Mike Melton shows how to hide wheel weights on mud tires by tucking them behind spokes instead of sticking them on the rim. He balances a 35x12.50R22 Toyo Open Country MT using small weights around 1.25 oz and 0.75 oz, keeping the tire looking clean while staying balanced.
35x12.50R22 (spoken as '35, 12, 50, 22').
Now this one tire we're going to start doing a lot more of right here, this is the Toyo open country mt. Now as far as an off road MT tire, this is one of the most popular tires on the market. Reason this thing's popular for one that's a damn good looking tire. Now no mud tire should get over 50000 point blank period. But a lot of people saying they get 60, 70000 miles out of these tires. You let us, let us know if you do. Now this One here is a 35, 12, 50, 22. Now this Toyo MT and the Nitto MT is the quietest butt tire. Now of course everybody wants to know how these things balance out and how they gonna rode for us. Let's go and throw it on there and show you. Now one way we do it different, we balance about the Lugos. Now one thing I always say, take the stickers off people, take the damn stickers off. All right. Now the last person, all they did was static balance is wheel. That ain't the right way. So what we gonna do, we're gonna hide the weights behind the spokes, we're gonna spoke balance it. We're gonna do a dynamic, we're gonna put a weight here and a weight behind these spokes. Reason is that if it calls for weight here, you don't want to be able to see that weight, right? So that's why we're going to hide it. Get that thing spinning, rolling. That thing only calls for an ounce and a quarter ounce of three quarter right there on a big old 22 inch mud tire. Now see we're going to put that right there behind that spoke.
