[Healeys] Wire Wheel Balancer

[Bob Haskell]

Harold,

How did you balance the drums - add or remove material? Care to provide 
any details?

Bob Haskell
Austin-Healey 3000 roadster registrar

On 5/15/23 11:32, Harold Manifold wrote:
> Another consideration for balancing the rear tires is the brake drums. 
> I have the original BMC brake drums and was surprised at how out of 
> balance they were. I static balanced the brake drums to go with the 
> separately balanced wheels and tires. No vibrations, shimmies or 
> skuttle shakes so far.
>
> Harold
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:34 AM <greylinn at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>     Here in Brisbane there’s at least one place (near me) that does
>     on-car balancing. The wheels on my 100 don’t have a central hole,
>     so can’t be balanced on a regular machine. That said, the last set
>     of Khumo Ecowing ES31s I bought are fine with no balancing!
>
>     Peter Linn
>
>     Brisbane
>
>     BN1 Holden V6
>
>     MG TC special
>
>     *From:*Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> *On Behalf Of
>     *m.g.sharp--- via Healeys
>     *Sent:* Monday, May 15, 2023 1:07 PM
>     *To:* 'Harold Manifold' <manifold at telus.net>; 'HealeyRick'
>     <healeyrik at gmail.com>
>     *Cc:* 'Healeys' <healeys at autox.team.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Wire Wheel Balancer
>
>     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> 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&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
>         <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>
>
>         Rick Neville aka "HealeyRick"
>
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