[Healeys] Wire Wheel Balancer

[Al Fuller]

Absolutely. The brake drums are likely to be far more out of balance than
the tires, if the drums on every Healey I've had are typical.

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Al Fuller

On Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:43 AM Harold Manifold <manifold at telus.net> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Rick Neville aka "HealeyRick"
>>
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