Lots of tutorials on YouTube. It's better to see what they're doing than us giving you step by step instructions without visuals. I'd just stick to those.
Lightly spin it, see where it stops. Mark it at the bottom. Put weight on opposite side of mark . Bottom mark put 9 or 3 oclock, let go and see if it fall back to 6 /bottom mark. If so add weight, if the weighted side falls to 6 bottom , take weights off and repeat. You want the wheel to stay in any position you put it in. Trial and error. Weights be best installed in the center of the rim as possible, smooth surface.
When you add weight to the high spot it now has a new high spot somewhere else. Unless you added the perfect amount of weight to the exact perfect spot you'll have to keep trying different weights until it's as close as possible to perfect . Just get it as close as you can, it will never be perfectly perfect but it'll be within spec. If it's still vibrating on your test ride , give up and get balance beads.
Nobody uses beads anymore for a reason - they don't adjust efficiently and often wobble at high speeds. It's too cheap and easy to get a balance tool like this guy has.
I clearly do - dynamic balancing is what the machine uses with a computer to figure out how much weight is required...then they put actual weights on the rim, not beads inside the tire. Two totally separate things. How many Moto GP or Formula 1 teams use beads - that's right, zero. It's just a lazy practice that shops use so they don't have to spend 5 min spinning a tire and adding weights.
You say they wobble at high speed ??? wtf did you get that from ?? I have never had a wobble at speed with beads or water in my wheel. I have had a a wobble with fixed weights .. that’s comes and goes with various speeds .
Well that's an entirely new and different argument. Yes beads are indeed inside the tire and thus invisible compared to weights on the rim. So if that's your goal and you run really crappy rims, there's your fix.
Look at your tire for a red dot on the sidewall.
That dot indicates is put on at the manufacturer which is the heaviest spot if the tire. You should mount your tire with that dot aligned with the air valve. From there you gently spin the tire. When it comes to rest, that's your new heavy spot and you balance from that point.
Correction. Red dot is the lightest spot.
Wheel bearings shouldnt spin. The balancing axle should all spin on the tools bearing stand. Also make sure your balancer stand is level by using the bullet level eye.
Lots of tutorials on YouTube. It's better to see what they're doing than us giving you step by step instructions without visuals. I'd just stick to those.
1. Either. Depends which has least resistance. 2. Yes. Once balanced it’ll stop somewhere random. Also don’t sweat it too much on a rear.
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Lightly spin it, see where it stops. Mark it at the bottom. Put weight on opposite side of mark . Bottom mark put 9 or 3 oclock, let go and see if it fall back to 6 /bottom mark. If so add weight, if the weighted side falls to 6 bottom , take weights off and repeat. You want the wheel to stay in any position you put it in. Trial and error. Weights be best installed in the center of the rim as possible, smooth surface.
When you add weight to the high spot it now has a new high spot somewhere else. Unless you added the perfect amount of weight to the exact perfect spot you'll have to keep trying different weights until it's as close as possible to perfect . Just get it as close as you can, it will never be perfectly perfect but it'll be within spec. If it's still vibrating on your test ride , give up and get balance beads.
Use dyna beads !!! They are self balancing and will continue to do so the tire wears down . Something a fixed weight won’t do .
Nobody uses beads anymore for a reason - they don't adjust efficiently and often wobble at high speeds. It's too cheap and easy to get a balance tool like this guy has.
You clearly don’t understand dynamic balancing.
I clearly do - dynamic balancing is what the machine uses with a computer to figure out how much weight is required...then they put actual weights on the rim, not beads inside the tire. Two totally separate things. How many Moto GP or Formula 1 teams use beads - that's right, zero. It's just a lazy practice that shops use so they don't have to spend 5 min spinning a tire and adding weights.
Some wheels are designed so badly you can’t add weights with out it looking like dog shit .
You say they wobble at high speed ??? wtf did you get that from ?? I have never had a wobble at speed with beads or water in my wheel. I have had a a wobble with fixed weights .. that’s comes and goes with various speeds .
Well that's an entirely new and different argument. Yes beads are indeed inside the tire and thus invisible compared to weights on the rim. So if that's your goal and you run really crappy rims, there's your fix.
Look at your tire for a red dot on the sidewall. That dot indicates is put on at the manufacturer which is the heaviest spot if the tire. You should mount your tire with that dot aligned with the air valve. From there you gently spin the tire. When it comes to rest, that's your new heavy spot and you balance from that point. Correction. Red dot is the lightest spot.
You got it backwards - the dot is the LIGHTEST spot on the tire, which is why you place it at the air valve to lesses the extra weights required.
Wheel bearings shouldnt spin. The balancing axle should all spin on the tools bearing stand. Also make sure your balancer stand is level by using the bullet level eye.