Slick Balancing?

[68racer]

Do you get your drag slicks balanced?

[Keith Seymore]

Yes.

K

[swb85]

+1 for balancing

[C-10 simplex]

Where and how?

[Allensracing]

make sure the weights cant come off

[68 C-10 KID]

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.

[vincentgkirkland]

for sure

[prostreetC-10]

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.

[Marv D]

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.

[stich626]

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..

[Wasted Income]

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

[KQQL IT]

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.

[68 C-10 KID]

Originally Posted by KQQL IT

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.

LOL. I ran a pair of M/T et streets last year with no bead screws and spun both sides a full 1" That was only on 1 nights worth of racing.
I used my window chalk to mark my tire and wheel.

[team39763]

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.

[noonzor]

Originally Posted by team39763

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.

correct me if im wrong someone please. but im pretty sure the burnout actually helps level the tire for better balance.... like i said, correct me if im wrong.

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.