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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | I had some problems with that the smoothie rims (yes, yellow ones) on my car - they have multiple issues that we don't need to debate further
Anyway, one of the problems is that the rims dont accept the normal balance weight profile and therefor the balance weights are thrown off. Another problem is that you don't want to have balance weights on the "face" side of the rims.
After having tried several weights and methods, I got tired and tried the easy way out; balancing compond!
This works like a dream and will keep the wheels balanced even if the tires turns slightly on chrome rims.
Go to http://www.easy-balance.com/en/ and inform yourself
This might be the solution for those who dare to use Cooker tires |
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Location: Branson, MO | I had a similar situation with my '59 DeSoto when I put the wire wheels on it. I found what are called balancing beads. These are tiny round BB's that are installed loose inside the tire through the valve stem. The recommended number of ounces is determined by the tire size. Mine required 4 oz. per tire. As the tire spins, the beads "find" the best place inside the tire to facilitate a balance and it only takes a few seconds for this to occur. They work wonders in comparison to wheel weights placed only on the inside of the rims. I have bias-ply tires on my car and did not want wheel weights visible on the outside of the wheels. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Then we are at least 2 that confirms that these methods works! |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | ok , i'm thinkin , how do you know when you hit the perfect weight and can either product be overused/too much per wheel/tire , over shooting the perfect weight . i wouldn't mind trying the beads
if i know what i'm getting into . 32oz's for @ 30$ ----------------------------------------------later |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | There's a recommendation sheet at the sites Chuck - for instance the 235x75X15 tires I have require 200grams of compound each. |
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Location: Branson, MO | wizard - 2016-07-28 4:29 AM
There's a recommendation sheet at the sites Chuck - for instance the 235x75X15 tires I have require 200grams of compound each.
Same for the beads, tire size determines the recommendation for the number of ounces. My 800 x 14 Goodyears took 4 ounces per tire if I remember correctly.
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Location: Netherlands | Do they have special instructions for Coker tires? Or do you just use shot lead instead and multiply the required amount by 2 or 3 ?!
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | The Cooker tires needs only 8 slugs each |
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Based only on others' anecdotal experience, color me skeptical.
http://www.tundraheadquarters.com/blog/bead-balancing-tires/ |
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