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Ingenius! I love it! Are you going to use beads to balance them?
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I thought about trying the balance beads but decided against it. I'm going to TRY and have them balanced, probably with the stick-on lead weights. I know they won't balance out completely but hopefully it will be better than nothing.Ingenius! I love it! Are you going to use beads to balance them?
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4" springs and a Zero Rate. I'm guessing the stockers were 2" and these are 4 1/2", so that gives me 2 1/2" more inches (with the lift). I'd be surprised if I ever hit them but they're there just in case.4" springpack on the front? Looks like not much travel - do you need all that amount of bumpstop (looks like about 2.5" of solid rubber when compressed) to prevent metal/metal contact somewhere?
That makes sense, it's odd though that the ones I DIDN'T align balanced and the ones I did align didn't.For the second generation Rims they uses a hole in both the wheel and flange for a centering tool. So I think the holes have to be aligned.
What did you do to "realign it"? Did you just eyeball it or use some sort of tool to make sure it was centered?I have the same wheels and one of the wheels didn't have the holes lined and caused my truck to go into a death wobble. Ever since I realigned it the truck has been 100% better.
Everywhere I have researched this says to align the holes, I've used the balancing beads on my last set of tires and they worked pretty good. Right now I have nothing in my 37's but it gets a little bumpy for me around 45-50
You can run them with or without runflats, I don't have them in mine. The 12 bolt wheels aren't beadlocks. They were designed so anyone could change a flat tire if needed by taking off the outer part of the wheel. They do seem a little harder to balance, but the beads worked for mine as well.I like the idea of run flats, the beadlock rims, and the cool look,but they seem hard to balance and not practical for every day use.I used stock 16.5 GM 8- 1/4" rims with the 37"surplus humvee radials.They balanced quite well with 1 bag of beads per tire.No wobble or shimmy @ highway speed and no wheel weights.After 4K miles they seem to be wearing evenly.Please post pics when you get them all mounted-they look great!