[Shop-talk] Wheel Balancer

[Randall]

> Motorcycle static wheel balancers use the axle to balance the wheel. 
> You would have to fab up some kind of hub to axle fixture to use a 
> rolling type of static balancer like motorcycles do.

Which might be as simple as a spare hub from the car in question.

>  However, I 
> remember when bubble level balancers were the only game in 
> town and they 
> seemed to work ok.

Indeed, a friend of mine who used to run a tire shop swore that they
actually work better than dynamic balancers.  When my motorhome had a shimmy
problem that no one else could solve; he put the front wheels on his bubble
balancer, took off about half the weights, and the problem disappeared.

Randall