How does it drive on the road? Assisted steering?
How does it drive on the road? Assisted steering?
92 YJ
04 F-150 4x4
11 F-250 4x4
No assist yet but that will come before the month is over.
I have a VERY slight wobble in the front end at 35 but once i get to 40 it is gone. I am on the other hand having a real bad hop in the ass end over 55 MPH, that I have no clue what is causing so I will have to start looking into that. My springs are rated for a lot higher weight than I currently have (I stripped the truck down to do all the work), so once I get it loaded back down I am going to have to see what happens to the hop.
Did you state if you used some type of dynamic balancer or not? I know you don't want to hear this if you didn't, but break them back down and throw a few golf balls in. That thing is too nice to not be able to drive down the road.
Originally Posted by Fredo
My bitch better have my money...
Through rain, sleet, or snow...
My whore better have my money...
Not half, not some, but all my cash...
'Cause if she don't,
I'm gonna put my foot in her ass.
Yeah I threw 12 Oz. of Dyna Beads in each tire.
Ok, good, hopefully it's just a small flat spot on the tires that will work it self out, or just a light truck on the 'heavy' suspension.
My bitch better have my money...
Through rain, sleet, or snow...
My whore better have my money...
Not half, not some, but all my cash...
'Cause if she don't,
I'm gonna put my foot in her ass.
Had the same hop on the Military tires, so I am going to narrow my thoughts to suspension at this point. I wish I had some balanced 37's to try in the back just to check things out.
they will still wooble, the only way to get that on the go balancing shiat to work is if you accelerate at a slow steady speed from every stop and its still marginal. we tried every possible way we could think of to get ours to balance (hutchinsons on h-1) ended up having them shaved by a big rig tire place
What is involved with this shaving you speak of? I am unfamiliar with it.
Deliberately removing rubber from the tread of the tire to make them perfectly round. Same ultimate goal as ballancing but more practical for bigass tires.
On the 8th day god created the Super Swamper TSL and said "go forth and kick ass"
they put the fully assebled wheel on a machine that checks the run-out(wobble) at speed and they shave the tread where needed. there are also heavy boot type thingys that they put on the inside if it's really fawked. beadlocks really are not meant to be balanced and all of these fixes really are only good till the tire wears a little or looses a lug or two and it just as bad as before. first thing I would do is find the worst one and flop it 180 on the rim. that low speed wobble you have is probably the balancing beads in the tire bunched up at first then as u speed up they disperse to where they are needed(that's how our centramatics worked).
Last edited by tigweld; 03-15-2010 at 04:26 PM.
Hmm, got ya. Thanks for the explanation, never knew they did that on big rig tires. I am going to be loading up the ass of the truck tonight for my run to K-Rocks this weekend so I will continue to see what I can do to help get the hop out of it.
Truck looks really good Chris!
The disco ball in my mouth, insinuates I'm ballin'
Here is the best pic I could get with the cell phone of the new tires John. Also a little before and after I found from close to the same spot...
i like it. looks mean
Red 81 CJ5, 35's, 4.10 and detroit, 4 to 1 dana 300, tbi efi, flat belly, cage, chromos and auzzie in front... sometimes runs. body damage to come
+1,
'73 J2000 Thriftside Gladiator, 258/T14/D20
'81 CJ7 Laredo, 258/T176/D300
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