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how about a throw back to 1977. I was a kid working in a real gas station, where we changed tires for Winter and Summer. $2 to mount a tire, $1 to bubble balance. Alignment on front end only $10. No one knew how to do vette IRS and not a lot came in.
How about a throw back to 1977. I was a kid working in a real gas station, where we changed tires for Winter and Summer. $2 to mount a tire, $1 to bubble balance.
I remember it well, as I was one of those "kids working in a station", too. You should have seen me working one of those old Coats tire machines. I was a "phenom"!
(and I was one of the few who could mount/dismount tires on Cragar SS or Keystone Classic wheels, without damaging the centers of those wheels.)
Discount tire for me was 80 bucks for all 4 road forced balance.
2 were not acceptable and replaced..
get the number it gives you..i think 17 or below is OEM recommendations
big believer in rf balance..get the number though..they may get lazy and not rotate tire if needed to reduce weights
Great to hear! It sounds like you got a good job on those. Let us know how they run out. I'm a believer too. It's a high-tech balancing 'system' when done properly.
how about a throw back to 1977. I was a kid working in a real gas station, where we changed tires for Winter and Summer. $2 to mount a tire, $1 to bubble balance. Alignment on front end only $10. No one knew how to do vette IRS and not a lot came in.
Bubble balance. That brings me back. Two weights, one for the outside of the rim, one for the inside. Balance and counterbalance.
Bubble balance. That brings me back. Two weights, one for the outside of the rim, one for the inside. Balance and counterbalance.
Yes that's exactly how we did it. And you know what, we drove the cars and I don't ever recall having issues. Now we didn't track the car like are doing but driving on the street, every car and truck of the period was balanced like that. spin balancers came later and I was out working on machine tools by then so I never got involved with them. Different times, not all good but I think better than what's going on today.
Back in the day when I was a line chev tech and somehow I was second in command to mount tires. Hated the job. The service manager was super picky when it came to balancing tires. No 5 ounce plus lead weights on one side or the other side of the rims. We didn't do many mags. The service manager made us dismount the tire and rotate the tire so it was 2 oz or less. Zero come backs.
I still have a bubble balancer around LOL. Doesn't get used much. It'll still work when the zombie apocolypse occurs. And they work great for balancing out-of-round tires! ha ha. Yeah breaking the bead to rotate tires on a wheel via a standard Coats tire changer back in the day was a real pain. Course we didn't have very many pickup trucks running around with 32-33 and 35" meats either like so many do today.
The modern Hunter tire changers make rotating the wheel so much easier.
I still have a bubble balancer around LOL. Doesn't get used much. It'll still work when the zombie apocolypse occurs. And they work great for balancing out-of-round tires! ha ha. Yeah breaking the bead to rotate tires on a wheel via a standard Coats tire changer back in the day was a real pain. Course we didn't have very many pickup trucks running around with 32-33 and 35" meats either like so many do today.
The modern Hunter tire changers make rotating the wheel so much easier.
True, but when spinning a freshly mounted tire, at least the beads broke down pretty easily, as it didn't have enough time to really stick itself to the rim.......
