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Cruiserhead
- Location
- Layton
green would have looked better but those turned out pretty sweet 
DIY Beadlock requests
- Thread starter Meat_
- Start date
you no i would have helped you fight to get those on
I have 4 more
green would have looked better but those turned out pretty sweet
I'm happy with the yellow, already managed to scrape some yellow off though
Exalted 4x4
So. U Crew
- Location
- Salt Lake/So,UT
I powdercoated mine and i gashed them a few times and i think they are holding up better. I painted my bumper with professional rustoleum and it is scratching off a lot more than the bead locks.
camcruiser13
Active Member
just got me a set welded up. no anti coning ring?
you got a number for that ifa i need some 40-90 degree vavle stems
you got a number for that ifa i need some 40-90 degree vavle stems
Yeah I decided I need some anti coning rings, that's why I stopped at one wheel. Tomorrow or Monday I'll finish the other 4 and post up the fan belt part number.
That IFA doesn't do tires anymore, they were just getting them for me because I'm a pain in the as... errr... because I do business with them.
I finished mine without the anti-coning ring. I really thought that for as wide and as thick and the outer rings were that coning would not be an issue....... But if you look close they do all tip inward a little. I laid a level accross one and even with the 4" wide outer ring, it drops 1\8 of an inch. But for as thick as the beads on my 39.5 Iroks are, I'm not sure that I could have found a v belt that would have been thick enough to make that much of a difference.
Dan
Dan
The fan belt I ended up using was an A43 this is an industrial non toothed belt that has a 43" inside circumference. I also tried the toothed version of the same belt and it wasn't quiet as stiff so it compressed too much.
A slightly wider belt would have been better but to get that I would have had to go to an automotive belt which would have almost doubled the price.
Two of the tires needed to be driven on a bit to stop a slow leak, the spare however was anything but slow, I had to take it apart and silicon it. I waited more than one full day to put air in it and it still leaked I had the bolts at about 20lbs.... I grabbed a wrench and cranked them down more, seems to have stopped the leak.
The welded in safety bead on two of the rims was too close to the outside which put the weld directly under the tire's bead. As you can probably guess the one that I tried like that did not hold air I had to take it apart and grind the safety bead off of both wheels :-\ On the other 3 rims however it seems to work every bit as good as the factory ones do on 15 and 16 inch wheels.
Total cost (minus gas for running around)
4 rims $0
1 rim $21.25
5 rings $323
hardware (160 grade 8 bolts, 160 grade 8 nylocs and 320 hardened washers)$69.70
Sand blasting and painting 5 rims $50
2 cans of rattle primer $7
1 can of safety yellow $4.50
2 Goodyear A43's $15
2 Napa A43's (I'm told Gates makes these) $18
1 Goodyear FL450? (toothed version of A43) $8.50
$557.45 for 5 bright assed yellow beadlocks.
Things I learned
A slightly wider belt would have been better but to get that I would have had to go to an automotive belt which would have almost doubled the price.
Two of the tires needed to be driven on a bit to stop a slow leak, the spare however was anything but slow, I had to take it apart and silicon it. I waited more than one full day to put air in it and it still leaked
I had the bolts at about 20lbs.... I grabbed a wrench and cranked them down more, seems to have stopped the leak.The welded in safety bead on two of the rims was too close to the outside which put the weld directly under the tire's bead. As you can probably guess the one that I tried like that did not hold air
I had to take it apart and grind the safety bead off of both wheels :-\ On the other 3 rims however it seems to work every bit as good as the factory ones do on 15 and 16 inch wheels.Total cost (minus gas for running around)
4 rims $0
1 rim $21.25
5 rings $323
hardware (160 grade 8 bolts, 160 grade 8 nylocs and 320 hardened washers)$69.70
Sand blasting and painting 5 rims $50
2 cans of rattle primer $7
1 can of safety yellow $4.50
2 Goodyear A43's $15
2 Napa A43's (I'm told Gates makes these) $18
1 Goodyear FL450? (toothed version of A43) $8.50
$557.45 for 5 bright assed yellow beadlocks.
Things I learned
- I hate learning things the hard way
- 160 bolts is a lot of bolts, especially when you have to do 128 of them over
- TSL SX's will seal without silicon
- old bias TSL's will not
- paint and air tools do not get along
- weld in safety beads work great, unless you put them in the wrong place
- 160 nylocs is a lot of nylocs
- 38.5's and diy beadlocks are heavy
