Paul,
It seems I am fortunate in this backwater where they still use the
old fashioned way - no fancy equipment !
At 03:57 AM 7/14/2011, Paul Hunt wrote:
>Can't speak for the TD but on the MGB the critical thing is how the
>wheel is mounted on the balancer shaft. Normally they mount the
>back of the wheel against a flat surface and put a cone through the
>centre hole. That's fine for modern wheels as the centre hole is
>designed for that purpose, whereas on MGB stud wheels it's just a
>hole that was punched through to make space for the hub nut without
>much consideration for concentricity or roundness. It's bad enough
>with those, but on wire wheels neither of the machined tapered
>mounting surfaces are being used, and I've had tyre places point out
>a massive wobble with the wheel on their machine that isn't there on
>the hub. I've had a pair of cones machined
>(http://www.mgb-stuff.org.uk/MGBCones.exe) that support the wheel
>both sides - on the inside taper at the back of the wheel and the
>outside taper at the front which has solved the problem for the wire
>wheels, and I have a hub waiting to be machined so I can mount my V8
>wheel by the studs. However it does need the agreement of the tyre
>place to use them. I have done some tests at my tyre place and
>found that their standard cone when used on the back of the wheel
>gives the same balance results as the machined cone even though the
>standard cone has a different taper and so holds the wheel on the
>edge of its taper instead of its flat, so potentially you only need
>the outer cone. YMMV.
>
>PaulH.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>>You think that's frustrating, try wire wheels.
>>
>>Most shops can't balance them at all -- they would wind up putting 20
>>weights around the rim and they would still vibrate.
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Barrie
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