Balancing MT tires or any other aggressive tire seems to be a hit or miss kind of thing so before I gave any real thought of going to a bigger MT i wanted to look into balancing issues. I came across a Centramatic Wheel Balancers I have never heard of these before and was wondering if any of you guys have or do use them? the idea seems perfect but I dont know much about it and maybe im missing something.

http://www.mrtruck.net/centramatic.htm

Check them out tell me what you guys think. If i hear some good things i think ill get some when i get new tires.

 

it sounds like a cool idea, but i dont really understand how they work, or know if they work. if they did work that would be pretty sweet.

 

Here is the main site that ahs videos and explains how they work. Im liking what i see just like ot know how easy they fit on our rigs.

http://www.centramatic.com/

 

at $200 i would wait to see what someone who actually has them says, you cant trust what is said on their website for some of this information, like 50% increase in tire life, i dont think so. it could turn out to be like the tornado intake things. their claims just seem a bit outrageous to me, but maybe thats just me.

 

I have heard about them as well. From what I gather, it's a great idea. A lot of guys have even started making their own type things, but instead just put small, round BB's in the tire. I remember coming across a formula of sorts that people were using to figure out how many (in weight) BB's to use per tire, but i don't remember exactly. It varied on tire size and weight, etc. These work just with simple physics, but at low (very low) speeds, they are not able to balance, because the force isn't strong enough to move the BB's or balls up the wheels to the proper position. At higher speeds though, they do. -Just what I know, but wait for some first hand experience.

-Chris

 

you could also try looking up balance beads...i think thats what they're called anyway. I've heard good things about em on the bigger mt's that are hard to balance

 

Roger (4crawler) uses them:
http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTri...ce/index.shtml

 

I tried 2 different weights of air soft pellets and neither worked well for me. This was in a 33" Cooper STT. I thought about using equal tire balancing crap next time around but not sure if the humidity would effect it to much.

Aaron

 

Here's my test of Equal:
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f2/e...failure-55775/

 

Ah hah it is I knew it. I wasn't impressed with the air soft pellets either. I'm going to stick with lead weights and if I lose one wheeling well I'll just have the damn tires balanced.


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Aaron

 

I still think the best route is stick on weights. I know they can come off, but at least they wont thrash your rim or tires like the clamp on lead ones can and do.

 

Seems like these would be good to fine tune basic lead weights seeing as how they are on the fly balancing they should react to small things like pebbles or mud in the tires from wheelin seems like a good idea. Not to mention 4cralwer used them with good results...I think ima look into how these fit for my 4runner and give them a shot on my next set of tires... 200 bucks to get some xtra life out of my tires as well as ride quality on all my future sets of rubbers seems like a small investment....