Greetings, I've read a bit about putting airsoft pellets inside the tire to balance and not using wheel weights. Have you heard of this? Ever done it?

Some guys actually use BBs like you'd use in a BB gun.

Richard

I've tried that before as well as the weighted fluid. (can't remember the product names) Neither one worked on swampers... they were pretty square and nothing really made them ride ok.

-Eric

I have never heard of this, However if you want heavy thick tires to be balanced properly, the best way is to have them balanced "statically" and not "dynamically". The difference is that most vehicles have their tires balanced dynamically which means the balancer measures run out on two points of the wheel making the balance more refined. To statically balance (which I recommend for off-road vehicles with big tires) the balancer measures center run out. This means that it measures the center most point of the wheel instead of two different points (inner and outer edges). On big off-road tires you don't need side to side run out compensation because the heavy weight of the tires usually keeps the imbalance at the center of the wheel. This can be done with both stick on weights and clamp on weights. BB's I wouldn't bet my life on it...

Hope to here from a few people who've tried them.

 pellets, BB's, golf balls, fluid, all accomplish the same effect

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I come across guys saying they do this on Pirate pretty often. Since if you blow a bead and have go remount your tires on the trail i never run lead weights on offroad tires, even on the road. Plus i feel zuks can get away with unbalanced tires better than heavy rigs, but thats not been proven.

 BB's are steel so that's a non starter for the corrosion issues that they will cause.
Pellet weights work well on off road rigs for all of the reasons listed by chromag.
 I have run them for many years on my dedicated off road tires.
I run lead on my DD skins though.

i feel zuks can get away with unbalanced tires better than heavy rigs, but thats not been proven.

 Don't you believe it. Short wheel base light rigs are much more susceptible to un balanced tires causing poor to disastrous driving conditions.......

BB's are steel so that's a non starter for the corrosion issues that they will cause.

If the car is regularly driven there will never be corrosion as the steel is acting like shot blast--if anything you will have all polished surfaces...

As I am too cheap to buy balance beads I suppose I would try the airsoft pellets or golf balls first.

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I balanced a couple sets of 36s with lead shot. It works good,  but I did get slight vibrations when accelerating or decelerating at speed. Nothing bad, but it is something that happens.

I had 33" Boggers on my Sami and used golf balls to balance. Work ok for back roads, geared to low for interstate, RangerRick

Thanks I used 5oz Air Soft pellets. on 220X15 seem to work well, slight vibration at 60mpr.

Thanks I used 5oz Air Soft pellets. on 220X15 seem to work well, slight vibration at 60mpr.

Excellent. How much pellets did you buy?
Where did you get them?

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Wife bought them at Kmart, in the sports/camping section.