[Fot] Results of wire wheel balance

[Jack Brooks]

Tim,

How about this?  Take an old splined hub adapter and pass it through the wheel locking it in place with a knockoff which had been bored to the same diameter of the balance machine shaft.  Will this leave you enough shaft length to hold the wheel/hub assembly on the balance machine?  The bored hole in the knockoff will center the wheel in the machine and the back of the hub adapter will square the assembly on the machine.  Will this be good enough?

Jack

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Subject: [Fot] Results of wire wheel balance

Now that the balancer is working and I can mount the wire wheels, I static (single plane) balanced the two front wheels for the TR5.  I was getting a pretty strong vibration at 75-80 MPH with the wheels as they were.  After static balancing the vibration was reduced by about 80%.  So, some success.  I did notice that the LF has large axial runout.  I didn't ever bother to measure the radial runout; the axial was so large.  Does anyone know of a company that trues or tunes wire wheels in the SE Wisconsin area between Milwaukee and Green Bay?  I live about half way in between in Fond du Lac, WI.  My alternative is to ship them off to someplace like Hendrix in NC or Dayton in OH.  Even the Chicago area would be preferable to shipping as that's only about 3 hours from me.  Has anybody tried a Harley Davidson dealer with any success?  Some of their wheels are bigger than the Triumphs.

Thanks for all of the input on balancing the wire wheels.  I'm still looking into an adapter to mount the splined hub and use a modified knock off nut to retain the wheel.

Tim Murphy
1961 TR4 #317 BRG
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