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DRussell

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How critical is it to have the exact recommended weight of beads in a tire to balance it? Can you put too much in and cause the tire to not balance? I put them in the tires on my 2000 F550. I looked up the recommended amount online and If I remember correctly, the website stated 8 oz per tire. I bought the beads at Napa and they didn't have them in 8 oz sizes. All they had was 6 oz bags so I ended up putting 2 bags in each tire. I don't have a scale for weighing in ounces so didn't split up any bags.

At highway speeds, sometimes the truck rides pretty smooth like the tires are in balance. Other times at highway speeds it rides very rough and acts like the tires are not balanced at all. I'm wondering if I have too many beads in causing it to go out of balance as much as being in balance.
 
When it is riding rough, stop, and then go again. This should allow the beads to reposition themselves. If that doesn't help, then I wouldn't know what else to try.

It shouldn't be very difficult to divide a known quantity into three equal parts, to get the 2 0z you needed for the correct amount to be added to each tire.
 
They are inconsistent in action, and sometimes stay off balance rather than fixing it. but work well other times.
I believe in weight type balancing. particularly for correcting balance that is not in the plane of the tire. (wobble rather than bounce). Jim
 
That's what I've always done with other trucks. I took these to get them balanced, but they were too big. That's why I ended up going with the beads. I'll have to find a place that can balance bigger tires.
 
It might have called for 10 oz per tire instead of 8. Either way I didn't divide them. I put two 6 oz bags in each tire.
 
Too much won't hurt. Used them on my semi and found that I needed twice the recommended amount to work well. On those tires 12 oz would be minimal.
 
That's what I was wondering, whether too many beads caused as much harm as good. My tires are 245/70-19.5.
 
I don't bother with balancing tires. They last the same and ride the same either way. Good tires don't need balancing and poor tires will not stay balanced. Besides what about all the stones picked up in the tread on new tires. Your fastened weights just got skewed so why bother you can't pick the stones out of the tread as you drive. I've tried weights junk in the tire ans even had a set of hula hoops on the steers. when all was said and done could not tell the difference on them anyway. I've even had them spin balance them on the vehicle.
 
I basically quit running balanced tires too when they started charging so much for mount and balance. I mount them myself and run them. Started running cooper tires also.
 
The tire shop put them in my tires the last time and it took a few weeks to get them so they wouldnt go out of balance now they are fine
 
Beads won't fix lateral imbalance. If you ever had a wheel with a bunch of weight on one side, and not much on the other side, that is lateral imbalance. Beads also wont fix mechanical weight imbalance, like separated belts, bent rims, out of round or malformed tires.

To some extent, a HD/commercial tire on a lighter vehicle will have less positive results from using balance beads. I know it's a f-550 but it's still on the light end for 19.5's. I'm not saying they won't work, just not as effective. Choppy roads, sectioned concrete or inconsistent surfaces seem to disrupt the balance effect some too and more so on lighter vehicles.
 


For 15 years I was running four trucks. For a good many of those years the tire store was putting balancing beads in all the tires that I bought. We NEVER had an out of balance tire. NEVER. If I had been putting it in a tire and it called for eight oz. I would have put in just one bag and been two ounces off instead of four.
 
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