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Post by yjintheworks on Aug 17, 2006 19:36:47 GMT -5
Me and Colby(2000taco), were driving home from work today and a question came up between the two of us and neither one of us could answer it.
Are beadlocks street legal? If not, why?
If you know, inform us please.... Thanks
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Post by zulu on Aug 17, 2006 20:53:02 GMT -5
Reading my 4x4 mag, bead locks are not dot approved for the street, but there is a company that has a beadlock that has just been approved from dot to run on the street. the name of the company escapes me now.
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Post by 2000taco on Aug 17, 2006 21:44:29 GMT -5
Reading my 4x4 mag, bead locks are not dot approved for the street, but there is a company that has a beadlock that has just been approved from dot to run on the street. the name of the company escapes me now. Does it give any reasoning on why they are not approved for the street?
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Post by Archangel on Aug 18, 2006 0:07:43 GMT -5
One of the main reasons bead locks are not street legal are the bolts in the outer ring...Lets say your driving down a street, we will say Grant for instance, doing about 45...a bolt comes loose in the outer ring, and now you have a 45 MPH projectile multiplied by the rotation of the wheel hurtling towards grandma on the corner.....got an idea why they are not street legal now....
Fake Beadlocks are just that...fake, bolts are simulated and WELDED in...
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Post by yotamaster on Aug 18, 2006 0:08:58 GMT -5
The reason there not street legal is because the leak air over time and you have to torque the bolts ever 100 miles. But I will say from personal expreince. That you can run them on the road my buddy has it on his Yota and the cops don't bother him. I think thats because of the of semulated bead lock lovers. But to answer your question yes they are not legal for street use.
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Post by 2000taco on Aug 18, 2006 0:59:31 GMT -5
Oh i c. Much appreciated.
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Post by blluebear on Aug 18, 2006 11:30:07 GMT -5
That kind of information is always nice to know. Are bead locks used when airing down really really low? I do not know alot about them.
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Post by slick1100 on Aug 18, 2006 11:52:22 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a beadlock wheel essentially just a split rim? Excuse my ignorance of the subject.
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Post by yotamaster on Aug 18, 2006 12:15:27 GMT -5
Yes Beadlocks lock the bead of the tire down which allows you to run single digits for psi. If you you don't run beadlock and you run single digits you run the risk of rollin your bead.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW you should air down your tires when your wheelin but it changes from tire to tire. I have a set of Micky Thompson claws on my truck and I air down to 15psi some people with the thompsons go down to 10-12psi. Now my buddy has a set of Big O tires and he can only go down 25psi. The difference is the side way and a few other things. But the side wall is the most inportant.
With beadlocks everthing changes.
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Post by slick1100 on Aug 18, 2006 12:47:07 GMT -5
Yes Beadlocks lock the bead of the tire down which allows you to run single digits for psi. If you you don't run beadlock and you run single digits you run the risk of rollin your bead. IF YOU DON'T KNOW you should air down your tires when your wheelin but it changes from tire to tire. I have a set of Micky Thompson claws on my truck and I air down to 15psi some people with the thompsons go down to 10-12psi. Now my buddy has a set of Big O tires and he can only go down 25psi. The difference is the side way and a few other things. But the side wall is the most inportant. With beadlocks everthing changes. No no, I understand about airing down, and that beadlocks allow you to air down further than a regular rim. I guess my question is more along the lines of, if split rims are street legal, why not beadlocks? Possibly the fear is not of the beadlocks, but of people running around with too little pressure, which adversely affects a truck's handling on the road. As I recall, split rims are for running at very high pressures for load capacity. This puts even more strain on the bolts, and pose a greater danger I would think.
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Post by yotamaster on Aug 18, 2006 18:40:05 GMT -5
I believe the main reason is because they leak air and you have to torque the bolts every hundred miles. At least that is the answer I got when I asked the same question. I'm thinking it"s because some people are to lazy to keep tighting the bolts every hunderd miles.
I don't know much about the spilt rims. I really can't say much on that. All I know about is the beadlocks
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