Death wobble woes

7slotMT said:
Happy to report that it seems like tires were the issue. I think I may still upgrade the joints in the axle to johnny joints because at $75 a piece, might as well. After messing with caster a bit I might drop it back from 6 to 5.5 or 5 since I have a slight drive line vibe still. First time I have gone over 50mph in months😂.

So another question, I will be switching to 35s (sitting in the garage) once I swap my 9 inch in soon. What's the consensus on balancing beads? I have a buddy who runs them on his 39s and loves them, but I have never used them personally or dealt with them in the tire shop as they are not exactly corporate kosher.
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CounterAct or balancing beads, may and may not work!

I have only used them in tires that were 38" and taller, they did an ok job on those.

35" tires should be able to be weight balanced as long as the person knows what they are doing.
 
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My tire man put beads in my 35's because he said that they didn't want to balance with weights. They didn't work that well for me. Sometimes they were perfect and other times they just didn't settle in the right spot. Took them out and put weights on and all is good now. Just my limited experience.
 
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7slotMT said:
Happy to report that it seems like tires were the issue. I think I may still upgrade the joints in the axle to johnny joints because at $75 a piece, might as well. After messing with caster a bit I might drop it back from 6 to 5.5 or 5 since I have a slight drive line vibe still. First time I have gone over 50mph in months😂.

So another question, I will be switching to 35s (sitting in the garage) once I swap my 9 inch in soon. What's the consensus on balancing beads? I have a buddy who runs them on his 39s and loves them, but I have never used them personally or dealt with them in the tire shop as they are not exactly corporate kosher.
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Ballancing beads work, but you have to work with them. Different materials might work differently so my experience might be different than others. In my Jeep using airsoft pellets to ballance 37" swampers the beads worked perfectly if I took off from a stop nice and gentle and generally drove in a straight line until up to speed. If I took off really hard and got up to speed quickly the beads took a little longer to ballance and the tires would shake a bit. Also if I took off and accelerated while turning, say left across a large intersection, sometimes the tires would shake until the beads figure out where they need to be. And lastly, at highway speeds if I hit a large bump sometimes the tires would shake for a little bit, but not every bump. Easy enough to correct for, just let off the gas and coast for a few seconds then accelerate smoothly. Overall the beads worked for me, but sometimes were a pain in the arse. I highly recommend getting your tires ballanced propperly over running bead ballancing, that way you can just drive your Jeep and not worry about it.
 
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John Cooper said:
Average life is actually more like 6-7 years. Most tires shops don't want to mess with tires much over 7.

If a tire has no signs of dryrot, cracks or been run flat I don't worry to much about it.
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We recommend them at 4 years because they start to harden so even with great tread and no dry rot you'll notice they break traction easily on wet surfaces.

But that's up north here where we see a lot of snow/rain and ice it really matters you really don't wanna cheap out on the things that hold you to the road, not up north anyways. I can see 10 years being fine in warmer climates.
 
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