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12-14-2009, 10:22 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Phoenix
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|  BB's as wheel weights ?
Can you use BB's as wheel weights? I borrowed a set of tries from a friend and they are loaded with BB's - seems to work pretty good and they sound cool  Thanks... |
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12-14-2009, 10:25 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: My Old Kentucky Home....
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A lot of people use them.
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12-14-2009, 10:34 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: talladega AL.
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Lead stick on weights are better. The ones used to balance real car tires. You can buy them from your local tire repair shop. BBs will work but they move around & eventually wear on your foams & cause the foams to not work as well.
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12-14-2009, 10:46 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Nunya Idaho...
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bb's suck, the might not move around as fast as the tire so you get to bouncing from them staying in one spot on stuff where wheel speed is needed. Plus they rust! I ran some in a scaler and ran it in some water, next thing I knew they had rusted and nasty ass water kept staying my wheels.
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12-17-2009, 02:16 PM
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12-17-2009, 02:49 PM
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I ran them in my front tires for a while without the foam but eventually put the stick on weights on the inside of the wheel and the foam back in.
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12-17-2009, 03:07 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Greentown
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I run them in 'pockets' of duct tape that all weigh the same and straped them all around the wheel and they work pretty good.
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12-17-2009, 04:32 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: oregon
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That is a good idea! This way you could fine tune them a little more | |
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12-17-2009, 04:58 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ocean beach, San Diego, CA
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12-17-2009, 05:01 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Huntertown, In
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Tape weights are all I use!!
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12-17-2009, 07:47 PM
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| dnf   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Under a big fkn rock.
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put them on the inside of the tire mounted on the inner rim.they wont come off. and poor boy is right. bb's will inhibit the foams ability and cause the foam to wear. | |
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12-18-2009, 12:54 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Martinsburg WV
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If you're gonna wrap the BB's in something and secure them somehow, you negate the main advantage of BB's and you might as well use stick on wheel weights it would be much easier to accomplish. I gave up on running BB's, you have to cut the foams so there's room for them to roll around otherwise they are useless. That leaves you with foams that have sorry sidewall support and wear out 5 times faster. Stick on wheel weights from the tire shop are the easiest, or wrap your rims with 60/40 solder... | |
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12-18-2009, 01:34 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: four o six
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I do that... | |
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12-19-2009, 09:35 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Gresham
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I bought a losi comp crawler and the wheels are narrow and had a hard time getting my stick on wheel weights to fit right with the foams and all. So I ended up at the fishing tackle department at my local bi-mart and bought of a spool of lead fishing weight. Works great. Bends around the wheel nicely.
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12-19-2009, 08:03 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: In the Bluegrass
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Does putting stick on weights on the inside of the wheel work as good as putting them inside the wheel itself?
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12-20-2009, 09:34 PM
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| dnf Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Under a big fkn rock.
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I take off my tire and run the stick wieghts around the outer diameter of the wheel.then remount the tire. doing it like this my wieght is out of sight=clean,and no chance of the wieghts getting hung up on anything or falling off. | |
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