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has anyone seen this tire balancing stuff
http://www.innovativebalancing.com/service.htm
i've never heard of using beads instead of weights...
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02-22-2007, 09:27 AM
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I can't imagine how they would be able to get a proper balance by driving it around.
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02-22-2007, 10:48 AM
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they claim (claim being the operative word) it just finds where it needs to be and that kawasaki, among others, use it stock.
that said, i thought the exact same thing you did.
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I had a tire on one of my wreckers (23,000gvw) out of balance, a shop talked me into tring this. It worked sometimes and sometimes it would make it worse, it would just about jump off the ground at times. Their is no substitute for a good balance job. Find a shop that uses a balancer that hold the tire by the lugs and not through the center hole. I had a problem with my p/u truck, I had one shop tell me I had a bent rim, another shop tried to alance it and made it worse. A shop I tow for told me he would fix it, he used the balancer that held the rim by the lug bolts. You would not believe the difference.
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we used it in a shop i worked in down in fl.it was junk then,im sure it still is.the rep said it would seek out the low spots insinde the tire and fill them while rotating.
amazing what service mngrs will buy into.
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That **** wont work, Just think about the idea it only gonna go to the low spot on the inside of the tire, YOU need a dynamic BALANCE that does both inside and out side on both sides of the tire, NOTHING will ever replace wheel weights, AT WORK we have a top of the LINE HUNTER balancer that I think rocks, It can do soooo much it can also hide weights behind spokes and it can tell you if a tire is out of round or if the rim is bent its really cool, IF you got a good balancer and someone who knows what to look for and what they are doing then you should be fine
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I agree with all of the above, although I have seen off road buggies use a litre of water to compensate for little misshaps while off road racing.
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