[Healeys] Wire Wheel Balancer

Wed May 17 20:54:05 MDT 2023

Wow!!!

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:47 AM Roger Grace <roggrace at telus.net> wrote:

> Me too had my rear drums balanced.
> A local machine shop with dynamic balancing equipment did this for me -
> big improvement.
> See photo of drum after grinding off a substantial amount along the
> periphery.
> See also the before and after out of balance readings.
>
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> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 4:45 PM Bob Haskell via Healeys <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rick Neville aka "HealeyRick"
>>>
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