Does anyone have experience with beadlock tubes?

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No one seems to be chiming in, so I'll toss in my 2 cents... These have been around for a while. If I understand the history correctly, Coyote was an importer for the Stauns previously, which were around in the mid 2000s at least, so it seems like they've got a solid history with the product. No personal experience, so all I've got is feedback I've seen on random forum posts over the years: worth what you pay for it. That said, it seems like most people who point out the negatives don't have any experience with them, while most people who buy them seem happy.

I didn't look at options like this when I beadlocked mine, because I wanted to go to 17s anyway for better tire options... it just made sense at the time to go ahead with a beadlock wheel. That said, if I were happy with the tire and wheel combo I had, I wouldn't be afraid to give these a try. They're relatively cheap, considering the cost of tires and wheels at this point!

Side note, I think I need to buy a set of their tire deflators. They look pretty nice.
 
JoeCova said:
What are you airing down to?
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We usually air down to 10-14 PSI. Tires are Mickey Thompson Trail Boss 255/85-17s on 7.5" wide Sequoia wheels. In all the years, I've never had a tire lose a bead at those pressures, but these things just don't seem to want to stay on the bead. In the past, I've had 285s and 315s mounted on 8" wide wheels without issue, but I think that the skinny tire on the skinny wheel just doesn't stick the way a much wider tire does on a slightly wider wheel.
 
Mandrake said:
We usually air down to 10-14 PSI. Tires are Mickey Thompson Trail Boss 255/85-17s on 7.5" wide Sequoia wheels. In all the years, I've never had a tire lose a bead at those pressures, but these things just don't seem to want to stay on the bead. In the past, I've had 285s and 315s mounted on 8" wide wheels without issue, but I think that the skinny tire on the skinny wheel just doesn't stick the way a much wider tire does on a slightly wider wheel.
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Wide tire on a skinny wheel is the poor man’s beadlock.

10-14 psi should be more than enough to prevent a bead popping under most circumstances so you may just be burbing air along the trail.

Inner beads and beadlocks are awesome but not sure I’d spend that much on a skinny 33 but entirely up to you, myself and my friends run the inners with 40s.

Coyotes require a second valve stem hole so if you don’t have a second, you’ll have to drill one into the wheel.
 
It's actually a 35. Well... 34.6" if you're splitting hairs. Burping air is probably a better descriptor as both times that it happened, the bead was still seated on the rim. Yeah, they're a bit spendy and I'm sure the install's going to be a couple three hundred bucks, but I see it as eliminating a proven failure point and adding redundancy (the ability to be a limp-off-the-trail run flat). They're out of stock until Jan, so I have time to think, anyway.

Last time we were out, we ran 18 and it was fine, but it rode rougher and definitely didn't have the traction it does at 10-14. Something needs to be done because I don't want to be holding the group up and/or clogging up the trail to air up a tire. I thought about beadlock wheels, but unless I want to get silly expensive and get customs made, they're all too wide for the pizza cutters. So the only real option is a beadlock tube. Before I bought them, I figured I'd see if anyone's using them and maybe get some feedback.

I read the install directions for the Coyotes and it's pretty straight forward. It may involve some calling around to various off road shops to find one that's willing to do the work. Stuff like this makes me wish I had a tire machine...

Thanks for the replies, guys.
 
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