Gale Hawkins
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jefff929 wrote:rokitman wrote:jefff929 wrote:do you feel the vibration in the seat or the steering wheel?
Mostly in my seat, I assumed it was one of the rear tires. New tires, and shocks (and steering damper). When taking the rig back to storage today, I had my wife look for anything that might cause the problem. She said it looked like the wheels were "jumping" or "bouncing" a bit, but she wasn't sure if it was just the way the wheel covers looked. (so nothing severe) One or two of the wheel covers have a dent ot two, so I wonder if they could be the culprit. As far as I can tell they are centered on the rim. Next time I pick it up I'm going to leave them off when I check air pressure and see if that helps. With new Bilsteins, I would expect that they would be able to really control any real wheel hop. That is indicating your vibration is in the back not the front end. I'd check the spring hanger or radius rod bushings and wheel bearings. More than once I have seen the welded weights come off brake drums, I don't think Equal, dynabeads or centrmatic ballancers would mask that.
Is your coach a pusher? If not, you could have lost a drive line weight.
Also, check U-joints.
A good point.
I swear these roads including interstates can keep me on edge. On our run into central KY a month ago like to have drove me crazy over concern of the MH. It would get seem like something was out of balance or out of round but then hit some new pavement and it was smooth as silk.
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I have equal all the way around... there was a very noticeable vibration when I left the tire shop. I called them and they assured me that after a while, it would smooth out. It did -- I don't recall how many miles it took, but it's smooth as silk now.
Never had a problem with losing air or gumming up a tire gauge or the pressure sensors.
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sbishop
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I have used equal since 2000 and haven't had a problem. There will always be some moisture in the air used to inflate tires and I don't think unless you could see it when you blew air into the atmosphere that it would hurt.
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CW did the Equal thing for me when I had them mount new (Goodyear) tires and (Bilstien) shocks. Having never even heard of this stuff (Equal) they assured me that If I was not satisfied, I could come back and they would remove the Equal and balance the tires with weights. They also said it would take about 5 miles for the bag(s) to break. Then...smooth as silk.
2 years and 7000 miles later...all is well.
MAKE SURE...whoever does the job puts in the correct air valve to prevent the Equal from coming out. Mine have yellow strips on them.
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More times then I care to mention, the road surfaces today are not as smooth as they look. I find some roads really wobbly and then the crowned roads create the pulling effect. Equal has been doing a great job for me.
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Hikerdogs
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We bought a couple new tires (I'll bet the same brand as yours) at the Camping World in Kissimmee Fla. back in 2006. They also installed bags of Equal and the filtered valve cores at that time. Since then we've driven over 22,000 miles with no vibration or balance problems.
It took about 5 miles of driving at highway speed before the bags broke and distributed the powder. Just as an FYI the Equal comes in different size packs for different size tires. It could be possible that the tech grabbed the wrong size bags and there isn't enough powder in the tire(s) to balance them properly
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wa8yxm
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I have looked at Equal, Dyna beads and other things that all guarentee to balance your tires automatically as your drive. After many years of wondering how they worked someone finally explained it to me in a way I could understand and it appears they may well work
Still... I remain convinced that traditional weights are the best way and do not feel Equal or it's equal, are the way to go
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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Gale Hawkins
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wa8yxm wrote:I have looked at Equal, Dyna beads and other things that all guarentee to balance your tires automatically as your drive. After many years of wondering how they worked someone finally explained it to me in a way I could understand and it appears they may well work
Still... I remain convinced that traditional weights are the best way and do not feel Equal or it's equal, are the way to go
Well at least you have your logic.  Ours came with Dyna beads and seem to work fine but with the roads today it is hard to know. I just to not like taking the MH to a tire shop because we have to loosen and retorque when we get home to insure our 450 foot pound rated electric impact wrench can break them loose should we have a flat on the road.
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Equal in my 22.5" tires for 4 years now no problem.
A 225/70R/19.5 takes 6oz in single & 8oz in dual.
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rokitman
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Triker33 wrote:Equal in my 22.5" tires for 4 years now no problem.
A 225/70R/19.5 takes 6oz in single & 8oz in dual.
They had originally moved the two front tires to the rear (and I replaced those too a couple of weeks later) and when I took them home, I found the remains of one packet labled "E" 4oz, so I guess they could have had two 4 oz packets in there. None of the valve stems had a yellow ring, so I asked about when I went back , and they told me they did used the correct valve core, and the yellow ring didn't do anything. I asked them to put it on so any service folks would know that I was running equal (because i didn't even know). They stuck a yellow ring on one side. So I guess all in all, I'm not very confident they did the job correctly. I wonder if CW would rebalance them for me at a different store?
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