Wheel Balancing

[napa68]

I thought I would take the time to post my experience in order to save someone else a headache.

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get a couple of sets of Ralley II's to balance out correctly. Up until recent, I was using a couple of shops to handle the tire work for my shop. Frustrated with the results, telling me the tires are out of round, the rims are bent, etc........I bought my own balancing equipment. I have also found out on the Ralley II's, there is no real consistent or concentric way to mount the wheel to the balancer using the cone method. If you rechuck the wheel, the balancer would give you different readings.

Using a pin plate (like you have to for Honeycombs) is the most accurate way to mount the wheel to the balancer, as you are replicating how its mounted to the car. I also rechucked the wheel indexing it differently than how I balanced it, and the results are the same

While some of you may already know this, I thought I could save someone the BS of getting the vibrations out of your car. I'd ask the question to your tire shop and request that pin plates are used (otherwise known a lug centric balancing). It is a bit more labor intensive, but the results are worth it.

Tim