He doesn't know wut hes doin. He used 2 people & doesn't realize there's tire bead lube for mounting. When his water solution of dawn rusts out the inside of rim, hell understand.
yours looks so much fancier than mine (stock for stock). I'm going to have to look into upgrading mine because I've just used brute strength and aggression to change tires
I knew this would be right up your alley WJH. Yeah I've done 10 trailer tires in the last year and after doing the last set of trailer tires 100% manually I was done with it so I ponied up the money for this setup. I was all set to buy a full on tire machine and balance right one covid hit to make some extra money but the reality of it is, I just don't have the space for a big modern tire machine.
Maybe put an old rag between the wheel and the tightener cone/tube thing to help prevent scratches otherwise looked very smooth nice job , thanks for the video going to put a tire on today wish me luck
You could definitely try a rag but I think as much torque as you do to clamp the wheel it will probably cookie cut the rag. You could try an old piece of vinyl or leather maybe? Let us know how your job turns out! Dismounting low profiles is harder than mounting we've come to find out. So be prepared for that if you are dismounting. Once the beads are broken and you clamp the wheel using the duckhead on the outer bead is super easy. Getting the inner bead off to full remove the tire is the PITA. Tire wants to fall off the duckhead. Helps to have two people. If you run into that problem. I will probably do a dismount specific video to show our workaround for this. Just need another job to do to show this.
Great video and thanks for sharing! I used a bubble balancer also to balance my tires and it worked great but before I used it I did the modification on it where you drill out the hole where the pin sits and it makes it move freely. There's vids on how to here on TH-cam
Much to my surprise the amazon balancer I bought has apparently been revised by chi na as it has a fine point on the pin and the head has a more open hole. Out of the box it wold wobble for days and never grind to a halt. I was all prepared to have to modify it. I was generally happy with the results we got with it too. Looking forward to trying it again.
4.4 inches at the widest point. I think it is going to work for nearly everything including steelies. Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHNZ7YTC?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
I'm gonna tentatively say yes. So here's the deal. We balanced them really well and bolted them on. Car drives glass smooth until you hit exactly 67mph and then starts vibrating. I wasn't too worried about it and drove it a couple hundred miles trouble free and generally pretty happy with it. That being said as an experiment I took them on thursday to my local family owned tire shop that has a hunter road force balancer. There was surprisingly very little change. I think they added a 1/4 oz weight to the inner beads on 3 of the 4 wheels and a few other minor changes. Went out and took it on the freeway and sure as shit it starts to vibrate at exactly 67mph. So I think what I have going on here is a loose fit up at the hubcentric portion to the hub on my rear wheel spacers. So I am going to shim the spacers to the stock hubs and take that slop up and see if the problem goes way. The hubcentric to wheel from the spacer is tight as hell so I know it's not there. I will report back if that fixes it. If that doesn't fix it I'll be making the switch to ARP long wheel studs and billet spacers for the rear. If all else fails I'll bolt these tires and wheels on to my sons 4th gen camaro SS and see if his car vibrates with them. That being said my car did not vibrate at all with the old set of tires even well into the triple digits.
@@PNW_Car_Mods Getting within 1/4 oz is really good, so I would say your bubble balancer is good. Especially as it was pretty much verified with the Hunter machine. 65 on the freeway was where I found vibration problems early on, found my HF bubbler was poorly made too which didn't help. Plus I put the weights on wrong with my first wheels (rim weights). Since then I use the stick-ons, as close as I can get them to the wheels vertical CG plane. That ended dynamic imbalance for me. Video for finding where to find the wheel CG, for weight placement th-cam.com/video/fwqR13Do1XY/w-d-xo.html I use hub centric rings for balancing hubs with larger diameters, so I can use the same steel ball. They are kind of tight, so that should have worked. Nice to be able to swap wheels on vehicles. That should definitely reveal the source of the vibration. Good luck
He doesn't know wut hes doin. He used 2 people & doesn't realize there's tire bead lube for mounting. When his water solution of dawn rusts out the inside of rim, hell understand.
Bahahahahahahhahahahaha. JFC. That is all.
@@PNW_Car_Mods Shup peasant.
