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Topic: Tire balance beads

Posted By: AC7060IL
Subject: Tire balance beads
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2025 at 8:14pm

Just bought 4 new tires for my dually ton truck. I dismounted / mounted all 6 tires myself. Front tires had good thread so removed them from front aluminum rims & mounted them on outer rear aluminum rims. So 2 new steers & 2 new rear inside on steel rims.
Used 4 ounces of glass balance beads inside each tire after removing old lead weights from rims.
Just did a 2000 mile round trip with it towing 32’ gooseneck. Heck of a SMOOTH ride.

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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025 at 5:21am

I know several who use them in motorcycle tires.
I use ride on. It’s a thick liquid .

Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025 at 6:38am

I've got balance beads in two pickups, happy with them.

Posted By: TedN
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025 at 7:14am

I have been using them for a couple years now. Really happy with them, and they got rid of a shifter vibration in my brother's pickup, probably caused by an out of balance brake drum rather than tire.

Ted

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Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025 at 8:35am

Hows that going to work matching used and new tires? I left my worn down spare on for a while with a new tire aside of it and it seemed like it ground the last little bit of tread off it.

Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025 at 8:48am

DanWi wrote:

Hows that going to work matching used and new tires? I left my worn down spare on for a while with a new tire aside of it and it seemed like it ground the last little bit of tread off it.

Fine. Been doing it that way for 25 yrs. The fronts are mostly just cupped on outer edges. Their inside threads are even & probably still 3/4 thread heights. Ford Ton truck is 2wd, so fronts always cup edges first. Mostly interstate/highway driving too. Not much gravel, crowned rock chip, or blacktop roads.