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Default Car tire balancing at home possible?

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 7:54:04 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Monday, July 30, 2012 12:19:07 PM UTC-5, Stormin Mormon wrote:
Several decades ago, J.C. Whitney had a bubble balancer that was rather good quality. I ordered one (this would be about 1982). The one they sent was a whole differnt design, and was useless. I doubt things got much better. Google shows them. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&t...ac.Z-1iSmxiEpM Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org . wrote in message ... On Monday, July 30, 2012 7:31:46 AM UTC-5, stryped wrote: Is there a way to balance wheels at home without a computer baalancer? I have seen at harbor freight kits designed for motorcycle tires, bubble balancers and the like. I have heard bubble balancers are not acurate. Does anyone have any idea on "good" redneck ways to do this? I dont live near a shop. (Amish country). I have also heard of people putting some sort of rubber toy pellets inside a tire. Supposedly as the tire spins these pellets locate themselves at the appropriate places centrifically to balance the tire. I assume this is similar to the liquid tire balancer you can purchase for large trucks. I appreciate any advice. Buy the bubble balancer. This used to be the way all tires were balanced until the spin balancer became the idiot proof operator method. You still need a supply of either self stick or rim clamped weights. ignator


Yup, that's the one I have from ~1978. I also worked a summer for a Bondag franchise, doing flat repair and new tire installation, 1974ish, bubble balancers were the only method available, and this worked even with large tires, and highway speeds of 75 MPH.
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1992 I traveled to Road Atlanta to watch the SCCA Runoffs. Wandering around the paddock I stopped at the big Goodyear tent. They had 4 or 5 custom rim-clamp tire machines going non-stop. Each mounted tire went to the balancer guy - who was using a plain bubble balancer on wheels that would see 180 mph that weekend. I question one of them as to whether bubble balancing was sufficient for the purpose. He said it was more than good enough.
I stopped at the smaller Yokohama rig a little later and noticed they were using a small, simple Snap-On spin balancer. I commented that the Godyear people were happy with their bubble balancers. The rep said "Yeah, and a lot of those guys running Goodyear bring their tires straight over to us to re-balance."

I used to keep a spin balancer at the shop for occasional use. Now I just have a bubble balancer, and I can't remember the last time I used it.
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