How do you balance
your tires?
Since I've had access to a computer wheel balancer I do all my own tire work at my ex-boss's shop (I did computer foreign parts pricing/inventory).
I'm going to lay some of my personal preferences about wheel looks and performance. (I expect responses so tell us yours?
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First off, I don't like wheel weights hung on the outside of my wheels ever! Not only do they come off when I bump the competition
, to me it distroys the desired design of the rim and just plain seems in poor taste.
When the computer wheel balancer has the wheel turned it gives a dynamic reading of what weights need to be hung on the inside and the outside of the tire.
Since not putting the weight on the outside of the tire would leave it unbalanced, I add flat weight to the horizontal flat section just inside the non-visible section of the rim as far to the outside as possible.
Then I re-run the computer to verify there's enough weight on the outside, I add or subtrack weights as needed to achieve a "Zero" on both inside and outside readings.
That's it man. No rocket engineering here?
(I'm probably a "D" student, and just flunked the Toyota Tire School?
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You might ask your wheel balancer/mechanic his method of balancing the tire dynamically, I never went to the Toyota Tire School so there may be other methods out there, let's hear yours?
(My method works for me, but hey, I'm open for new ideas.)
The main objective here is to get the computer to tell you "Zero" weights needed on both inside and outside which confirms the wheel is dynamically balanced to "True"
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Next question is: using tubes inside your tubeless racing slicks?
Well?
