When I had four family Beetles, I bought a Beetle hub, replaced the
bearing grease with light oil, left out the seal, chucked the hub in a vice,
mounted a tire that needed balancing. gave the wheel a slow spin, and did
something else while it was finding the heavy spot. Then I put a weight
opposite the heavy spot, spun again, and did something else. Kept this
up until wheel would stop at various places. In time I learned which size
weight was needed by how fast the wheel stopped.
Never had to do one over, never had any tire related vibration that wasn't
a defect in the tire. Beetles didn't weigh much. Don't know if this would
work with heavier cars.
Gerry
From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net>
I acquired a coats computer spin balancer. Just tried it out and it works
great, fast and easy. I already had a tire machine so I ordered all my
tires much cheaper and mounted them myself and used a bubble balancer, but
this will work much better. It ads up paying $10 a wheel to balance with
the amount of cars I have, plus I prefer to do it myself. Now all I need
is an alignment machine then I will be all set.
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