[Healeys] Wire Wheel Balancer

[m.g.sharp at sympatico.ca]

I made up my own adaptor using a used hub and knock-off (spinner).  I had a machinist mount the hub on the lathe and ensure that it was true on the inside edges (where the bearings fit) and had him put a slight chamfer on the edges to provide better registration for the standard cones on a modern balancer.  Then we machined the centre out of the spinner so  that when the wheel is mounted on the hub and the spinner is tightened, the outer cone on the balancer fits through it and registers on the hub.  That part is a little tricky as if you machine the hole too big, the spinner will end up in two pieces – measure carefully!  Hub and spinner was $25 at a swap meet and machining was $50.  I believe this adaptor will work on any post-war wire wheels except the Jags, which had different hubs.  Worked a treat on my TC wheels.  Healey is running vibration-free- so leaving it alone for now.

 

I too liked on-wheel balancing and in my simple thinking it balanced the drum or disk at the same time – as long as you remembered to mark the position of the wheels when you took them off and did not rotate them (to a different position on the car)!  That is likely one reason  they are not used anymore, because if your drums were out of balance and you added weights to the wheel that balanced them out, then every time you removed the wheel, you’d loose the balance, unless it went back in exactly the same position.   Anyhow it’s a moot point as I have not seen an on-wheel balancer for decades.   I imagine that disks run very true anyhow, but when I balanced the drums on the TC  they were significantly off.  I hear balancing Healey drums brings good results, but never felt the need as my BT7 has always run pretty smooth.  If anyone in Ontario (Canada) wants drums balanced, Garland and Sons in Scarborough did great work for me.

 

Mirek

 

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Harold Manifold
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 11:35 AM
To: HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com>
Cc: Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Wire Wheel Balancer

 

It looks like the kit is designed to follow the Dunlop/MWS recommendations for balancing. See attached. It should be a good piece of kit.

 

Harold

 

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 8:28 AM HealeyRick via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net> > wrote:

AH Spares just sent out this email about a wire wheel balancer kit to mount the wheels on a modern balancing machine.  What are your thoughts?  https://www.ahspares.co.uk/austin-healey/big-healey/wheels/wire-wheel-balancing-kit.aspx?utm_medium=email-1st <https://www.ahspares.co.uk/austin-healey/big-healey/wheels/wire-wheel-balancing-kit.aspx?utm_medium=email-1st&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email> &utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

 

Rick Neville aka "HealeyRick"

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