From rob45789 at msn.com Mon Feb 27 19:14:14 2012 From: rob45789 at msn.com (Rob McNair) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:14:14 -0700 Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing Message-ID: Good Day, Can any of you recommend an establishment that can balance wire wheels in the vicinity of the Holladay/Millcreek area. My local tire store doesn't have the proper equipment. Thanks for your help and time, Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From duff_lawson at msn.com Tue Feb 28 07:44:13 2012 From: duff_lawson at msn.com (DUFF LAWSON) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:44:13 -0700 Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Pyle Wheel used to be able to do it, in fact, they used to also do spin balance on the car, which is a really old tech way to balance the entire rotating mass. Which is still an idea with a lot of merit, even in this day and age! Duff From: rob45789 at msn.com To: Jimrevel at aol.com; charles.edington at gmail.com; Bmcu at autox.team.net Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:14:14 -0700 Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing Good Day, Can any of you recommend an establishment that can balance wire wheels in the vicinity of the Holladay/Millcreek area. My local tire store doesn't have the proper equipment. Thanks for your help and time, Rob _______________________________________________ Bmcu at autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/bmcu/duff_lawson at msn.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jimrevel at aol.com Tue Feb 28 10:00:42 2012 From: Jimrevel at aol.com (Jimrevel at aol.com) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing Message-ID: <3ba8f.4cec8df1.3c7e623a@aol.com> It is best if you can find a guy that spin balances on the car instead of bubble or spin balances off the car. I know Russ Alignment does but they are not near you. They are at 1915 South Redwood, 973-7439 most in the Healey Club swear by their alignment and they are reasonable. In a message dated 2/27/2012 7:14:16 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, rob45789 at msn.com writes: Good Day, Can any of you recommend an establishment that can balance wire wheels in the vicinity of the Holladay/Millcreek area. My local tire store doesn't have the proper equipment. Thanks for your help and time, Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ron.christensen at wsapr.com Tue Feb 28 11:57:56 2012 From: ron.christensen at wsapr.com (Ron Christensen) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:57:56 +0000 Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing In-Reply-To: <3ba8f.4cec8df1.3c7e623a@aol.com> References: <3ba8f.4cec8df1.3c7e623a@aol.com> Message-ID: If you balance the wheel on the car and remove the wheel for any reason you have to put it back exactly in the same position in relation to the hub. This isn't such a problem when there are lugs to make note of but with a center-lock wheel it is very difficult to relocate the wheel back onto the exact same position on the splines. Find someone with on old type bubble balancer that uses a cone type thing for centering. You can still buy one of those from Harbor Freight I think. That was the way we always did it in the old days and never had any problems with balance. .. From: bmcu-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:bmcu-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jimrevel at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:01 AM To: rob45789 at msn.com; charles.edington at gmail.com; Bmcu at autox.team.net Subject: Re: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing It is best if you can find a guy that spin balances on the car instead of bubble or spin balances off the car. I know Russ Alignment does but they are not near you. They are at 1915 South Redwood, 973-7439 most in the Healey Club swear by their alignment and they are reasonable. In a message dated 2/27/2012 7:14:16 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, rob45789 at msn.com writes: Good Day, Can any of you recommend an establishment that can balance wire wheels in the vicinity of the Holladay/Millcreek area. My local tire store doesn't have the proper equipment. Thanks for your help and time, Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pgerity at admin.nmt.edu Tue Feb 28 12:02:52 2012 From: pgerity at admin.nmt.edu (Peter Gerity) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:02:52 -0700 Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing In-Reply-To: References: <3ba8f.4cec8df1.3c7e623a@aol.com> Message-ID: <6579211B-773C-4ADF-8E1A-A1794E4607F1@admin.nmt.edu> Rob, I have had great luck with working with motorcycle shops. They usually have all the right size cones and adapters for the wire motorcycle wheels and they work perfect on our LBC wires. Cheers, Pete Gerity On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Ron Christensen wrote: > If you balance the wheel on the car and remove the wheel for any > reason you have to put it back exactly in the same position in > relation to the hub. This isn?t such a problem when there are lugs > to make note of but with a center-lock wheel it is very difficult to > relocate the wheel back onto the exact same position on the > splines. Find someone with on old type bubble balancer that uses a > cone type thing for centering. You can still buy one of those from > Harbor Freight I think. That was the way we always did it in the > old days and never had any problems with balance. > > > .. > From: bmcu-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:bmcu- > bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jimrevel at aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:01 AM > To: rob45789 at msn.com; charles.edington at gmail.com; Bmcu at autox.team.net > Subject: Re: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing > > It is best if you can find a guy that spin balances on the car > instead of bubble or spin balances off the car. I know Russ > Alignment does but they are not near you. They are at 1915 South > Redwood, 973-7439 most in the Healey Club swear by their alignment > and they are reasonable. > > In a message dated 2/27/2012 7:14:16 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, rob45789 at msn.com > writes: > Good Day, > > Can any of you recommend an establishment that can balance wire > wheels in the vicinity of the Holladay/Millcreek area. > My local tire store doesn't have the proper equipment. > > Thanks for your help and time, > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Bmcu at autox.team.net > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Archive: http://www.team.net/archive > Forums: http://www.team.net/forums > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/bmcu/pgerity at admin.nmt.