Mike Melton demonstrates why mounting and balancing 19.5×46×20 Mickey Thompson tires requires specialized equipment. The 300-lb wheel-tire assembly needs only 10 oz of weight to balance on a Hunter HD Elite static balancer, a heavy-duty machine most shops don't have.
Now these right here are some biggest tires. A lot of y' all have even mounted. They some Mickey Thompson 19 and a half by 46 by 20s. Now, as you see these things right here, some super aggressive tires. Now, not everybody can mount and balance these things. That's why they brought them to us, because we can knock it out. And no, we're not throwing up balancing beads in here. So we're going to be mounting these things on some custom wheels. Let me show you the wheels. We're putting them on. We're going to be mounting these tires up on some American forged 20x14s, custom painted. All right, now we got that thing mounted to balance, ready to go. Now stand beside that thing. Chase, see how. See how big that tire is. Now as you can see how big that is. Now let's go ahead and throw this thing on the balancer. See how these things do. In order to balance something this big, you got to have this machine right here. So what we got here is the Hunter HD Elite. So the difference between this balancer and our other road forces, the hood is a lot bigger and the roller's a little bit different. So now this type of wheel here, you don't dynamically bounce. The lip goes all the way too far in. So this one here, you would static balance. Now, something that weighs this heavy and this big, I don't expect it to take two or three ounces of weight. Now, before we balance it out, what we're going to do, we're going to take that damn sticker off, son. Now, this is a super aggressive tire, so we're not going to use a roller on this one. All right, we got that thing rolling. All right, let's start rolling what we got. So that thing's calling for 10 ounces of weight. Now that's not bad for something that probably weighs about 300 pounds. All right, as you see, we got 10 ounces of weight on there. Let's go ahead and spin her again. All right, she's spinning now. What's it calling for? Did we get it? Ah, we got to zero it out. She's ready to go. Bounced up.
