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Anyone use Dyna Beads for tire balancing? Thinking about going with these when I mount my stickies. About $18/tire for the bead packs so its just a bit more than having a shop do it.
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I thought you were towing the stickies to the trail? If you are not using them on the road no real reason to balance them as far as I know.

If you do want to balance just go with plastic air soft pellets. You can do all 4 tires for about $18 or less. I have run them and they work just fine.
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Yeah they're trail only...just being thorough I guess. I'll have a look at the air soft pellets, thanks.
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For the $$, I say it's worth it..
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??? Balance stickies?
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I have no weights at all on my 35s and I run them down the road just fine. You must have Super Swampers. They arent round to begin with. I used BB,s in my Swampers. Think it was 8.00 buck for the box of .177 ammo ! FjR68
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Frank wrote:I have no weights at all on my 35s and I run them down the road just fine. You must have Super Swampers. They arent round to begin with. I used BB,s in my Swampers. Think it was 8.00 buck for the box of .177 ammo ! FjR68
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I realize it's a bit silly, 99.99% of the time these tires will be run at a crawl. That also being said, ask the guys that run KOH or Baja if they balance their comp tires. Granted I run nothing like that, but from time to time I like to step on the skinny pedal pretty hard and can hit 50 mph pretty quick. Fire roads, access roads, ect. I like to play :D About 8 oz of beads per tire is supposed to be a good number to get them nicely balanced at speed.
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I'm pretty sure Lucas doesn't balance the tires on his KOH car, but either way....

The wheel/tires on my YJ weigh 150+lbs a piece and run smooth at 70 MPH with no balancing. I guess it wouldn't hurt to throw them in though. I forsee you driving them to the trail as swapping them before and after a run is going to be a pain in the ass.
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Yeah my thought is more towards "why not?" than "why?"

Given its enough of a PITA to mount tires on bead locks, I don't want to do it twice.
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