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob45789 at msn.com Tue Feb 28 19:08:16 2012 From: rob45789 at msn.com (Rob McNair) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:08:16 -0700 Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing In-Reply-To: <3ba8f.4cec8df1.3c7e623a@aol.com> <6579211B-773C-4ADF-8E1A-A1794E4607F1@admin.nmt.edu> References: <3ba8f.4cec8df1.3c7e623a@aol.com> <6579211B-773C-4ADF-8E1A-A1794E4607F1@admin.nmt.edu> Message-ID: Thanks to all of you. I never expected to get so many great ideas to solve one problem. You guys are the best. Thanks again, Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Gerity To: Ron Christensen Cc: Jimrevel at aol.com ; rob45789 at msn.com ; charles.edington at gmail.com ; Bmcu at autox.team.net Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing Rob, I have had great luck with working with motorcycle shops. They usually have all the right size cones and adapters for the wire motorcycle wheels and they work perfect on our LBC wires. Cheers, Pete Gerity On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Ron Christensen wrote: If you balance the wheel on the car and remove the wheel for any reason you have to put it back exactly in the same position in relation to the hub. This isn?t such a problem when there are lugs to make note of but with a center-lock wheel it is very difficult to relocate the wheel back onto the exact same position on the splines. Find someone with on old type bubble balancer that uses a cone type thing for centering. You can still buy one of those from Harbor Freight I think. That was the way we always did it in the old days and never had any problems with balance. .. From: bmcu-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:bmcu-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jimrevel at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:01 AM To: rob45789 at msn.com; charles.edington at gmail.com; Bmcu at autox.team.net Subject: Re: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing It is best if you can find a guy that spin balances on the car instead of bubble or spin balances off the car. I know Russ Alignment does but they are not near you. They are at 1915 South Redwood, 973-7439 most in the Healey Club swear by their alignment and they are reasonable. In a message dated 2/27/2012 7:14:16 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, rob45789 at msn.com writes: Good Day, Can any of you recommend an establishment that can balance wire wheels in the vicinity of the Holladay/Millcreek area. My local tire store doesn't have the proper equipment. Thanks for your help and time, Rob _______________________________________________ Bmcu at autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/bmcu/pgerity at admin.nmt.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From duff_lawson at msn.com Wed Feb 29 16:18:12 2012 From: duff_lawson at msn.com (DUFF LAWSON) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:18:12 -0700 Subject: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing In-Reply-To: References: <3ba8f.4cec8df1.3c7e623a@aol.com>, , <6579211B-773C-4ADF-8E1A-A1794E4607F1@admin.nmt.edu>, Message-ID: I used a firm rap on a cold chisel to mark across the hub and wheel at the same time. No problem getting the wheel back on in exactly the same position every time. Duff From: rob45789 at msn.com To: ron.christensen at wsapr.com; pgerity at admin.nmt.edu Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:08:16 -0700 CC: Bmcu at autox.team.net Subject: Re: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing Thanks to all of you. I never expected to get so many great ideas to solve one problem. You guys are the best. Thanks again, Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Gerity To: Ron Christensen Cc: Jimrevel at aol.com ; rob45789 at msn.com ; charles.edington at gmail.com ; Bmcu at autox.team.net Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing Rob, I have had great luck with working with motorcycle shops. They usually have all the right size cones and adapters for the wire motorcycle wheels and they work perfect on our LBC wires. Cheers, Pete Gerity On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Ron Christensen wrote: If you balance the wheel on the car and remove the wheel for any reason you have to put it back exactly in the same position in relation to the hub. This isn?t such a problem when there are lugs to make note of but with a center-lock wheel it is very difficult to relocate the wheel back onto the exact same position on the splines. Find someone with on old type bubble balancer that uses a cone type thing for centering. You can still buy one of those from Harbor Freight I think. That was the way we always did it in the old days and never had any problems with balance. .. From: bmcu-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:bmcu-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jimrevel at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:01 AM To: rob45789 at msn.com; charles.edington at gmail.com; Bmcu at autox.team.net Subject: Re: [Bmcu] Wheel Balancing It is best if you can find a guy that spin balances on the car instead of bubble or spin balances off the car. I know Russ Alignment does but they are not near you. They are at 1915 South Redwood, 973-7439 most in the Healey Club swear by their alignment and they are reasonable. In a message dated 2/27/2012 7:14:16 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, rob45789 at msn.com writes: Good Day, Can any of you recommend an establishment that can balance wire wheels in the vicinity of the Holladay/Millcreek area. My local tire store doesn't have the proper equipment. Thanks for your help and time, Rob _______________________________________________ Bmcu at autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/bmcu/pgerity at admin.nmt.edu _______________________________________________ Bmcu at autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/bmcu/duff_lawson at msn.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: