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and this week, we're goin' over
what causes wheel vibration, and how to fix it.
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So the first most common thing
is when you buy after-market wheels,
a lot of them are gonna be dual drilled,
and what that means is you're running
two different bolt patterns, on the same wheels,
that fit multiple vehicles.
With that, the hub bore of the wheel,
which is the center of the wheel here,
will be bigger, so that it can accommodate both vehicles.
And with that, you're basically gonna have a space,
basically a big empty space between the hub of the wheel,
and the hub of the truck.
So if you check this out, you can see
where the hub of the spacer is,
you can see the hub of the wheel, and there's about a
eighth of an inch, quarter inch, maybe,
space between the two,
and what that'll cause on your truck is,
when you're tightening down the wheels,
it may not sit perfectly centered,
because of the fact that it's not sitting
up against the middle of the hub.
So the easiest way to combat that
is to pick up a hub centric ring.
These come in all kinds of shapes, sizes,
basically made for your vehicle,
for the wheel to the trucks
that you don't have all that space in between there,
and room for error.
A lot of people think running a conical lug nut
is gonna help with that, because it's rounded,
with your rounded lug holes,
that you can just put those in, and it'll kind of center it,
but having these spacers in there
is what's gonna prevent that room for error,
starting from the center outwards,
so you're not just putting in a lug nut
and have all that space in the middle of the wheel still,
that's not getting filled, and so
there's room for error to occur.
So now, the second thing you can do
is pick up a set of spacers,
and we talked about this before
in a lot of our spacer videos, and adapter videos,
and all that fun stuff,
but all of our spacers come hub centric.
Now what that means is there's a hub centric ring
in the middle of this that's basically
made for your vehicle.
It's super easy to get these customized,
any size that you need to fit your application.
If we check this out here again, like we did before,
putting this up against the wheel,
you can see that this one's not made for this wheel,
because there's a bunch of space here.
So another thing you can do is
you can just take a hub centric ring,
put that on your spacer, like so,
and then this can bolt up to the wheel,
and you can actually see
that it sits perfectly flat,
and there is no space here, there's no gap,
room for error, room for vibration,
because it's sitting up against the wheel.
You bolt this down, you bolt it to the truck,
you're good to go.
So, another thing that people don't necessarily think about
is with your wheel and tire on your truck,
is that mud, snow and ice
can all get packed on the inside of there,
and that can cause kind of an off-balance vibration
as you're driving down the road as well.
The easiest way to get that is to take the wheel off,
clean off the backside of it,
if you're going through mud and all that stuff,
snow and ice, you can just take it to a car wash,
spray it down with some hot water,
and it'll melt and you'll be good to go,
but something that a lot of people don't think about is
they'll jump in their truck, they'll drive down the road,
and they don't know why it's vibrating.
Well, a lot of that could easily be snow, ice,
and all that junk getting packed into the huge wheel lip,
or the back side of it,
and then causing vibration issues.
So then, on the subject of balancing,
there's a lot of different ways
you can balance wheels and tires,
and some of them are good, and some are not as good,
or when you're getting into
the bigger wheel and tire sizes.
So, one of the more popular ones,
for at least car tires,
is road force balancing, which basically,
it's a roller that has pressure on the tire as it rotates,
and it kind of simulates the pressure of a truck
or a vehicle, as you're driving,
and then you can balance it from there.
However, the issue with that is,
when you're getting up in your 35s, your 37s,
your 38s, bigger tires,
they're not as accurate, because
you have so much rolling mass going,
that just putting these on a road force balancer
isn't necessarily gonna give you as accurate a result
as you'd be hoping for, and especially
at the price point that they're at,
it might not be the best option.
So obviously, using typical wheel weights
is what we recommend, and it's the best way
to get a true balanced wheel.
However, if you're getting up into
your 38 and bigger tire sizes,
you're really running out of options,
because you have such a huge tire
just rolling down the road,
that one of the most popular, and only options
out there, then, is the bead bag balancing.
And basically, what this does,
it uses centrifugal force to take these beads,
and they roll throughout the tire.
They find the low spots, and they kinda
balance it out then.
However, at lower speeds, you might not notice
them being as balanced as they could be,
due to the fact that there's
not as much centrifugal force happening.
There's not as much spinning,
and the beads are just kinda floating in there,
whereas, at highway speeds,
on your county roads, your highways,
all that fun stuff,
the beads flow throughout the tire,
and they kinda just fill those spots,
and as they expand further out,
and then they truly, "truly", balance the tire,
due to it such being a huge size.
It's kinda hard to get them perfectly balanced,
but that's gonna be your best bet
on those 38 inch plus tires.
So like I said, that's typically only
for your 38 inch and bigger tires,
anything smaller than that, and we just recommend
using typical wheel weights, because that's gonna be
the best way to get you a truly balanced wheel and tire.
So, last thing we have if you're ever
having issues with the wheels and tires is to
rotate them.
Sometimes the tire sitting where it is on the vehicle
is just a bad spot, and it can be as simple as
taking your rears, swapping them,
rotating your fronts to your rears,
rears to your fronts,
and they might just sit better,
and then roll down the road better,
not vibrate as much, and you'll be good to go.
So if you've tried all these things,
and you're still having vibration issues,
chances are you could have some
front-end components that are wearing down.
You don't want a kachow mod,
so basically, keep updated,
make sure everything is good to go;
wheel bearings, tie rod ends,
all that stuff, suspension components,
try everything we suggested as well,
to prevent vibration.
If you guys have any questions on vibration,
or if you have something you want us to answer,
drop in the comments below.
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