Mount and balance your own bead locks!! THIRTY SEVENS!!!!!
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2018
- **Sorry for the poor audio at beginning - totally forgot to remove the gopro from the mount first**
So I had a saying before I turned 35. "35s by 35."
Well... fast forward 14 months and the perfect storm occurred. In my last video we had a misadventure on a 1-1 trail where a downed tree yanked the valve stems out of a friends wheels (two to be exact).
Well... she's been wanting some 35s for a while, so we worked out a deal. And another friend recently went up to 37s on bead locks and it's one of those things you just instantly love and know you have to do.
so here I sit. "37s by 37" and I swore I'd never do it. 37s will be the final destination for this jeep though, as there is no feesable way to put this on anything larger without absolutely trashing the driveline, axles, etc. 37s is pushing it on a Dana 44, but none of us have "skinny pedal disorder."
Needless to say, I knew you can self mount bead locks. And you can self balance bead locks with internal balance media of your choosing.
This video is me mounting my 37 inch Cooper STT Pro tires on KMC Machete XD229 bead locks. I learned a lot in the process, and took my first tire from 2 hours to just under 40 minutes by the time I mounted the 5th/spare tire.
I did have to dismount the ring and pour in 2 more ounces of match grade bbs to balance these out, and also ironically playing with tire pressure the jeep absolutely loves 35 PSI with 12.5 ounces of balance media in them (but wouldn't balance at 25 PSI at all). I can run the entire speed range and make wide corners with no issue (the tires re-balance immediately).
Enjoy the video of self mounting 37s on bead locks! You really can do it! Be patient, make sure you center the ring correctly, and torque everything to spec!
I'll wheel these this summer and post a follow-up at some point.
Stay tuned. If you like what you see here, hit that subscribe button as I have a lot of weekend getaways planned this summer, and we're gonna try really hard to make the jeep trips more into a vlog style than dashcam style. - Авто та транспорт
Right-on Justin, good work. It was interesting to see a different style of beadlock go together. 👍
Super helpful video, beadlocks are and awesome upgrade!
I found that 25 psi, was perfect. 37x12.50x15 Rockers, on 15x8 ( NOT headlocks ) with 8oz’s of airsoft bb’s , I’ve been running them for almost 7 years, @ 70 miles round trip daily, and wheeling them, at least two or three times a month, 04 Tj 4.0L sport, with 4:88’s, OX LOCKERS, Rubicon 44’s, with 33 spline Alloy axels. Love the videos.
When I installed mine I bought the gallon of tire lube at Advanced Auto Parts.
And I used it like it was free. The more the better. On the tire beads. On the wheel itself. I even put some on my junk just to be safe (not really). I also used some small pieces of 2x4 on the ground and laid the tire/wheel assembly on it. I found when hitting the bead on while on top of the bucket the bucket moves and dissipates the force of your dead blow. So having the tire on the ground lets all of the dead blows force go into the bead pushing it onto the lip of the beadlock. Then once the ring was on I tossed the assembly onto the bucket to let the bottom bead slip down into the rear bead of the wheel to make a seal so when it comes time to air up it pops that bead on easily. I also slapped some more lube on the rear part of the barrel just before airing up so that when pressure started to build the bead would slide over the bead easily.
Lubrication is the key, SOAPY WATER has always worked best for me.
for more than just tires
Nice tires they are what I had on my 98 jeep
I purchased a 2017 JKU Rubicon preowned. It already has a lift on it and running the Cooper 37's like yours on ATX bead lock wheels. I've never had bead lock wheels on a vehicle before (or owned a jeep for that matter). My question is driving them on the roads. I use the jeep to drive around town, as well as driving out of state on trips. Is this ok? Do the bead locks require any regular maintenance? Thanks for any help.
bead lock wheels on the highway is a sticky situation. there are DOT approved versions, but most are not. not because they were denied, rather they were not tested and approved. with the amount of look alike bead locks out there, most highway patrol don't know how to distinguish them while you are driving highway speeds, and it's a waste of time to pull over every vehicle with a lock ring to see if it's decorative or not. you will need to air down to 0 and check your ring bolt torque a few times a year, but i never saw mine back off at all.
I usually just hit the tire on the wheel with a rubber dead blow
The Coopers have been coming like that since they switched to production in China. We never had the issue when we got them from the Findlay OH plant.
Interesting!!
My Cooper evolution mt’s say made in USA
Potatoe peeler. :)
Having those pellets... do you hear it when cruising at slow speeds?
no they place themselves in the low spots at about 15-20 mph. now if you mean under 5, yes you hear them lol! you also get weird looks making all that noise.
Howd the airsoft bbs work I didnt have any luck with them?
It was so close to being perfect. Problem is the large volume of them can't pack tight enough. I switched to dynabead and they balance 99% of the time. 1% I have to hit a hard bump to force them to move and then they are good.
Can someone post that website mentioned in the video? I tried different ways of spelling and can’t seem to find it.
www.innovativebalancing.com/ is where i bought dynabeads at.
Great show. How much would an off road tire shop charge?
