[TR] how they balance allow wheels

[Bob Danielson]

Jim,
I just had new tires mounted on my alloys and they used stick on weights
which is what I see on all my cars.

More importantly though was the "new" balance machine that they used. Most
machines slide the center wheel hole over a shaft and lock it down with a
tapered cone and then spin the wheel. If done wrong the tapered cone can
ruin your wheel hub. The kid at Sears wrecked 3 of 4 wheels on my brand new
Audi Quattro many years ago but that's another story. Anyway....my tire
place now has this "new" balancer that actually mounts via the lug nut
holes. These have been around for a while but each stud had to be manually
aligned with the wheel's stud hole. This machine does it automatically and
gets it centered perfectly.

Same place that will fill your tires with nitrogen!  


Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection
Toyota 5 Speed & Nissan LSD
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org 


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Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 10:36 AM
To: Triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] how they balance allow wheels

My GT6 is running on Cosmic MkII wheels from a Lotus Europa.  At least one
needs re-balancing.  When the tires were first mounted and delivered to me,
they were balanced with what seem to be weights stuck by adhesive pads to
the inside of the inner rims.  There is no obvious lip on either inner or
outer rim such as on a steel wheel where one would clip a weight.

Is this adhesive technique standard?  More to the point, if I take the car
to any random tire place will they know what to do or will they look at them
and refuse to do it?  Or do it poorly?  Should I go to one of the places
around here which display collections of spiffy alloy wheels in their
windows?

And what if someone sticks adhesive weights to a dirty rim?  What would keep
them sticking through rain, snow, sleet, and gloom of night?  Not that I
intend to drive through snow or sleet, but rain happens unexpectedly rather
often.

Tanks,

--
Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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