Cetramatics or Spin Balancing?

As long as your not running "lug pattern" the Centro's will do their job anywhere you put them.

As stated,if your rubber is in good shape the tires dont need to be "new",but on a steer application I would spin them and make sure their true before adding the Centro's.

 

When I put new steers on the last time their spin balancer was broke so they talked me into trying the beads in the tire. Best thing I ever did. tires now have over 100,000 and still are smooth with no cupping.
The Centro's work on the same principle so I would have to say go for it.
If your tire's are spin balanced you need to have them re-balanced every 50,000 miles or so because as the tire wears it will throw off the original balance then you start to get uneven wear and the cupping starts.
Plus with the beads or Centro's if you get say some dried mud in the rim they will compensate for it, where having just a balanced tire wont.

 

The tires slip on the rim??? Explain to me how that works?

REDD, if you've already got wheel hop, I don't think Centramatics will cure that. I think they're great on steers, but I've tried them on drives to fix a wheel hop and they didn't do it. You're shocks are OK and its not bushings either?

 

For the wheel hop on the drives I'd check the shocks...They're usually the most neglected part of the suspension on heavy trucks.

 

slip 1 (slp)v. slipped, slip·ping, slips
v.intr.
To slide out of place; shift position




that help?

 

Yeah, I know the definition of the word slip, Webster. I'm just extremely skeptical that a heavy truck tire can slip any noticeable amount when mounted on a rim with 100 psi holding it against the beads. Why do some tire companies bother with putting that little dot where the valve stem should go when mounted?

Feel free to educate me on this, I have a lot to learn.

 

I'll try.....use the word squirm instead of slip.

Watch a set of drive tires on another truck at the truck stop or shipper/receiver....it's difficult to watch yours from where you sit!!!!!!!

Under acceleration, turning, backing, etc etc etc.

Tires move(or squirm) on the rims...maybe not much, but they still move a bit....simple as that.

 

All I can say is BS. If u disagree then mark your tire and check it in a month and then tell me how much it slipped. If what u say is true then what keeps the rim from spinning in the tire when my KW peaks at 1850 trq pulling a hill? Or stopping 80,000 pounds?

 

I've already had and won this argument....A buddy of mine told me a couple of years ago that tires slipped on the rim and went out of balance. I told him that was nonsense, So we marked a rim and tire on my truck and checked it every week for a couple of months and to his surprise it never moved.

My truck has a 525 in it so it has enough power to do it if it can be done...