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Re: Balancing wheels@home

To: Shop Talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Balancing wheels@home
From: Rush <jdrush@enter.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:31:02 -0500
Chuck Rothfuss wrote:
>    I suspect they had very good quality race wheels and tires produced with
> tight quality control.  I static balance the wheels on my land-speed car as
> well, since I have Moon discs on the outside, and have never had a problem
> with them.  I have also recently replaces three complete sets of tires on
> brand new Chevy trucks that were so poorly manufactured (or damaged during
> transport) that even with a machine that measures road force balance and
> allows wheel to tire matching they could not be properly balanced.

Let me guess, were they Goodyear or one of its house brands?  My friends
with road force balancers have found the Goodyear and related brands
horrible to road force balance.

Jon





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