Dyna Beads and Ride-On Dynamic Balancing

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Apr 10, 2020 | 06:24 AM

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Jackie Paper

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Originally Posted by cggorman

Working fine on my 5.5"/180 rear and 4.5"/150 front. Weights are inside the rim, under the rim strip. Held tight by the inflated tube.

Static balance does not work as well as dynamic balance if the heavy spots are not in the same plane and angle. What I was thinking.

You guys surely hate the look of weights. Never realized this.

I static balanced and rotated tires for years with good enough results for my cars. Old age and Costco solved that silliness.

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Apr 10, 2020 | 10:15 AM

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Speed balancing is definitely better. Road force is better yet. I'm not aware of anybody doing Road Force on Moto wheels, tho.

I attribute some of my success to extremely careful wheel truing and repeated checking of the static balance as I added components. Took a long time. Was planning to get it close with weights and then add some Ride-On to finish it right. Never needed to add the Ride-On.

Apr 10, 2020 | 10:35 AM

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I remember balancing Auto tires on the car which of course took in consideration all rotating parts using two different systems.

I think one was a Stewart Warner system with a motor to spin the wheel/tire assy, a "pick-up" placed under the suspension, and a Strobe light

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Apr 10, 2020 | 02:00 PM

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Makes a lot of sense, Mike. Probably too expensive and slow to stay viable.

I've had three cars that were extremely sensitive to imbalance and/or out-of-true rotating assemblies (brake, tire, wheel, hub, etc.) An on-chassis balancer would have been very welcome by me for those cars. Spent a lot of time shimming and clocking rotors and wheels and taking extreme care with mating face cleanliness and torque procedures/values.

Apr 10, 2020 | 03:24 PM

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Btw Tarik, if you end up using Beads, make sure you get the applicator bottle/hose (or an equivalent). If you get frustrated trying to get the beads through the valve stem ... come back

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Apr 10, 2020 | 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by multihdrdr

Btw Tarik, if you end up using Beads, make sure you get the applicator bottle/hose (or an equivalent). If you get frustrated trying to get the beads through the valve stem ... come back

Oh, don't worry... I'm sure I'll be back!!!

I actually ordered a couple of bottles of Ride-On. For whatever reason, the slower moving gel seemed to make sense to me. We'll see!

I never rebalanced my front wheel after the rotor swap. Possibly in my mind (and possibly something entirely different), but the front wheel hasn't felt properly "in balance" to me ever since (though certainly not terrible). It's supposed to arrive tomorrow, so hopefully I can provide a report sometime soon.