Re: [Amc-list] Re; Tire Balance.

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Are we stacking the total weight at 12 o'clock then moving it clear down to 4 and 8?
Or are we stacking the weight at 6 o'clock?
Learn something new most everyday.
I had in the past split weight front to rear of rim, but don't rememebr doing it this way.
Splitting it would make any imbalance less of an issue as it would be spread out farther.

May be time to pick up one of those balancers! They are everywhere dirt cheap now a days!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx>
> SNIP
> 
> When using a "static" (bubble) type balancer you should first set the
> 
> total amount of weight needed to balance the tire on the rim of the wheel.
> 
> Divide the weight into FOUR separate weights. Then move the two groups of
> 
> four weights to the 4 and 8 o'clock position on the wheel. Adjust the size
> 
> of the weights to get the tire to center the bubble. 
> 
>  By dividing the weights into 4 groups (to be mounted on the front and
> 
> rear of wheel) and positioning them at 4&8 o'clock you 
> 
> are coming closest to achieving "Dynamic" balance by using the static
> 
> method.
> 
> You would be surprised at how many tires can be satisfactorily balanced
> 
> using this method.
> 
> But HEY,,, that's just ME,,,
> 
> Bruce Hevner
> 
> SNIP
> 
>  
> 
> Like I said, back in the day when spin balancing was more advertising hype
> than functional I got pretty good at bubble balancing, its only been in the
> last 15 or so years that I have seen spin balancing be better or at least as
> good as I used to be able to do it, and with my Harbor Freight Bubble
> balancer I do o.k. here in the garage. I still have a car that I can use a
> bumper jack with to break beads loose and a couple of good tire irons to
> worry the tires off with if I have to anyway and a rubber mallet that works
> well putting them back on if I need it. I don't do it too often any more,
> but it is nice to know that I still can. 
> 
> Now if I can only figure out how to adapt nuclear power to all of this to
> make it easier with out flagging hazmet the world would be good, or as an
> alternative anyway maybe I can find that converter used on the time
> traveling DeLorean that you threw freshly emptied  beer cans into in order
> to get power to my reproduction flux capacitor than I could be considered
> not only automated but officially regarded as green too!
> 
> John 
> 
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