Date:         Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:26:54 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Wheel balancing
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net>
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The local tire shop does a great job on mine, steel wheels and alloys alike.

Are your wheels round and straight?

On 6/14/07, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
>
>   How does everyone go about getting their tires balanced correctly?  Is
> there a certain type of balancer that one needs to find in a shop?  I recall
> reading that our wheels are 'lug-centric' or some such thing that I've not
> encountered elsewhere.
>   Usually, I use my own bubble balancer, have done so on my race car and
> street car wheels, but the vanagon rims, it doesn't seem to work very
> well..I get them close, about as good as my local Les Schwab does with their
> computer spin balance machine..Which is to say  that I still have irritating
> shimmy..low intensity..not too bad, but bad enough to try to balance them
> again, better.
>   Any advice on this subject?
>   Thanks, Don Hanson
>



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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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