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Do you balance your tires?

Big Red

Big Red

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I noticed my Ranger has a front-end vibration above 35 MPH. In the past when I upgraded my wheels and tires I had them balanced before putting them on and never had any issues. At least for now I plan to run the stock tire and rim set-up so I'm going to get them balanced Friday to see if it helps. Has anyone else noticed a front-end vibration? Do you normally balance your SXS tires?
 
I have never balanced my utv tires in the past, but that's not saying it's not a good idea. For now I haven't noticed a vibration.
 
I have done it in the past on some of my high-performance machines and it made a big difference. I think it would make a noticeable difference, especially at high speeds.
 
Big Red said:
I noticed my Ranger has a front-end vibration above 35 MPH. In the past when I upgraded my wheels and tires I had them balanced before putting them on and never had any issues. At least for now I plan to run the stock tire and rim set-up so I'm going to get them balanced Friday to see if it helps. Has anyone else noticed a front-end vibration? Do you normally balance your SXS tires?
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No balance on mine and no vibration or pull one way or another. I agree with Dragoon that it would probably solve issue. A friend has his balanced on Pro R and it is smooth with 35’s.
 
I got the tires balanced yesterday and it made a HUGE improvement. I can now run down the road at 60 with no vibration. I let the owner of the shop take it for a spin (he has a 23 XP1000 crew) and he was amazed. He said he was going to talk to the boss to she would let him get the new XD.
 
Big Red said:
I got the tires balanced yesterday and it made a HUGE improvement. I can now run down the road at 60 with no vibration. I let the owner of the shop take it for a spin (he has a 23 XP1000 crew) and he was amazed. He said he was going to talk to the boss to she would let him get the new XD.
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That's great news! Thank you for reporting back with the results.
 
Jay B said:
Did they use stick on weights for the balance or the clip on type?
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They used the stick-on weights all on the inside of the rim. The good news about the stock rims is they have a 6-1 offset so you can place everything on the inside of the wheels (both left and right sides of wheels)
 
Big Red said:
I noticed my Ranger has a front-end vibration above 35 MPH. In the past when I upgraded my wheels and tires I had them balanced before putting them on and never had any issues. At least for now I plan to run the stock tire and rim set-up so I'm going to get them balanced Friday to see if it helps. Has anyone else noticed a front-end vibration? Do you normally balance your SXS tires?
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put in automatic tire balancing beads 6 oz. bag in each tire. you can get them
from any napa store part number 704-1442
 
jr.yager said:
put in automatic tire balancing beads 6 oz. bag in each tire. you can get them
from any napa store part number 704-1442
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I had beads in my bike tires once and had a problem with them. If the beads and the valve stem are at the 6:00 oclock position when you check your tires the beads can get sucked up into the valve stem when you check your tire pressures which prevented them from fully closing. I kept having a slow leak and couldn't figure out why. Dealer installed a valve stem with a little screen and it solved the problem. The Ranger has MUCH bigger tires and a lower PSI so I don't know if this would or could be a problem. I just always got in the habit of making sure that the beads were at the bottom (gravity) and the valve stem was not.
 
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