The M1031 with 5" lift, 12-bolt H1's and no spacers build!

[Abbylind]

Ingenius! I love it! Are you going to use beads to balance them?

Fowler

 

[tvguy]

Ingenius! I love it! Are you going to use beads to balance them?

Fowler

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.

 

[tvguy]

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?

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.

 

[tvguy]

I finished mounting the last two tires today . . . stretched the o-ring, placed it in the "channel" and then mounted the outer ring. After torquing 48 bolts over and over and over again I had a blister to show for my work.

 

[tvguy]

My front driveshaft was in good shape but I wanted to replace the stock 1310 slip yoke with a 1350. I included a shot of the old yoke next to the new one. I didn't have to lengthen the tube and I didn't have it balanced either.

 

[tvguy]

The new 32-spline input shaft for the LoMax 205 came in today along with the twin stick kit . . .

 

[tvguy]

So I took the "new" set of 37's to have them balanced. Two balanced out pretty well and two didn't. In fact, one is unuseable. The run-out is so bad it beats you death.

I noticed on this set of wheels that they have a matching hole in the inner and outer ring. My old set didnt have this. On the first two tires I mounted I offset the hole on the inner wheel 180 degrees from the valvestem, and on the outer wheel 90 degrees. These two wheels balanced fine.

On the other two I aligned the hole and neither one of these balanced as you can see from all the weights. Is this a concidence, or did I mess up?

 

[Stonepicker1]

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.

 

[tvguy]

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.

That makes sense, it's odd though that the ones I DIDN'T align balanced and the ones I did align didn't.

 

[dstang97]

It's for the ctis. Line then up as best as you can.

 

[tvguy]

Is there an alignment tool?

 

[TCUCV]

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

 

[tvguy]

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

What did you do to "realign it"? Did you just eyeball it or use some sort of tool to make sure it was centered?

 

[TCUCV]

By align I mean matching the two holes up on the wheel.

It is a little weird that the two wheels that didn't have the matching holes ended up balancing out with the weights.

 

[truck1]

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!

 

[TCUCV]

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!

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.

 

[tvguy]

I checked the runout on the two worst wheels. One was 110 thousands out and the other 120. I'm thinking this is more a case of bent wheels than misalighment . . . ?

 

[tvguy]

I got the LoMax 205 torn down so I can have the case bored. Everything looked good . . . no surprises.

 

[truck1]

So they are combat rims ,similar to the old jeep rims.Got it!Makes perfect sense.

 

[tvguy]

I ended up buying some of the pilot washers for the wheels. I broke down the two rear wheels last weekend to install them, and ended up swapping the inner wheel on one (it was too out-of-round). I'm hoping to get the pilot washers installed on the front wheels this weekend.

I also dropped off the LoMax 205 at a machine shop to get the case bored for the 32-spline input shaft.

The more I drive it the more I think I'm going to have to adjust the rear pinion angle, but I'll have a better idea once all the tires are done and I can getter a better feel for the truck with the tires "balanced" (or as balanced as they're gonna get!).