Nate's 2002 TJ, Not so simple anymore by gst95dsm

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I had a chance to balance my new Raceline's today at work. I read a lot on here about how hard it is to find someone to balance big tires / beadlocks and how hard it is to find someone to do it right! Here's a few tips that may lead to more success.  

First of all you want them to use Pin plates. This aligns the wheel assembly on the balancer using the bolt holes as well as a cone. Not just a cone which is what we use on 90% of everything. This will align the wheel more precisely and give a better balance. This is pretty important, especially since not many of us use hub centric rings, therefore making our wheels Lug centric, which technically they are not.  

Now on wheels with less than 3.5" of backspace that you don't want or there's no place to use weights on the outside of the rim your only real option is to do a "static" balance with tape weights in the center of the rim. This should give the best results. If you tried to do a dynamic balance with so little rim width behind the hub the two readings would just simply counter balance each other and you'd have to use a TON of weight.  

Mine balanced out pretty easy, one only took 1 ounce, I found that suspicious but went with it. One took 8 ounces, a little high in my book, and typically I would have spun the tire 180 and tried again but with a beadlock, I wasn't gonna loosen all those bolts. haha. The other two took around 3.5 ounces and that's what I would want the average to be on something like this. I see a lot of guys throwing 8oz. of dynabeads in there wheels...... that would have been excessive on all but one of mine. Just something to think about.  

I must say that I spin a lot of aftermarket wheels and I'm usually pretty amazed by how much run out they have even brand new but these Racelines were incredibly true.  



Notice the pin plate.



Eeek that's a lot! It zero'd out so I'll run with it!