I'm just starting my build, all of the parts are in the garage. The tires came in today and I had them mounted on the rims. 33x10.5x15 BFG AT KO's on Pro Comp Rock Crawler black steel wheels, 15x8's.

The picture below shows my "could not wait, acting like a little kid, had to bolt at least one up to the rig to see what it looked like" picture.

You can see that this wheel/tire has two large lead balance weights on it, and there is one medium one on the back.

OK, sorry, just went back out to the garage to see how much weight was on there. They are iron weights. Since when did lead weights go away? They say 2.25 Fe on them. 2.25 oz of iron.


Thanks,

Mike


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Since lead became bad for people, probably.

Anyhow, I just had my BFGs balanced and it took a motherlode of weight to get them to balance. I asked if this was unusual and I was told that the AT/KOs in that size are tougher mofos to get dialed in.

 

If they take a lot of weight, generally you would break down the tire on the rim and rotate it 180 degrees. Re-balance and hope for better.

What do you have, 4.5oz on the outside? Thats not the worst I have seen.

 

Paint them with a black paint pen and they disappear.

 

I got more weight than that on my general grabber AT2s . Beefy tires take lots of weight sometimes.

 

Good point on painting them.

What about the stick on weights on the inside of the rim, rather than the clip on's? Is that a better route for a trail rig? Since the clip on's are liable to get ripped off?

Yes, 4.5 oz on the outside, they look big because they are iron.

Thanks guys,

Mike

 

stick on weights SUCK. you dont want em.

 

^^ +2!!
Keep what you have and paint em. I had my wheels balanced with weights on the outside and inside like you. Went back to the tire place and asked them to balance em with clip on on the back and stick ons on the inside. Made 2 separate trips because truck would shake like crazy. Finally told them to once again balance em with with clip ons in and out. No more shakes. I picked up a can duplicolor wheel paint and made em disappear.

 

I have Definity Dakota AT's on my aluminum rims. The tires are made by cooper (probably blemishes or something) A have 2 that took over 4oz I think on each side of the rim. I did not try to rotate them on the rim and re-balance.

I have maxxis bighorns on my steel wheels which did not take much weight at all. Part of the reason I left the lip of the rim silver was so the weights wouldn't stick out like sore thumbs. I thought I would be pounding weights around half the rim

 

I always have the weights put on the inside. I can't stand seeing a big stack of weights on the outside of the rim. On my car I have always used the stick-on weights and never had a problem with them.

 

I work at a sears auto center and sometimes you have to use lot of weight on truck tires. The reason for the weight is because the wheels can be out of balence. The tires can also be out of balence. Almost any truck tire bigger than a 31 may need more weight because of the why the tires are made. If you have more than 6 oz thats to much for one side of the wheel.

 

Thanks for the reply, that is good info. I have 4.5 oz on the outside of two of the rims/tires. I think the part that is really throwing me off is the size of the weights, since they are iron and not lead.

Thanks guys for all the replies. I will leave them as is right now and paint them. I may have lead weights put on if they really bug me. But I better go quick, as The Peoples Republic of California has banned lead tire weights by the end of 2009. Costco has converted over already.

Thanks again,

Mike

 

i personally think 4.5 is too much i have balanced tons of tires up to 38" and if they are more than 3 i would just rotate and remount and balance they always could be around 2 at most thats much better then in case if your weights do fall off its only 2 oz off not 5 too

 

4.5 oz is not bad at all. i once had to use 15oz on a tire it would not go any lower. but thats what you get when you have a spoiled kid that wants to have Stauns beadlocks installed in some 38" Thornbird TSLs on some fancy "look what my daddy bought me but i want it to ride smooth" i really hated to do it but i had to use stick on weights because he wanted it to look good.