Dyna Beads | Balancing beads | Automatic tire balacning | Questions | Answers

I don't hear it unless the windows are down, radio is off, and there is no traffic or other noises around. Not loud at all.

 

Thanks man. Been dealing with out of balance tires for to long. Dang stealerships

 

I was in the same boat. I think you'll be pleased.

 

Do they do any damage to the rim or wear the interior of the tire?

 

No.

 

I've got to try this on my half worn tires that they cant seem to get balanced. Wondering if I should just leave the weights on and add 4oz per 265/75/16 LTC's? Maybe just do the front two first which are terrible at 55-65 mph post rotation even though the tire guy assured me they were balanced
It would be a good test because it's so bad right now

 

It will probably help in the beginning.

One problem I foresee is, the tire shop trying to rebalance the tire with the beads in there if a wheel weight should be lost, or after further wear.

I'm going to find a shop that can confirm proper balancing of a tire with beads in there. Had a long talk with one of the more knowledgeable guys at discount tire about my beads. I wanted them to spin one on my tires with beads on their balance machine to see what it thinks of my wheel/tire combo, etc.

There is this also this concept of road force balancing, however I don't know a shop in my area that does that, and furthermore, two people I trust in the auto industry said that it was for cars, not truck tires.

I know from reading this forum, that members have had it done, so I need to do more research in that area.

 

From what I understand you shouldn't need re-balancing (with beads) for the life of the tire which should be maximized. I ordered some of the OR beads you have and will try putting 4 or 5oz in with weights and see. I ordered 2 10oz bags. Cant wait to try. Either that or new tires! Would like to hold off on new tires for now, too many other expenses going on now. My tires are at 7-8 32nd's and cupping now because of this.

 

If you're going to mix wheel weights and beads, and your tires are not new, one solution would be to mark your wheel weight position on the wheel, and note the weight. that way if they fall off you can compensate.

 

I put 5oz in each of the front wheels and didn't remove any weights. I have another 10oz bag I'll use when I rotate the tires. First impression is they definitely helped. I ran it through the 55-60mph range several times. Sometimes I felt a little shimmy in the steering and sometimes nothing. Interesting! It definitely helped though. It was a little sketchy using the HL jack method to break the bead. On the 2nd tire it lifted the other side of the tire to the point where the jack slipped off the tire and the truck came down. Luckily the jack just went sideways and didn't hit anything. I also had a little trouble airing it back up on one because the air just kept leaking out and it wouldn't seat. I bounced the tire a little and sprayed some glass cleaner on the bead then it seated. Man those beads really are hard to break down and when it finally lets go it squashes the tire down against the other side . That part is a little unnerving. I'll report back again after a few days. So far so good

 

Marking

 

@Crom, how do you like the beads now that you've been running them for a long time? No regrets? I'm thinking about doing this when I go to 40s on 17s with my Tundra.

 

To add to this thread, I had to remove the beads from my set of 315/75/16's. They were unable to balance the tires and I was getting some pretty bad steering wheel shake at times. Sometimes the shake would be minor and sometimes a little worse. I think even a small shake will wear down steering components faster than normal. These beads seem to be hit or miss.
I had the tires balanced using traditional stick on weights and they are perfectly smooth now. I do have another set of tires that are balanced good using these beads though. So they do work, just maybe not on certain tires.

 

I had a bad experience with them too and wonder if the set you're balancing with them now will crap out eventually as well. If anyone is looking into these I would suggest they do a thorough research session, and not just on Tacomaworld. You'll find a lot of hit and miss reviews for these. Some people like them and others say they are worthless. Based on my personal experience with them, I'm in the latter of those groups and would never buy them again. If anyone is having tire balancing issues try to have them road force balanced. (Some even say road force is snake oil, YMMV)

 

Did yours work at first? When I had first mounted the tires with the beads, they were pretty smooth. As time went on I would get intermittent shakes. And there's nothing wrong with the set of tires because they were balanced normally, not road force balanced. I'll see if the other set with the beads goes bad too.

 

Mine never felt right and took them out in less than a week. And I wasn't specifically recommending you to try out road force balancing, that was a recommendation to anyone reading this thread and is having issues with tire balancing thinking that Dynabeads might solve their problems. Sorry if it looked that way.

 

Can the beads wear the paint off the inside the rim???

 

Strange how they work great for some, including myself, and not at all for others.

It would be interesting to take a tire that wouldn't balance with them and play around with the amount of beads in the tire. Could be as simple as needing more beads/weight.

 

That's my thought too. I tried them and they helped but didn't totally get rid of the shimmy at 60mph. I got new tires and asked the guy to spend a few extra minutes to dial in the balancing for each tire with weights and its good now. I think it's a great idea but how are you going to know exactly how much to put in? Especially in a used tires? Too many factors but I have the beads if anyone is interested. I think I have 20oz total.

 

That was my thought, you chose the amount based on tire size. Obviously, very rarely do two tires of the same size need the exact same weight to balance. I bet you could get them to balance if you played around with it, but it would be very aggravating having to break the bead each time to add some until you got it right. Plus, the beads are very expensive to experiment with.