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Tire Balancing Powder
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Tire Balancing Powder
I'm trying this again...wondering if anyone else ever tried it before (in a light truck tire)?? There are many brands...Equal, CounterAct, Magnum, etc. Did you have good results?

I used this in a set of Michelin LTX/AS on my 99 2500...had right near 100k on those tires when I traded, they still had 1/4 of the usable tread left. The balance was great with 3 ounces of [whatever] powder they used in each tire...the powder was installed when the tires were three months old. I had been having issues with the rims spinning inside the tires because of the metals strips at the PA turnpike booths. I remember the balancing being great, and the only weirdness was when you encountered a large "bump", you would lose the balance for a moment, and then it would smooth right back out.

I just had the tires on my 04.5 conventionally balanced last Saturday and out of probably 12 wheel weights, I only had three left (on two tires) when I got home! Needless to say, I had a slight vibration for almost 1500 miles. Driving cross country, even a slight imbalance is very annoying and tiresome.

I have had about 32 ounces of Equal sitting here for around three years for another project. So I went to Cabelas and bought a powder funnel (the type used for reloading shells) and starting pulling tires from the truck today. I pulled the valve cores (one tire at a time), measured out three ounces of powder, and began trickling it into the tires through the valve stem...took about 4 hours from start to finish. I did have the filtered valve stems for use with the powder (that is a key element).

I ran out of time, and didn't even get the tires filled back up...so I wasn't able to take a test drive, but I don't expect anything bad. Although they don't list the smaller passenger tire sizes, I'm considering trying this in the tires on my Outback (just to experiment).
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