Seems like they should re-balance for free if it's still bad. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. One "at home" option is to use a manual wheel balancer like this model: These are normally used for people that want to balance their own trailer tires or for off-road vehicles, but in many cases you can do a good enough job to balance a car tire with one.
Improve this answer. JPhi JPhi I use this to balance my motorcycle rims on at home and it works great. That's a very balanced answer. What you can do is rotate the tires and see if your problem moves to the rear. Ben Ben You can totally balance wheels yourself with inexpensive tools.
You don't need an expensive piezo electric machine. There are also straight shaft, two cones and bearing rest systems out there. How well do they work? I would think static balancing a tire would be a waste of time for a high speed vibration. Dynamic balance is recommended for very wide rims The bubble tool just does static balance.
Here's an image describing static vs dynamic imbalance. Its not clear to me on what type of shops test for dynamic imbalance. Most shops talk expensive machines, but they almost always install the weights in a single plane same as the guys using a bubble level A dynamic balance involves spinning the wheel at speed. The centripetal forces cause differences in the distribution of the weight of the tire, which shows up as a dynamic imbalance i.
This is something you can't do with a static balance. I do my own motorcycle tires mounting and static balancing and have no issues. To be honest, I wouldn't expect the difference to be huge, but I have no data to back up my claim besides the claims of tire shops and balance machine manufacturers, who have an arguably biased point-of-view.
Other wheels can be rotated, of course. When all areas of the wheel-tire unit are as equal in weight as possible, the tire will roll smoothly. This helps it wear evenly, for longest life. Balancing also contributes to ride comfort: Imbalanced tires will wobble or hop up and down, which causes vibration.
If the problem is in the rear the tremor will be noticeable in the seat or floor. Imbalanced tires are easily corrected, but the work is precise. Everyday wear on tires will contribute to imbalance. Rebalancing is done in a tire shop by putting the wheel-tire unit on a tire balancing machine that takes measurements to pinpoint lighter or heavier areas and making adjustments to account for these weight differences.
Wheel alignment corrects the angles of the tires so they travel in the same direction and make contact with the road properly. Alignment reduces uneven tire wear and extends the life of your tires. For whatever reason? But then I was wondering if it would be better to somehow hang the tire from an assortment of small steel cables?
Maybe that would work better? Anyway, just curious if anyone ever tried to balance a tire without an actual tire balancer machine? Problem is, a static balance like that will balance it radially i. Tester There you go! When mounted on a non drive axle an out of balance wheel and tire will turn and come to rest with the heviest side down.
If a mark is made at the position and the mark turned to the position weights can be added at the position so that the tire remains still when released.
I needed a lathe and a brazing torch to make it. The bushing must fit snugly inside the wheel center hole and over the pipe. The bottom of the pipe is plugged with a small bushing with a hole in the center for the knotted cord.
Play with weights until the cord is centered at the top of the pipe. A new car might require a new bushing or an old one with the OD trimmed. Sometimes a layer of tape over the bushing will do to make a snug fit in the wheel hole. The dimensions are not critical except for the bushing. You can compensate somewhat for this with half of the needed weight on each side and if that does not work, put all of the weight on the other side.
I, for one, can barely tolerate waiting around in a car repair place. Rather than sit around waiting while others do work, I might as well be doing it myself.
Rod Knox, This can work if there is no wheel bearing seal, grease or disk brake drag. I once made a wheel balancer for a Rambler from a spindle and brake drum assembly from a scrapyard.
I removed the wheel bearing seal, bearing grease, the internal brake parts and lubed the roller bearings with oil. The resulting balancer, mounted in a vise, worked very well but it became obsolete when the car was traded. Bubble balancing used to be the standard.
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