I install, repair and balance tires for a living - and sorry man, but I do not approve of this -

I’m sure the Subaru guys will love this one.

We used sheet metal screws on off-road motorcycle and ATV rims in the 70's and 80's. One motorcycle rim company had rims with steel pins that were pressed into the inside of the rim, that were 1/8". They were for 7-10psi and to keep the tire from spinning on the rim. The motorcycles were running tubes and ATV's were tubeless. Didn't work with 0 psi because the screws and pins didn't hold the tire against the rim, it needs some air pressure.

Really like this conversational non scripted posting that didn't scream advertisement and make you look like a salesperson all the time. Sincere thanks for posting and looking for more of this type of content...used deck and drywall screws to temporarily fix a punctures on the trail a few times, yet never for beadlock.

I did that back in the early 80’s when I was 1/4 mile racing my mustang with full drag slicks on it. They worked great. No issues what so ever.

Ya, been thinking about doing the Moroso kit from Summit Racing for my 39.5 boggers.

Awesome guys 👍

I made beadlocks for my portal axel buggy back in the 1970's because I could not find anything to buy commercially that would work (at that time.) I drilled the wheels with the tires mounted for 1/4 inch wood screws. I ran almost flat pressure, typically 4 to 5 lbs. Before the wood screws my buggy would easily spin the tires on wheels and they would also pop off the rims entirely. I experimented using several different kinds of glue before I went to using screws, but glue was a very bad idea. Tire shops hated the glue.

Lolol. Hell yea ! I know what im buying from Home Depot this weekend. Haha

Those roofing screws are actually rated at 75kilograms each so with that many taking the strain there pretty strong.

Tappers are great but in this applications you need STAINLESS STEEL!!!!!!

I think a good bead of rtv or Yamabond on the screws would be a good idea for sealing and help keep them from backing out.

Pretty interesting result. I look forward to further testing. That flat tire almost looked like a tank tread, lol.

Mmm, the Icon wheels are quite different just because you ain't making the screw go throug the tire. This ones impressed me, I thought they would just snap and destroy the tire. I think a better approach would be using those same rubber washers and some screws with better steel in them.

What tires were on the Jeep when it originally pulled into the shop-before you swapped on the DIY beadlocks?

You should have done some hard cornering to see if you could have rolled the bead off

I would be afraid the holes in the tire would eventually/quickly wallow out.

Stainless steel screws.

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What about trying to replicate what Icon have done? For example, if Icon sold only their studs that they put in their wheels by themselves I'd be tempted to try and put them in my aluminum wheels to make a set of beadlocks. I imagine Icon probably doesn't want to sell those studs by themselves because they want you to buy their whole setup and there could be some liability issues if they sell the studs and somebody screwed up a wheel and get somebody killed. That doesn't mean that I don't want to replicate what they've done on my own aluminum wheel and tire.