Double beadlocks leaking

[jhacking]

I have heard on other forum boards that you guys have a fix for my leaking beadlocks? Since I switched over to a 275 hoosier Drag Radial from my 275 Mickey's they wont hold Air. I can't make one single pass safely with the amount of air it leaks just going to the line. What Can you do to help me here.

Thanks Jamie

[Weld2]

If you are positive that the air is escaping from the tire bead area, there are several things to look for as to the cause of this leak. Since you have already been using these wheels and only changed tires, I am going to assume that you are already torquing the beadlock bolts to 18 ft-lbs (220 in-lbs) and that you have a beadlock ring specific to the Mickey Thompson tire (5179MT) which provides the most clamping force on any 15" beadlock wheel.

First, take the bolt-on rings off the wheel and verify that they still have a flat mounting surface to the welded-on part of the wheel. You can check this by placing each ring on a flat surface or hold the inner and outer rings back to back. If they have a potato chip appearance, this may cause uneven clamping force and a leak. This can occur if each beadlock bolt is taken from hand-started to tight in one motion (and visa versa when uninstalling).

Another suggestion is to make sure there is no foreign debris on the weld-on ring flange and the tire bead and the bolt-on ring flange. This could also include loose rubber particles from the tire.

These are a couple of places to start.

[jhacking]

I checked the rings and they are not the 5179MT rings, but saying that they sealed up better with my Mickeys, and not the Hoosiers? I only get the leak down Bad on one of the wheels? I checked all rings and bead seats and everything checked out Ok. :confused:

[Weld2]

There is no absolute consistancy in a tire's bead bundle thickness from one tire of the same size from the same manufacturer to another. The same is true with one tire manufacturer to another.

The more research we do, we are finding that even the tire bead bundle's shape is very different from a bias ply to a radial and even more variable from one tire manufacturer to another. Some smaller sizes of a Hoosier tire will have a much smaller tire bundle than their larger tire sizes. It is very possible that if you were to check the bead bundle thickness on the Hoosier tire that is not leaking to the tire that is, I would suspect that the one that is not leaking has a thicker bead bundle and closer to the bead bundle thickness of your previous Mickey Thompson tires. If this is true, the 5179MT will cure this issue.

[jhacking]

I understand.. Could you tell me the thickness differance between the 5179 beadloc & the 5179MT beadloc?