Shudder at 75mph?

[Gamecock]

Find a shop with a Hunter Road Force balancer. Ditch the balance beads and do the stick on weights.

This is the answer. The FJ is very sensitive to tires that are out of balance, so I had to seek out places that had the Road Force balancer, especially when I had KO2s (hard to balance tires)

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[MaverickMan]

I wouldnt recommend free internal balancing for regular highway use. Centrifugal loads are weird, wheel weights and having the older guy not the 19yo do the balancing at the shop will yield best results.

 

[mbagne]

I wouldn't use balance beads on high mass wheels, personally. I've used them on several motorcycles with decent results, but I wouldn't use them on a heavy off-road wheel/tire.

This is good advice . . .

 

[AK SNO RIDER]

Half your problem could be the absolute trash that are Toyo tires. The other half should be fixable by a good tire shop with a proper balance machine.

 

[AK SNO RIDER]

i generally use 85 pound feet of torque for wheel lugs. if you have a locking lug you may want to leave it a little looser, maybe 50#ft.

Dude, why? That's far under-torqued for most vehicles. Fords, anyway. A Ford ranger is 100 lbs. An F150 is 150lbs. Shoot, my Mustang is 150 +/- 15 lbs as well.

 

[rdass623]

Dude, why? That's far under-torqued for most vehicles. A Ford ranger is 100 lbs. An F150 is 150lbs. Shoot, my Mustang is 150 +/- 15 lbs as well.

check your numbers... if you are torqueing that high you are going to be experiencing hardware failure these are wheel lugs not torque to yield bolts. anything with aluminum wheels will experience damage at the 150 range.

 

[AK SNO RIDER]

check your numbers... if you are torqueing that high you are going to be experiencing hardware failure these are wheel lugs not torque to yield bolts. anything with aluminum wheels will experience damage at the 150 range.

 

[Mr. Nice]

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Carbon fiber wheels...

 

[NC_Pinz]

Only used balance beads once for an off road truck and had no issues at highway speeds. Not sure what everyone's issue is but they self balance well as long as you use the proper amount. This on heavy steel rims with crappy Swamper tires. Smooth at 65 mph (as fast as I could go) and it was 6 wheel drive.

 

[Mr. Nice]

Out of balance is not a wheel torquing issue.

 

[AK SNO RIDER]

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Carbon fiber wheels...

No, the 350 doesn't have carbon wheels. The spec applies to both. The regular Mustang is also 150 lbs, without the added +/- 15lbs note. I have the manual for that as well.

 

[rdass623]

when i get my bronco, i will check the owner's manual... i have been using 85 ft lbs since i have started driving in 1983. i have never had a failure. if the new specs have changed, cool. i have always used a torque wrench set to 85 -90 foot pounds and never had a failure. also never snapped off a stud because it was overtightened with my pneumatic impact...

 

[Mr. Nice]

No, the 350 doesn't have carbon wheels. The spec applies to both. The regular Mustang is also 150 lbs, without the added +/- 15lbs note. I have the manual for that as well.

That sounds crazy. My Boss calls for 100 ft/lbs..

 

[JohnnyBronco]

Out of balance is not a wheel torquing issue.

Unless you bend the wheels.

While the 150 ft-lb is widely specd across Ford trucks to me it seems like way too much. I have never owned an impact wrench that would go above 120 and always felt being in the danger zone at 80-90. Are we sure this 150 number that nobody but a college linebacker will be able to duplicate changing wheels in the wild or even doing your own rotations

 

[Bronco cat]

Do your balance beads look like this? If so that could be the issue.

I was having a bad day and this just saved it.

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