I put some 36" swampers on my trail toy today and figured I'd not balance them since it's trailered on the street to the hard trails. I do drive it to the local trails and I found out tonight that they are definitly out of balance. I read here about someone using bb's in the tire to help it balance on the street. My question is, how many bb's?

Use golf balls. maybe 4 for a 36. Never heard of bbs.

I've never done it before but i have heard of it being done. when i get my 38s i plan on havin the tire shop throw em on a balancer and see how much lead it would take to balance em, then just use that weight or a little more in BB's. I think it should work, but since i've never done it i cant say for sure.

Dallas

The idea of using an amount of BB's equal in weight to the normal lead that would be required will likely cause you to use quite a few more BBs than required.

My 36" TSL required 40+oz regular lead.

I get by quite well with about 8-9 oz BBs (which is approx. 750) but will throw in up to 12 oz next time I have them apart.

You can read a bit about it at:

http://billavista.tripod.com/Beadlocks/Beadlocks.htm

i heard golf balls weigh 1.5 oz a piece and you have to remember that whatever you use will be at the outside of the tire instead of 10 " from it so it won't take as much weight. let us know how it goes

I use tire slime. I find if you add the recommened amount of tire slime for truck tires. you get the puncture proof tire and it self balances, it takes about 7 ounces of slime for a 225 85r 16. so figure up from there. I will say that if you pop a bead with a tire full of slime its a freaking nasty mess. However the plus is, that it seriously reduced side wall flats for me. I have punctured side walls with sticks as big as 3/4 around the tire has sealed.

Beeen seeing this concept thrown around on here for a while. Got an idea for u.

Try it in ur next drive shaft u build.... Self balances?