automatic tire balancing ?

[haygood at aemail4u.com (Haygood)]

Please excuse me for not taking the time to follow the relevant links.

My suggestion is to take the wheel to a machine shop and ask them if they can true the hole in it for you.  This would likely require welding some material to fill in the hole slightly, then mounting it into a lathe and re-cutting the hole to be true again.  Otherwise you could just have them hog out the hole and cut a ring to press-fit into the new hole.  That might be best because welding can change aluminum's properties significantly for some aluminum types.  This requires a pretty large lathe and some time setting stuff up, but it would be the best solution if you could get it done for a decent price.  At least look into it, especially if you can find a machinist on base or something.

BH


--- "Allyn" <amalventano@sc.rr.com> wrote:
>so, what was the cost of the equal?
>cost of the valve stems?
>Al
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "John Van Vuren" <veedublu@prod.net>
>To: "scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:46 PM
>Subject: Re: automatic tire balancing ?
>
>
>> I've got the Equal tire balancing product in the big tires on my Toyota
>(39"
>> tall radials with a small block Chevy turning them).
>>
>> My truck drives like it has 31's on it...   no vibration, no wandering,
>nice
>> even tire wear, etc.  Most big (over 37") tires are not radials and are
>just
>> miserable to drive.  I'm not sure if the good behavior of my truck is
>> because of the high quality tires (Michelins, not cheap, and extremely
>hard
>> to get) or the Equal.
>>
>> If you are willing to pop the bead, you don't need any special equipment
>to
>> install the Equal.  It comes in a drop-in bag that you can simply place in
>> the tire, re-inflate, and the bag will break apart as you drive.  Each bag
>> includes a special filtered valve stem to prevent the Equal from escaping
>if
>> you want to lower the air pressure, etc.
>>
>> A friend has a set of the Centramatic balancers...  they work very well,
>but
>> I would think they'd be too heavy and mess up the looks of your car.
>>
>> I really like the Equal, but as mentioned above it could just be nice
>tires
>> :)
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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