Slick Balancing?
Do you get your drag slicks balanced?
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+1 for balancing
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Where and how?
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make sure the weights cant come off
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Yes I also get my slicks balanced.
They can not use out side weights. They have to use tape weights. Then you have to tape them down with a duct tape grade or better. Just think of it as out of balanced rotating mass. Think of the carnage it would do if that was your crank. |
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for sure
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I worked for a tire shop back from '82-'91. Not sure how the balancers have changed in those years but it's tricky if you have a DEEP polished lip and don't want tape weights on the outside of your wheels. Most balancers, at least back then, split the wheel down the middle and gave you a weight for each side making it hard to tape to just the inside. If you find someone or a shop that knows what they are doing, they make glue on weights that are just like a repair patch for fixing a flat. Usually used for balancing semi tires but you can cut them down and actually buff/glue them to the inside of the tire requiring far less weight to balance because it is so far to the outside like the heavy spot in the tire! Just a thought.
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The tape on weights and then cover them with a piece of aluminum duct tape is what I usually do. BUT if you have disks make sure you know where the disks run in the wheel so the weights don't hit. A 15" wheel with a 3+" backspace gets REAL CLOSE to the Willwood / Aerospace calipers.
I have to find a shop that is willing to slip a magnet in the hood sensor to bypass the hood safety when your using big pfhat wide tires. Most hoods and computer balancers wont accept anything over a 11 or 12" slick. |
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I've had good luck, dismounting the tire and moving it on the rim.
most times you can get it real close this way u only need small weights.. |
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They're not "Drag Slicks" but I do balance my M/T ET Street radials...no reason not to. Makes driving to work on them a little nicer ;)
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Guess i need screws then, my hoosier D/R's turn on the wheel. Then shakes like... well you know. I peeled off the weights.
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I used my window chalk to mark my tire and wheel. |
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Does doing burnouts throw the slicks off balance? Just wondering. I didn't get my slicks balanced this time because I didn't trust any of the shops around here(100+ miles from the nearest big city). So far I haven't had shaking or vibrating problems.
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the slicks i ran on my old mustang were balanced then duct taped over. never had a problem with the tire spinnin on the rim though. did the same thing and marked the valvestem location on rim/tire to check for play and never had anything move. |
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