bead locks

[chrome]

i have just been looking around at beadlocks and im goin to burn some out at work sooner or later,
so basically i want to know how many bolts are needed around the ring i have seen as little as 12 and as high as 36.
i was thinking around 24 would be fine
what do you lot have

[meatc]

36 for cert. seen plenty 24 work fine, guess it depends on the shape of the plate, as in does it have a lip or is it just flat.

[haydgq]

i have just been looking around at beadlocks and im goin to burn some out at work sooner or later,
so basically i want to know how many bolts are needed around the ring i have seen as little as 12 and as high as 36.
i was thinking around 24 would be fine
what do you lot have

I think most of the 36 bolt ones use 6mm thick rings and some of the guys that use a lesser number of bolts use 8mm thick rings so that might be worth thinking about aswell

But yea if you want them road legal and certed they need to be 36 bolts.

[Fakey]

Have seen some of the american ones with as little as 16 in them but 24 will be heaps for your offroad only zuk

[chrome]

unless i put them on the prado.... or the trailer, shit everything round here is 6 stud

[Jerry]

grab one of mine to copy if you want, you can borrow the caliper brackets as well

[chrome]

i have found a 30 bolt dxf jerry but i will drop the bolts down to 24 i think, as for the caliper brackets i still need to grab those, can u bring one up to rallys next week???

[chrome]

now ive ben lookng around again and have another question....
are you supposed to cut off the bead and weld it to the outer ring or do you just weld the inner to the outermost edge of the rim and clamp it onto the tyre with the outer??

[Sadam_Husain]

now ive ben lookng around again and have another question....
are you supposed to cut off the bead and weld it to the outer ring or do you just weld the inner to the outermost edge of the rim and clamp it onto the tyre with the outer??

You cut the bead off and use 2 rings, they are both the same ID, the inner ring is a larger OD than the outer ring, the tyre is clamped between the origional rim bead and the inner ring

[skid]

yup, I'm sure I heard someone telling you that this afternoon at a tyre shop

or at least thats what he was trying to say

[chrome]

yeah i got all that, but what about the types where you dont cut the bead off.... does anyone know about those?? im just trying to figure out the pros and cons of both types.
cheers for the pics sadam

[chrome]

like these flat ones



http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb17 ... 0_9388.jpg

[skid]

like these flat ones

have you got more pics, they could be just a cap thats screwed over the top dude



or have a look at these wheels..............
http://www.cowpertrucks.co.nz/beadlocks-p-121.html

[turoa]

Yea you can do the style where you just weld a ring straight to the rim and have a flat outer ring, but with that setup you have to run an anti coning ring the same thickness as the bead

[Cleary]

Yea you can do the style where you just weld a ring straight to the rim and have a flat outer ring, but with that setup you have to run an anti coning ring the same thickness as the bead

Sounds like you would still need a tyre machine to get the tyres onto the rims if you left the rim intact and just welded a ring on.

One benefit of the ones like Sadam's that Brian Howat and Dan Cowper make is that they can be fitted up by hand - cos the beadlock ring is small enough to fit the tyre over without machinery.

You still need to be careful abut the spacing between the 2 surfaces that actually clamp the tyre (inner lock ring and the outer bead) as different makes of tyre have different bead thickness. I had to get some modified when I changed tyre make - cos they were slipping with the new thinner bead tyres.

[chrome]

iv just loked at my cad file and it wouldn't take bugger all to reduce the sizes for the cutoff bead type, i know my way around a tape measure although i have sen on a lot of yankee sites people using just a flat ring on both the inner and outers without a anti coning ring producing a flared outer ring with no probs....
im just being a little lazy and i should really do it properly