Rear wheel balancing By steve (Read 487 times)

[steve]

It's way past time to balance the rear wheels of my Viking so I went looking for a tire shop. I could not find anyone close to do it, but I'm old enough to remember when we used a bubble balancer on all our wheels. I went shopping on Ebay and found many to choose from. They run in price from about $39 to $to damn much. I ordered a nice one for about $57. It ships from the US in about a week. It will do center holes from 1.5 to 4 inches. I don't think it will take long to return the investment as it will work on most of my vehicles. I also remembered to order self stick powder coated weights. I ordered 1/8 and 1/4 ounce.

[seniorcit]

O.K. Now that you have had it for some time - how well does it work? I cannot find any shops around here that can do wheel spin balancing for 12 - 14" wheels.

[crwford]

I do in here its a hit or miss most of time it will work if tire and wheel are good.

[seniorcit]

Harbor Freight has a nice wheel balancer for about $40.00. It uses the same principle that I have used to balance model airplane props.