Never had this with my chrome w/w wheels.
Had a spoke broken twice.
I fetched a replacement and went to the tyre specialist, where I ever bought
my tyres for the GT.
The guy overthere has been ever so helpful.
We replaced the spoke and brought it to comaprable tension as the other
spokes.
After this the tyre was put back on and balanced on his computer machine.
Both times without any cost and any problems after all.
Cheers,
Hans
'71 BGT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Charley Robinson" <charleyrob@charter.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Truing wire wheels and mounting, balancing tires
> Loose? Or broken? I have had chrome wires with chrome spokes and
> although
> they were fine for the first 8 or 9 years I find now that I break one or
> two
> per year. Truing isn't a problem, any classic bike place should be able
> to
> do that. Be very careful with balancing, most places with computer
> assisted
> balancing machines can't mount centre-lock wheels properly - in the UK at
> least. They *do* use the centre hole, but that is for modern stud-mounted
> wheels, and the cones they use to hold the wheel are not suitable for
> centre-locks. These have to be supported by an outer cone on the inside
> face of the wheel, which these machines do use, but by an outer cone on
> the
> outer face of the wheel which they do not. They will use another inner
> cone, and likely as not tell you your wheel is knackered and wobbling all
> over the place whereas it runs true on the car. There is a similar
> problem
> with Rostyles and V8 alloys, but with these the problem is that the centre
> hole was never designed for use on these machines (which came much later)
> and so are not concentric or accurate enough, so you need a place that can
> mount them using the stud holes.
>
> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I'm putting new tires on my MGA with knock-off wire wheels. When removing
>> the wheels from the car, I noticed that each wheel had a couple of loose
>> spokes. I would like to get the wheels trued up, which I believe should
>> be
>> done before mounting the tires and then get the tires mounted and
> balanced.
>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a shop that can do this work?
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