Mike Melton removes and balances 37x13.50-20 Nitto Ridge Grappler tires on an Overland Jeep, using a flange plate to align weights with lug holes. He runs a road-force balancer to catch vibration-causing imbalances before remounting, noting that many shops skip this step or lack the equipment.
We're gonna be changing some kids' lives today out of school. Before we do that, let me go over these tires. We got this Overland Jeep in there, so we took off some Nitto Ridges right here. So we got a little money out of these right here. He liked these tires so much, what'd he do? He went and bought another set. These things are some 37x13.50-20 Nitto Ridge Grapplers E-load. And you're gonna be like, oh man, he don't need an E-load tire, he don't need that. Listen, that's what the damn man wants. All right, he's got it on there. Of course we got that flange plate. We're going to balance it by the lug holes, that way you ain't got nothing touching the front face of that wheel where it could damage. Now before we balance these big old 37s out, what we got to do, we got to take that damn sticker off, son. I got all the weights off. Let's go ahead, bounce this thing out. We're not going to cut it, we're not going to edit. Here in a second, that roller's coming down. If you don't know what that roller does, this is a road force balancer. It's going to diagnose any kind of vibration issues before these tires and wheels get back on the vehicle. A lot of companies won't spend the extra money, or they actually don't even know how to use the damn equipment. All right, roller's coming off here in a second. It's coming up, but we got zero weight here. We only got 2 and a quarter here and only 9 pounds of force.
