about 2 months now and they seem to have settled out.

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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Tue 31 May 2011, 9:40 am

I rotate my tires every 5-7K miles. They wear pretty even that way.
I also rotate in the spare tire.
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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Tue 31 May 2011, 7:25 pm

New tires will take a while to "break in" it varies with size and brand. Just like a fan belt. Before the serpentine days you would have to re adjust 2-3000 mile down the road. A new tire is the same way. The belts are moving around in the carcass until they find their "happy place". After this, the only time they need balancing is when you loose a weight off of the wheel, or bend a wheel. Rotating is crucial to long tire life.

In a nut shell you folks are on track!
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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Wed 01 Jun 2011, 6:56 pm

I had a hell of a time getting my GY military 37"s on humvee beadlocks balanced
had discount balance them and they made them worse

finally said screw it and put 4000 airsoft BBs in each and now they're smooth as silk up to 90

cost about $20 total and they rebalance themselves every time you start rolling
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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Wed 01 Jun 2011, 7:00 pm

Venom wrote:
I had a hell of a time getting my GY military 37"s on humvee beadlocks balanced
had discount balance them and they made them worse

finally said screw it and put 4000 airsoft BBs in each and now they're smooth as silk up to 90

cost about $20 total and they rebalance themselves every time you start rolling


WTF? Are you serious? I never heard of that!?!

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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Wed 01 Jun 2011, 7:06 pm

yeah, same principal as dyna beads or centramatics, only a lot cheaper
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PostSubject: Re: Tire Balancing   Wed 01 Jun 2011, 8:38 pm

Cool study
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