Balancing my wheels

[tpodwdog]

hi guys. it has been a good 35 years since i have had to balance any tires. the place where i get my tires from balances the wheels but they always seem out of balance when i get on the highway at exactly 65 MPH. my guess is their balancer needs calibrated, being all 3 of my vehicles shimmy at exactly 65.

i bought a caveman target bubble balancer from where else?....EBAY. 56 buxx shipped to my house. i bought the balancer so i can AT MY LEISURE balance the tires on the road runner belvy and my truck. i cant always get time to take it back and why take it back when its just gonna shake anyway....RIGHT ? ( yes its the tires...not loose front end parts,,,,i checked )

from what i remember about balancing. place 2 weights on the tire and move em around until its balanced. place one weight on the inside and one on the outside....correct ?

the road runner and the truck use the "hammer on" type, but the Belvy has aluminum wheels. what weights are used on these rims? the tire store put stick ons inside the back of the rim....but they keep falling off and i really dont want to use them again. is there a " hammer on " type for these? the balancer is on its way here but i have no weights.....yet !

any and all info would be greatly appreciated ! thanx....THE DAWWWWWWWWWG:headbang:

 

[roadrunnerman]

You can still use the hammer on type weights. I used to have it done on my mags(cragers) and aluminum slots years age and never had no problems.

 

[wannadrag]

Aluminum mags need the sticky weights.Weights are most likely made in china so of course they fall off.

 

[RustyRatRod]

You can do it either way. The bubble balancers are really just static balancers. They are really only designed to put the weight on one side of the wheel in one place, or stick on weights in the center of the back side. You can split it up on the front and rear, although it will not do any better of a job.

Where your problem probably lies is in improper tire installation. Tire shops nowadays are after your money and that's all they give a damn about. What needs to be done is to watch them spinning up on a spin balancer. There's a line around the entier tire on both sides just above the wheel lip. This line is SUPPOSED to be as parallel as possible to the wheel lip.

When tire installers get in a hurry.....as they always are, they fail to lube beads properly, they fail to pop the bead out properly. The correct way to mount a tire is to get it running as true as possible on the balancer AND taking a reasonable amount of weight. Sometimes a tire needs to be broken down and turned either 90* or 45* on the wheel and lubed up like a prom queen, then blown up about 15 pounds over the max to assure it pops out on the wheel correctly. How many tire shops do you think will take the time to do that unless you're stand there watching them? None.

 

[67 coronet]

if you continue to have a problem find a tire shop that "road force" balances.the machine measures rim to tire variences and then indicates how to align the tire to the rim for least amount of varience.also,ask to have your tires balanced down to 1/10 of an ounce,rather then the normal
1/4 ounce.when done they will run smooth to 200 plus mph!