[Land-speed] Another Wheel Question...

Bryan Savage b.a.savage at wildblue.net
Sun Nov 4 09:32:50 MST 2007


Mayf,

Less than .020 should be fine.
I would be much more concerned about stagger.

Bryan


drmayf wrote:
> I am going to purchase a couple of  wheels from Diamond Racing Wheels 
> because the Goodyear tire folk said my 2 rear wheels had wobbles in 
> them. Well, I put the bare wheels on the spindle in front and set up a 
> dial indicator. Wobble seems to be over stated, but just for chuckles, 
> how much would make a wheel no good? These have 0.010" max for one wheel 
> and about 0.016" for the other. That doesn't seem like a lot, but whadda 
> I know?  Yes, I can call wheel suppliers but I am asking you folk with 
> your direct experience. Would you run wheels with this much "wobble"? In 
> fact, how many of you actually check the run out to begin with? This is 
> not something I would normally do..
> 
> mayf


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