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Tom Coradeschi
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> On 06 Sep 2020, at 6:17 PM, old dirtbeard <dirtbeard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What I have found true for motorcycle wheels is that the valve stem in fact
> often is not the heaviest segment of the wheel. I now balance my wheels first
> without a tire and spray paint inside the rim the heaviest point, and then
> align the yellow dot to that spot.
>
> You only need to do the wheel balance once (the wheel balance should not
> change over time) and it has reduced the amount of weight necessary for the
> balance job.
>
> best,
>
> doug
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 2:49 PM Brian Kemp <bk13@earthlink.net> wrote:
> New tires have had a dot indicating where the tire should line up close to
> the valve stem. I got new tires for my new to me GT6 and thought they used a
> lot of weight - a 4" long one near a 2" long one. Wondered if my rims might
> be bad. Commented to a club member and they pointed out that my tires were
> mostly mounted about 180 deg off based on the tire marking vs. the valve
> stem. Went back and talked to a manager and he said sometimes tires can take
> that much weight - not a problem with the big SUVs every drives these days.
> Told him they were little 13" tires and he came out and looked at the car.
> He had an experienced person adjust and rebalance the tires and the longest
> weight was then under 2".
>
> Brian
>
> On 9/5/2020 6:24 PM, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
>> Two thoughts:
>>
>> I have some really good foam tape - maybe 3M? You can find it in all the
>> usual places.
>>
>> I was always under the impression that new tires had a stamp thar indicated
>> either the heavy spot or the light spot - it was meant to be mounted next to
>> the valve stem. That was supposed to minimize the amount of additional
>> weight that needed to be applied. It's been 40 years since I balanced a
>> tire, though - things may have changed.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:37 AM <eric@megageek.com> wrote:
>> So I been balancing wheels for a while now and I was wondering. Can I just
>> buy the double sided tape to reuse all the stick on wheel weights I have to
>> remove each time?
>>
>> It seems like a no brainier to be able to reuse the weights, but I can't
>> find a double sided tape for that. (I'm guessing it needs to be pretty good
>> stuff to resist bumps, water, ice, dirt, etc.)
>>
>> All my searches come up with the weights already on the tape, but I just
>> want to tape.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> BTW, does anyone have any tips on how to balance tires? I've watched a
>> bunch of videos, but it always seems that I need to balance and add weights
>> 5 or 6 times and end up putting on what seems like a lot of
>> weight for each tire.
>>
>> Just wondering.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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