lcottrell
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 1494
Location: Jordan Valley, Or
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 Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 1:12 pm Post subject: Tire Balance |
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I bought a pair of the Aero Classic tundra tires from Desser. One of
them required a lot of weight to balance. 14.8 ounces to be exact. I
called them and talked to one of their salesman. After a bit of
fumbling around they sent me another tire that arrived yesterday. I
put it on and balanced it out. This one only required 3.4 oz of weight
which is much more like it. As a matter of fact I believe that it is
the rim rather than the tire that caused me to have to add lead to get
it balanced. My other tire that seemed normal required 3.6 oz of
weight to balance.
The rims are the new Matco "spun rims". My reason for that statement
is that the tires have a red dot stamped on them to indicate the light
spot on the tire. I lined up the valve stem with that red dot on the
first two, and the light spot was always where the valve stem was
located. This time with the new tire, I put the red dot directly
across from the valve stem. The tire still rotated so that the valve
stem was straight up. I dismounted the tire from the rim and realigned
it to the valve stem and the red dot, ( as it should have been first)
and the light spot was still the valve stem. After balancing I needed
3.4 oz of weight to allow the tire to remain in neutral balance.
Here is a short video of the process. https://vimeo.com/220527865
It should not require a password. If it does use - owyheeflyer
Larry
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