About $100 per tire mounting
Those are the bead locks I want, but damn...the price went up by $100 a rim....
Man that sucks!
@@JustinKingOffroad I ended up going with the KMC XD232 beadlocks.
i got same tire brand but i run 35's, i'll stick to 35's for a long time, unless i go off roading multiple times and change to bead locks(maybe)
so i have a JLUR now that came dealer modified with 2 inch mopar lift and 35s, i did one of the tougher trails in northern colorado and hit the bottom just a couple times, mostly because i was pulling my offroad trailer up with me. (there is a video). but i'm seriously thinking about staying with 35s on this rig. it drives so good right now.
@@JustinKingOffroad When I bought a jeep and the seller had 35's on I was a bit cautious because I didn't have much knowledge on how good they are while driving. Long story short, mine are soft tires for daily commute and they are quiet and roll easy. Mine is 2 1/2 inch lift as well, perfect fit, I love it.
Also, I've watched a ton of your videos during my night shift at the hospital, whole 8 hours, guess you can say.. I binged your rescue operation videos. I enjoyed them! If you want to see my rig(not advertising) look up on Instagram using my name, no spaces lower case, blue jeep Rubicon.
i've been crazy busy with work and have been missing out on recoveries, but there are less in the summer time anyway. once we get into the first snow the action should ramp up a bit.
@@JustinKingOffroad There's plenty more to watch before I run out of videos. I'd like to do that in the future go in groups and help people in the snow(not in the blizzard situation like I saw in one of your videos) and enjoy doing it. Have you done a video(s) of your recovery rig, show what you bring, material etc?
i've got some walkaround of the new JLUR back in may. but an exact layout of what is in the recovery boxes no. might give me something to do.
use soap on the bead !!!!!and real tire spoons
Ran mine at 18-20 psi
More lube on the tire beads would help.
Absolutely. I had never done this before so it was a big learning experience.
Cut the rubber was great. Is that called mold flashing?
I'm not sure
How do you know you need 10oz of BB's ??? I'm new to the bead lock game and going to mount a set of cooper's st Maxx
that was the instructions given from the balance bead company. they worked 99% of the time. ultimately i sucked them out and spin balanced the tires.
@@JustinKingOffroad what happen what made you go the other way ???
inconsistency driving. hit a bump and the balance would be off for a few hundred feet, some times requiring you to pull over.
@@JustinKingOffroad after some more research. On the imiproducts website they said your supposed to be at 8oz not 10oz for a 37" ... Maybe that could have been it???
ultimately two of the tires took more than 8 ounces to balance. so i'd have had to put in almost a pound of weight to get one corrected with beads. beadlocks are known to be difficult to balance.
The regular copper washed steel bbs (not airsoft) work better. They won’t break down.
Nice tires and rims. Love to know what gear ratio your running and how the tire size affected your power. Have a 93 YJ with 33 10.50 15. Had to regear it. I run 20 psi in the front and 25 in rear. Anymore, the front floats real bad and gives me a hard ride. Have a lunch box in the rear, that is why the higher pressure there. Tires are rated for over 12000 lbs at 50 psi. A little math gave me a safe lower end tire pressure of 14 to 17 psi with 2 people, dog and some basic tools. My Jeep tipped the scales at 4000 lbs with 2 people and a Bantam TC-3 trailer. So the Jeep and 2 people weighs in at about 3500 Lbs. I am sure yours is a little heavier.
I did change to 4.88 because looking at rpm charts for this jeep that puts it back to stock at 70 mph (about 2,500 rpm). Granted there is extra weight, you can take off from a stoplight by just letting the clutch out. You feel it, but I can cruise 80 mph no problem. The stt pro are loud at that speed though.
like real tire people slippery stuff
use ivory soap around tyre bead not liquid ivory soap
use soap on the bead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to trim the bevel portion of my Patagonia MTs. They would not fit at all...I don't care how much lube was on it. Beat the hell out of it with a dead blow, used clamps the whole nine yards. The bead should be almost straight down in my opinion for lip of tire to drop around the beadlock rim. I too was iffy about trimming the rubber, but there was no other way.
yep i had to trim the rubber a bit that was leftover from manufacturing. a new utility knife blade made short work out of it. and it has never been a problem.
@@JustinKingOffroad do you have facebook or IG?
i don't do instagram. facebook i keep for friends and family only.
@@JustinKingOffroad cool, no worries...
I thought beadlocks weren't street legal?
there is no law specifically against them in Colorado. But there is nothing granting them either.
@@JustinKingOffroad oh wow I didn't realize that we could run them in CO. I'm in Boulder Area!
check out "Hutchenson Rock Monsters" beadlock. 2 piece rim (plus an internal "wheel"), so you just put the rim thru 1 side and the other part of the rim thru the other side, (the internal wheel goes inside the tire, locks both edges/rims) bolt together and your done. That place and i think 1 other makes DOT compliant beadlocks. If it is good enough for 1st responders and military then I would say it is at least worth looking at?!
with that said, I think as long as you don't cause an accident, then no one cares about your beadlocks rims on the highway