Mike Melton shows how to balance large Nitto Mud Grappler tires using a flange plate and road-force balancer. The process applies 1,200 pounds of force to simulate real driving, and this tire came in at just 22 pounds of road-force, meaning no vibration.
How do these big old Nitto Mud Grapplers balance out? Well, for one, use a flange plate. If you're a tire shop, you need one of these, hit me up, DM me. If you're not familiar with the Nitto Mud Grap, this is it. This is one of the best looking, most aggressive mud tires that are out there that most people drive on the road with. Damn side loads, they come out about 2 inches. Not a lot of people see it, but what's that look like? Look like a big old nut sack. And a lot of people don't even know it's got a big bear claw on there. Now everybody says, man, you ain't supposed to road force and balance them tires. That's why you ain't got a lot of damn business, cuz you ain't doing stuff right. So now, before we balance it out, what we going to do? We got to take that damn sticker off. All right, let's go ahead and balance this thing out. We going to cut it, we going to edit. Now she got it rolling. Here in a second, that roller is going to come down, put 1,200 lbs of force on top of this tire, simulating it being driven on the vehicle itself. So what it's going to do is going to diagnose any kind of vibration problems we're going to have, so we can reduce any vibrations and fix them before they go on this truck right here. So now roller's coming off. All right, here we are. Only an ounce and three-quarters here, only an ounce here, and only 22 pounds of road force. That's all green, so we're not going to have any type of vibration at all coming out of these big old Mud Graps.
