Wheel pellets

I was having one hell of a time keeping my wheels balanced on my 98 Tacoma
4X4. When I go between 55 and 65 it shakes pretty bad, at times.. I don't
think I had the problems until I bought tires from Sam's club and they put
them on and balanced. Then after a while I started a shimmy. I took them
back every now and then and had them rotated and rebalanced and the same
thing. I am now on my second set of tires from Sam's and it's staring the
same thing.

So one day I ran into an ad for these little pellets you put in your tire to
smooth out the ride. I figured why not and sent away for the packages for
each tire. I added the really small pellets in the tire and am not convinced
it helped any.When I put the pellets in the tire I didn't remove the
exciting wheel weights because I figured they should have gotten the tire
close and so the pellets would make up the difference. The directions with
the pellets say to remove the weights.

Now I found some mention of Toyota's rims not being centered on the hole but
on the mounting studs and of course, Sam's uses the center hole for
balancing. So I have this dilemma. I could remove the wheel weights and see
if it helps, as I guess one could have fallen off. Of course not having any
weights is what the 'pebble's company recommended and I guess I wouldn't be
much worse off. The real problem is now I have these things IN my tires and
I could probably never be able to get the tires balanced at a shop unless
then broke the tires down, poured out the pellets and then tried the
balance..

Woof.. with all that said, what do you guys think my plan of action should
be? Anyone have any experience with these pebble things?

Joel



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lug centric vs. hub centric
the shop needs to use a Haweka adapter
another balancing altrenative is http://www.centramatic.com/

"Joel" <Joel@cyberbest.com> wrote in message
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>I was having one hell of a time keeping my wheels balanced on my 98 Tacoma
>4X4. When I go between 55 and 65 it shakes pretty bad, at times.. I don't
>think I had the problems until I bought tires from Sam's club and they put
>them on and balanced. Then after a while I started a shimmy. I took them
>back every now and then and had them rotated and rebalanced and the same
>thing. I am now on my second set of tires from Sam's and it's staring the
>same thing.
>
> So one day I ran into an ad for these little pellets you put in your tire
> to smooth out the ride. I figured why not and sent away for the packages
> for each tire. I added the really small pellets in the tire and am not
> convinced it helped any.When I put the pellets in the tire I didn't remove
> the exciting wheel weights because I figured they should have gotten the
> tire close and so the pellets would make up the difference. The directions
> with the pellets say to remove the weights.
>
> Now I found some mention of Toyota's rims not being centered on the hole
> but on the mounting studs and of course, Sam's uses the center hole for
> balancing. So I have this dilemma. I could remove the wheel weights and
> see if it helps, as I guess one could have fallen off. Of course not
> having any weights is what the 'pebble's company recommended and I guess I
> wouldn't be much worse off. The real problem is now I have these things IN
> my tires and I could probably never be able to get the tires balanced at a
> shop unless then broke the tires down, poured out the pellets and then
> tried the balance..
>
> Woof.. with all that said, what do you guys think my plan of action should
> be? Anyone have any experience with these pebble things?
>
> Joel

You are correct about the not being centered on the hole but on the
mounting studs. To balance them properly you need to find a shop that uses a
Haweka adapter. Another possibility is that the shop who balanced your
tires has not had the balancer calibrated in a while.

I would recomend you remove the pellets and have your tires balanced by a
shop who has the proper adampter to do the job correctly.