Tire slime: Whats your opinion?

[46Tbird]

a liquid or fluid object in a tire will automatically balance itself. That's assuming it doesn't have excessive or uneven friction.

In theory, yeah. In practice it doesn't work that way. Any bump in the road will disturb the distribution of liquid mass and you will have an imbalance.

If this really worked, filling tires with water/goo would be standard practice.

Justin, pull all the weights off your wheels, fill the tires up with Slime, and give us a report.

[CJ]

In theory, yeah. In practice it doesn't work that way. Any bump in the road will disturb the distribution of liquid mass and you will have an imbalance.

If this really worked, filling tires with water/goo would be standard practice.

Justin, pull all the weights off your wheels, fill the tires up with Slime, and give us a report.

It's true hitting a bump can knock it out of balance, but only momentarily as it will return to balance. I balance large off road tires with airsoft BB's, it works great. Slime has excessive friction as I mentioned before, only completely fluid objects would work.

[46Tbird]

Bingo. Sand works too, it's an old trick for balancing bias plys.

[bcoop]

You're so stupid you never even understood that thread lol.

The only person who never understood that thread is you, Corky. And yes, the dumb is very strong in here. It's all coming from your keyboard.

[svauto-erotic855]

I filled all of my work trucks tires with slime and ABSOLUTELY will never use it again. In the morning the trucks would shake like hell until the stuff got spread around the inside of the tire and it would shake like hell after every stop. In colder weather it was even worse. I had to have 28 tires dismounted and I wiped out the slime with paper towels. Cost me a fortune in time and aggravation.