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Don’t be too jelly. My hand just cramped and one of my fingers started spasming from these damn bolts. I’m gonna be sooooore tomorrow.

 

Ohh yea you are. I don’t envy that part at all...lol.

Are you using balancing beads or getting them balanced at a shop?

 

The ol' claw hand strikes!

 

I’m gonna see if discount will balance them. Pretty sure I have free balances for the life of these tires. Doesn’t say anything about which wheels they’re on.

 

haha. Get em!

 

I just timed myself on the bolts for this third wheel. 40 minutes. 40 fucking minutes, sitting on a bucket, going round and round and round. Beadlocks are not for the weak apparently.

 

https://youtu.be/0u8teXR8VE4

 

I got 3 out of 4 done and I’m calling it quits for the day since I’ve been at it for 6 hours now. I’ll reattack tomorrow or Thursday to finish it up. Then get them balanced and hopefully get these tires sold.

 

you like the hankooks over the yoki's?

 

Dunno, I don’t have any experience with the yoko. Only swapping them around because the yoko’s are smaller than my hankooks, and I’m not gonna downsize.

 

ohhhhh I got ya. That makes sense then. I wish I could convince my friend to snag these. the 4runner they got it technically his wife's and MTs are forbidden lol

 

Boooo, I wish he’d buy them too lol at the price they’re listed, it’s pretty much buy 3 get 1 free.

 

i also think that they are on stock suspension might turn them off of the 295/70 size lol.

If I was sticking with this size for my next set of tires AND wasn't planning to buy a house i'd snag them as spares lol

It's a great price honestly

 

Thanks, I try and price stuff fair. I’m not trying to get rich off used truck parts lol

 

Two things:
a. idk anything about beadlocks, but wouldn't a socket attachment on your cordless driver be a lot faster?
2. you need some more of that vodoo black tire goop in the 5 gal bucket.

 

The beadlock ring is the only thing holding that outer bead of the tire to the wheel so you want it perfect. There’s 24 bolts that need to be tightened down as evenly as possible so it’s not lopsided. It’s also grade 8 bolts that thread into aluminum so it would be easy to fuck up the threads if you’re not careful.

I hand thread in all 24, then grab a 1/4” drive ratchet and snug them all up. Once you work your way around the ring, by the time you finish one rotation, the “oldest” one is loose now. Keep in mind too I have to bounce back and forth from one side of the ring to the other between every. Single. Bolt. Rinse and repeat for 15 minutes. Just working your way, round and around, a few turns at a time. Once they’re all snug, then I put a torque wrench on them and do the same thing, setting them to 13 ft lbs. Round and around. Then again to 18. Then again to 23. This ensures it’s as perfectly equal as you can reasonably get.

Then add air to seat the rear bead, let air out and check torque again, going round and around a few more times.

It’s exhausting but only needs to be done once. From here on out I just need to check torque to make sure they’re set which won’t take nearly as long and can be done on the truck.

I agree about the black magic tire paint stuff. If I had some I would have dressed up my tires before mounting them. They look sad.

 

I can’t remember if I shared the weight here, but the new setup is about 110 lbs per corner vs my old 96 lbs per corner. Granted, I’m ditching my spacers which average 2.5 lbs per corner so a roughly 11-12 lb increase per corner.

 

I'm sure I could talk our machinists at work into making you a 1 input, 20 output beadlock nut setter. You aren't gonna like what they're gonna bill you though.

 

I’d be especially upset because I need a 24 output

 

Psssh, can't spoon feed ya.

They'll build you a 20-24 converter too. Total shouldn't be more than $20G or so