[JERRY2KONE]

I am working on getting some photos posted up for this. Once you balance a wheel it is good to go, unless you take the wheel apart for some reason or the tire gets torn open. Then you will just have to re-balance it.

The process that I used was first to glue the insert to the rim with a bead of CA glue in each side of the mounting surface. That is just to make sure that that insert does not shift during operation, wich will throw your balancing right out of the window. I then turned the tire inside out and ran a bead of re-enforced packing tape around the center of the tire (X2), which helps prevent balooning. Then you just put the wheel together as you would normally do. Axial beadlock wheels already have holes drilled in the rims to keep the wheels from bouncing too much due to trapped air(like a basketball). The next step is to balance the wheel.

Once you have a good balancer setup it is pretty easy to do. With a shaft assembly attached to the wheel it lays on a set of bearings, and you rotate the wheel slowly to determine where the heavy side is. It will lunge as it rotates forward and even travel backwards eventually settle at the bottom of the cycle. Then you need to attach some kind of counter weight on the inside of the rim opposite to the heavy side as indicated by the rotation test.

I use simple pine car weights that have a sticky back and simply stick them to the inner circumfrence of the rim. Some wheels may take a couple of weights before you reach a perfect balance. When you can spin the wheel gently and it no longer lunges or tries to go backwards, you have reached your goal. You will notice that the wheel now almost travels endlessly and smoothly. For added safety you can also put some hot glue or some other kind of addhesive over the weights to keep them from coming lose and becoming a missle. That would not be good. I hope this helps, and I will work on posting up those photos of my balancer.