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Doug Woodin (24.170.175.22)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 6:14 pm: | |
Is anyone out there using the Centramatic centrifugal wheel ballancers on their bus? I have an out of ballance tire on my 1966 Eagle-01, but I don't know which one. I haven't been able to get someone to follow and report which on is hopping. It may be more than one, I don't know. The coach gets the "shakes" at 67 mph. The vibration can be felt in the steering wheel, and through the seat cusion. The guy that mounted my tires says that they don't ballance the big truck tires, just mount-um and go. Sounds like B.S. to me! Comments??? |
dounan.morton (65.96.80.66)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 7:14 pm: | |
yes, it is BS
i speed balance my coach tires AND all my truck tires ,always. the easiest place to do it is at a big truck stop and its reasonable . someplace like t/a or flying J, what have you in ypour travels. pull in , get in line at the tire bay tellem what you want, then go have dinner .
good luck ,
dounan 4104-204 |
Don KS/TX (63.15.249.106)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 11:35 pm: | |
I found when trucking that most of the big tire makers stores would not balance new tires, gave me the same story. I went to the centramatic balancers and never regretted it. When I sold the Kenworth, the centramatics stayed with me for the bus. Never a problem, and ALWAYS smooth. |
Tom Connolly (148.78.247.10)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 11:41 pm: | |
I love my centramatic balancers!
A bubble balance on the tires to be sure that they don't need indexing and centramatic balancers, never a problem!
Tom C |
Jojo Colina (Du1jec) (68.8.172.117)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 11:57 pm: | |
Counteract balancing beads have been recommended to me. Costs about $10 a tire. Drop a bag in the tire and inflate. The bag disintegrates and dissolves and the beads spread about and remain in place with static. Quieter than centramatics. |
Tom Connolly (148.78.247.10)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 09, 2002 - 12:45 am: | |
Additional to my post above!
I went with http://www.flatfree.com in the tires, and the centramatic balancers! the flatfree rules out the internal balance beads, however I also run flatfree in my 16" (on a E250) truck tires and there is a noticeable balancing effect with it as well. I've have run both separately and together, together is better.
Tom C |
FAST FRED (63.215.234.206)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 09, 2002 - 4:56 am: | |
I have read in the trucking mags that some fleets just drop 4 golf balls into the tire.(OOTA)
Its claimed to work as well or better than "store bought stuff" , but I personally haven't tried it yet.
After a new set of kingpins in Nov , I may give it a try.
FAST FRED |
DaveD (216.18.113.69)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 09, 2002 - 10:02 am: | |
I've run tires with Equal powder in them on my old motor home and had no problem with tire balance.
DaveD |
Jim Stacy (12.87.109.78)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 13, 2002 - 9:52 pm: | |
Equal is fine if you never put any moist air into the tire. Equal soaks up the moisture and sticks together. I removed the Equal from my tires, balanced the tires and put Centramatics on the front. Life is good....
Jim Stacy |