Anyone spining wheels inside the tires?

bdp

bdp

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I am not sure if I am or not but I keep getting a nasty gooey grease around the beads of my front tires and cant figure out where its comin from. I clean it off everytime I wash it and its there again everytime I wash it. It is not there on the back tires but I run about 50psi in the backs and 25 in the front.

Anyone else having wheel slip issues? If so what can be done to fix it besides bead locks?
 
bdp said:
I am not sure if I am or not but I keep getting a nasty gooey grease around the beads of my front tires and cant figure out where its comin from. I clean it off everytime I wash it and its there again everytime I wash it. It is not there on the back tires but I run about 50psi in the backs and 25 in the front.

Anyone else having wheel slip issues? If so what can be done to fix it besides bead locks?
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I've seen it before, although not on my truck. 4 or 5 years ago I watched Darren Morrison's truck spin the wheels on the dyno. On the video you can see a wisp of air shoot out tangent to the wheel bead right when the chargers hit.

The most common solution is the old school "beadlocks". Where you drill a hold in the wheel bead and run a short screw through it, into the tire bead at evenly spaced intervals all the way around the tire. This is tried and true. People have been doing it for a long, long time.

I don't know the specifics on how many holes, screw size and length, so on and so forth, but I'm sure plenty others still do. Call up any old ass drag racer and I'm sure he can fill you right in.
 
yea mine do it. same thing with the gray stuff coming from between the tire and wheel. some body makes an internal bed lock seen it in a 4x4 mag some where. it goes in side then its pumped up putting outward force on the bead
 
Copy the way thier done on the Black Truck. #14 x 3/4" screws, 8 per side 16 per wheel space evenly. That was a Moroso kit, but Im sure you could get them at any hardware store. Ryan
 
If you want to be sure they are spinning just put a little mark with a white paint marker next to the valve stem on all 4 tires. That way you will know for sure.
 
I think you could dismount them, use some alcohol and clean the surfaces well. Maybe even the hairspray trick?
 
Maby they are spining then, didnt think it was possible with 25psi in them but that crap keeps comin back. Thought about markin the tires but not until after my last pull.
 
We had problems with ours , all we did was dismount them clean the tire and wheel with brakecleen and got black tire sealant/glue from napa. We brushed it on both surfaces and havent had a problem yet.
 
If ya drive it on the road, i don't know bout the screws!?!? But a puller only, i thing the screws are the way to go!!!
 
Mine move but at this point its very slight. and mainly on the rears.

im not spinning them to a point where its making multiple rotations in a run, my rears only move about 1-2" per pull on a tight track. fronts move less than an inch.
 
I am thinkin they have to be moving alot to get them hot enough to make the greasy stuff that oozes out. Not seen the oozy stuff on the back rims like the fronts do.
 
Our 2wd gassers have rim screws aswell. It does help alot on tire slippage, but even at 30-40psi that we run we have still slipped them. And when they do slip there is no saving the tire at all. Also another problem with it that we have had is when a tire gets a knot in the side wall it will try to pull apart from the rim causing the tire to blow out down the track. Fortunatly we have not had that problem with the Mickey Thompsons, but the the Truxxus STS's and the BFG A/T's I've seen many of them blowing the side wall out from knotting up.
 
3M spray adhesive on a clean bead stopped the spin problem on our bogger/aluminum combo, but its a SOB to break the bead
 
Paint a strip from the rim to the tire. If they don't line up after a run, you are spinning.
 
I find polished aluminum rims have this problem more than steel or bare aluminum wheels, especially the ones with clear coat stuff on them to keep them shiny. I rough the wheels up some on the beads with coarse sandpaper and then use bead sealer and it holds them good even down to 20psi.
 
i ran my fronts ar 14 last pull and prob at 12 the next one, ill have to mark em to see what happens.
 
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