4:30 half - yes half - the directional tires I've had professionally mounted were put on wrong and I had to take back and have them flipped SMDH
Boy have I been there a couple times. Thankfully the shops I use have always been cool about it fixing it in a timely manner and not wrecking stuff.
yours looks so much fancier than mine (stock for stock). I'm going to have to look into upgrading mine because I've just used brute strength and aggression to change tires
I knew this would be right up your alley WJH. Yeah I've done 10 trailer tires in the last year and after doing the last set of trailer tires 100% manually I was done with it so I ponied up the money for this setup. I was all set to buy a full on tire machine and balance right one covid hit to make some extra money but the reality of it is, I just don't have the space for a big modern tire machine.
double layer painters masking tape also works on protecting the lip
anything is better than nothing when trying to maintain a perfect finish.
Maybe put an old rag between the wheel and the tightener cone/tube thing to help prevent scratches otherwise looked very smooth nice job , thanks for the video going to put a tire on today wish me luck
You could definitely try a rag but I think as much torque as you do to clamp the wheel it will probably cookie cut the rag. You could try an old piece of vinyl or leather maybe? Let us know how your job turns out! Dismounting low profiles is harder than mounting we've come to find out. So be prepared for that if you are dismounting. Once the beads are broken and you clamp the wheel using the duckhead on the outer bead is super easy. Getting the inner bead off to full remove the tire is the PITA. Tire wants to fall off the duckhead. Helps to have two people. If you run into that problem. I will probably do a dismount specific video to show our workaround for this. Just need another job to do to show this.
Great video and thanks for sharing! I used a bubble balancer also to balance my tires and it worked great but before I used it I did the modification on it where you drill out the hole where the pin sits and it makes it move freely. There's vids on how to here on TH-cam
Much to my surprise the amazon balancer I bought has apparently been revised by chi na as it has a fine point on the pin and the head has a more open hole. Out of the box it wold wobble for days and never grind to a halt. I was all prepared to have to modify it. I was generally happy with the results we got with it too. Looking forward to trying it again.
Nice work. You make manual labor look easy. 😅 They'll look great.
Thanks mark! Few little things to clear up today but I really dig the new look.
Do you have a link to where you got that aluminum cone and how large is it?
4.4 inches at the widest point. I think it is going to work for nearly everything including steelies. Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHNZ7YTC?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
Did bubble balancing work for you?
I'm gonna tentatively say yes. So here's the deal. We balanced them really well and bolted them on. Car drives glass smooth until you hit exactly 67mph and then starts vibrating. I wasn't too worried about it and drove it a couple hundred miles trouble free and generally pretty happy with it. That being said as an experiment I took them on thursday to my local family owned tire shop that has a hunter road force balancer. There was surprisingly very little change. I think they added a 1/4 oz weight to the inner beads on 3 of the 4 wheels and a few other minor changes. Went out and took it on the freeway and sure as shit it starts to vibrate at exactly 67mph. So I think what I have going on here is a loose fit up at the hubcentric portion to the hub on my rear wheel spacers. So I am going to shim the spacers to the stock hubs and take that slop up and see if the problem goes way. The hubcentric to wheel from the spacer is tight as hell so I know it's not there. I will report back if that fixes it. If that doesn't fix it I'll be making the switch to ARP long wheel studs and billet spacers for the rear. If all else fails I'll bolt these tires and wheels on to my sons 4th gen camaro SS and see if his car vibrates with them. That being said my car did not vibrate at all with the old set of tires even well into the triple digits.
@@PNW_Car_Mods
Getting within 1/4 oz is really good, so I would say your bubble balancer is good. Especially as it was pretty much verified with the Hunter machine.
65 on the freeway was where I found vibration problems early on, found my HF bubbler was poorly made too which didn't help. Plus I put the weights on wrong with my first wheels (rim weights). Since then I use the stick-ons, as close as I can get them to the wheels vertical CG plane. That ended dynamic imbalance for me.
Video for finding where to find the wheel CG, for weight placement th-cam.com/video/fwqR13Do1XY/w-d-xo.html
I use hub centric rings for balancing hubs with larger diameters, so I can use the same steel ball. They are kind of tight, so that should have worked. Nice to be able to swap wheels on vehicles. That should definitely reveal the source of the vibration.
Good luck
Good teamwork. Smart the way you did it.
Thank you Merc!
Nice job guys! Cool upgrade to the Corvette 👍
Thank you sir. Looking forward to doing this some more and perfecting it!
Thanks for sharing. The wheels look great!
Glad you like them! So far nothing but positive compliments. Always appreciate your comments deon.