Firestone tires bouncing

[Don Bradner]

Some notes on Equal: I ran it on my last SOB for most of 4 years. I live in an
area that can only be called wet - less than 70% humidity on any day of the year
would be considered dry - and never took ran a drier on my compressor when
filling the tires. When they were replaced last December (63,000 miles) I was
present during the dismount and there was nothing but powder in there.

The Equal-provided/recommended yellow marking o-rings placed on the valve-stems
were all fully deteriorated and gone by 2 years. Not sure what the company
expects of them.

I had no problems with Equal, but I also never felt that they worked better than
a decent dynamic balance, so at least so far I haven't seen a good reason to use
it again.

Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Eureka, CA

On 8/13/2007 at 10:33 PM mbulriss wrote:

>AFAIK, the most common 'dust type' material used to balance big rig
>tires is a product named EQUAL. EQUAL is a plastic polymer granule
>unaffected by moisture. It is discussed frequently on many RV and Bus
>discussion boards.