[Shop-talk] Wheel Balancer

[eric at megageek.com]

So these types of balancers can do the job safely?  If so, I'll add it to 
my Christmas list.  (Even though Santa doesn't seem to come to Afghanistan 
much!)  8>)

Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson



"Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> 
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12/19/2009 16:53

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> 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.