Tire Balancing... Is it nessacary for crawling?

[Krawlin]

I was looking at some tips on some random RC websites, and alot of these offroad racers balance their tires. I have never done that with any other vehicles, but I was just wondering if anyone in the crawling world balances their tires. And if so, what kind of added performance does it come with? Any info appreciated. Thanks. ;-)"thumbsup"

-Chris

 

[666]

I just keep wrapping lead for balancing real car tires on my crawlers tires, for some reason it never seems to balance out?

 

[ROSS]

no its not entirely necessary....cause your never going to balloon a tire enough to distroy your drive lines....just dont go over board on puting weights on your wheels..like dont out 120 grams in one spot and none on the flipside...

 

[666]

no its not entirely necessary....cause your never going to balloon a tire enough to distroy your drive lines....just dont go over board on puting weights on your wheels..like dont out 120 grams in one spot and none on the flipside...

Is that why it is so jumpy?

 

[EeePee]

Do we need to invent 1/10th scale weights for balancing?

 

[DeaDShorT]

Beer caps work good...

Beer me!"thumbsup"

 

[shutupanddrive]

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but a thread asking a question like this should be in the Newbie section. or at least Tires and Wheels!

 

[The Muscle]

Hey why not balance your wheels. It might give a slight gain in performance, and nothing like trying to eak out every little bit of performance you can get."thumbsup"

 

[RcRC Olympiad]

:shock:wow hail no you dont have to ballance them!!

 

[rockbound]

we dont spin the tires fast enough for any sort of balancing to have any effect! we aren't racing we are crawling!
you can weight the tires/wheels for better traction but balancing them would do nothing in my opinion.

i never even balance my tires on my real crawler or even in our comp buggy when we competed.

 

[Mikekx65]

In the crawling world we weight not balance. "thumbsup"

 

[mrpink]

I took my set of 2.2 beadlocks into Tire Discounters to have them balanced. They pulled out a 1/10 tire balancer and 1/10 wheel weights. Charged me $29.95. Now I dont get any shimmy at highway speeds. Crawls the same though.

 

[Usmc8541]

I took my set of 2.2 beadlocks into Tire Discounters to have them balanced. They pulled out a 1/10 tire balancer and 1/10 wheel weights. Charged me $29.95. Now I dont get any shimmy at highway speeds. Crawls the same though.

Same here, and MUCH less road noise, and MUCH less tread wear.
I did it at Tire Kingdom though.:lol:

 

[Big Mike]

mr. pinks very amusing tale actually says it all - balancing wheels is a high-speed necessity (although I've never heard of RC racers doing it) but it doesn't matter on a low wheelspeed application like a crawler...

 

[_BEN_]

we don't spin the tires fast enough for any sort of balancing to have any effect!

"thumbsup" At 90% of the speeds the average crawler tire hardly creates any centrifugal force. So balancing would be literally useless.

Unless you had some huge weight bias and if that is the case the corrective action would not involve balancing rather a close inspection and proper re assembly.

But if you must balance. This is what they use. Golf club swing weights. They are delicate and small enough to balance any abnormalities in our small light weight wheels.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Pre-Cut-Lead-Ta...oryZ1514QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
If you want to add weight to your wheels for the sake of adding weight this is not what you want.