What is the best way to balance tires? Seems from what I read, there are different ways to balance a tire. I am prolly goin back with 35" MT/RK's in place of my 33" MT/KR's when I lift my JK, so my questin is if there are different ways to balance where the weights can be more spread out or on the outside of the wheel. The only bad things I read about MT/KR's was the balancing problems for the most part.

 

You could do balancing beads, or find someone who uses a roadforce balancer. You may have to call around to see who uses them in your area.

 

Thats what I was looking for. I think the same shop I'm gettin my gears put in use's roadforce but not sure. Still undecided on the Trail Grapplers or MT/RK's, but just lookin at my options.

 

I went with the balancing beads in my 37's rockers and they ride great. Best of all you don't need to do any rebalancing later or worry about tearing off a weight.

 

Do the trail grapplers they are a really great tire.

 

I can tell you that my trail grapplers took very little weight to balance. These and Toyos are very round tires, and they ride super smooth on the road.

 

My 35" Toyo Open Country MTs balance up nicely. Not sure what Discount Tire uses but that's where I get 'em balanced.

 

The Discount tire by me has a roadforce machine, but you have to request it and pay a little more. Also a lot shops default to only putting weights on the backside of the rim even if they can't get a perfect balance. I tell them to put the weights exactly where they are needed even if that is on the front side of the rim. A roadforce machine put pressure on the tire to simulate road conditions and also measure two axis. Make sure they are testing at the pressure you run normally. for me that is 26 to 28 not 35.

 

Does any one know if the balancing beads are worth it? I'm getting 35" Duratracs this week and I don't want to have to keep getting them balanced. Or does any one know if these won't need to be balanced as much?

 

I just had my 35" Duratracs mounted today at DT and the number of weights required on two out of the five wheels was staggering. I may have to look into those beads...