Mud throwing off wheel balance

[Ksnau]

I took my baby bronco out mudding this weekend and when I got back on the highway to drive home I couldn't go over like 50 because I could like feel that my wheels were off balance and I could like feel them shaking in the rear. When I looked at the wheels, their inside was caked in mud and it was this like dry sticky mud. I had to scrape it off with a screwdriver and even then I couldn't get it all off and I ended up having to drive home going like 55 miles an hour.

I've been off-roading and mudding since I was 16 and I've never had this happen before. I don't know if it was because of the type of wheels I had or what, but has anyone had this happen with their broncos sport when they got in really bad mud? Also it only happened to the rear wheels.

I had it in mud and ruta the whole time till I got back on pavement. The only thing I could think of was maybe I wasn't accelerating hard enough and so the back wheels weren't really spinning as much as the front And so they weren't cleaning themselves out as much maybe but it should have been locked front to back since I was in mud and ruts So they should have spun the same. I would have thought or close to. The front wheels the insides were like there's like nothing them.

 

[Mark S.]

Yup, it can happen.

 

[metalbender]

Make sure you clean it out before it dries. Wheels have to come off if you don't

 

[Robins21]

Mud caked on the inside of the wheel as well as snow will most defiantly throw off the wheel balance.

 

[jkeaton]

Yes. It does.

 

[Ksnau]

Oh I had to pull the wheels off anyways it was bad and the mud was this sticky almost dry stuff that was terrible. It took an hour to get it off and the car driving right again.

I had just never had it happen and it seemed so crazy especially turning a 2 hour drive into a 3.5 hour one and that it only happened to the rear ones. The front ones were almost clean inside.

 

[Barry S.]

Yup, it can happen.

I've been out of New York City for 30 years but, yeah, they tawk like that.

 

[AndyMac204]

Mud will definitely do this. Clean it off asap, before it dries. The mus is essentially adding extra weights where there should be no weights.

 

[Martinjv71]

I took my baby bronco out mudding this weekend and when I got back on the highway to drive home I couldn't go over like 50 because I could like feel that my wheels were off balance and I could like feel them shaking in the rear. When I looked at the wheels, their inside was caked in mud and it was this like dry sticky mud. I had to scrape it off with a screwdriver and even then I couldn't get it all off and I ended up having to drive home going like 55 miles an hour.

I've been off-roading and mudding since I was 16 and I've never had this happen before. I don't know if it was because of the type of wheels I had or what, but has anyone had this happen with their broncos sport when they got in really bad mud? Also it only happened to the rear wheels.

I had it in mud and ruta the whole time till I got back on pavement. The only thing I could think of was maybe I wasn't accelerating hard enough and so the back wheels weren't really spinning as much as the front And so they weren't cleaning themselves out as much maybe but it should have been locked front to back since I was in mud and ruts So they should have spun the same. I would have thought or close to. The front wheels the insides were like there's like nothing them.

Mud and Ice throws off ANY vehicles wheel balance. Its a matter of Physics and not vehicle type.

 

[RSH]

Sort of a no brainer, what did you think would happen.

 

[Ksnau]

This has never happened to me before and I've mudded a lot in bronco sports and many other vehicles so excuse me for asking.

 

[RSH]

What can make it even worse is when you clean your vehicle afterwards, for example at a pressure washer car wash and you miss some of the globbed on mud/debris on the inside of a rim, then you leave the car wash and your vehicle starts really shaking and you think WTH.
It's a learning experience.

 

[Mwittke5857]

I took my baby bronco out mudding this weekend and when I got back on the highway to drive home I couldn't go over like 50 because I could like feel that my wheels were off balance and I could like feel them shaking in the rear. When I looked at the wheels, their inside was caked in mud and it was this like dry sticky mud. I had to scrape it off with a screwdriver and even then I couldn't get it all off and I ended up having to drive home going like 55 miles an hour.

I've been off-roading and mudding since I was 16 and I've never had this happen before. I don't know if it was because of the type of wheels I had or what, but has anyone had this happen with their broncos sport when they got in really bad mud? Also it only happened to the rear wheels.

I had it in mud and ruta the whole time till I got back on pavement. The only thing I could think of was maybe I wasn't accelerating hard enough and so the back wheels weren't really spinning as much as the front And so they weren't cleaning themselves out as much maybe but it should have been locked front to back since I was in mud and ruts So they should have spun the same. I would have thought or close to. The front wheels the insides were like there's like nothing them.

I have the same issue on my BB with snow & ice