AngleT
Always more tuning to do
OK, I love my CD91's,
but I've been told for years now that they are bent. The vibration was pretty bad, but I only used them when I was having issues with my Keizer 15" rims, so I didn't worry about it too much. I did buy another set off ebay, but the finish on them was pretty sad looking and I never mounted tires on them.
So, after 7+ years of tire shops telling me that they were bent, I decided to see for myself and took them to the auto skills center on the military base near my house. I took the tires off the rims and put the rims, by themselves, on the balancing machine. Yep, they were wobbling pretty bad. Then it dawned on me. I always had to add a little electrical tape to get the center caps to stay in the rim. "I bet that someone over torqued the cone into the center cap and bent the rim at that point. Not the rim was bent."
So, I remounted the rim on the machine with the cone inserted into the backside of the rim. What do you know... they didn't wobble any more!!!
I remounted my tires and and balanced them with the cone on the backside of the rim and they did need some weight, but not a lot. Not like the 20lbs of lead I had to take off from the last shop that tried to balance them.
Put the cone in on this side.
Bent center cap mount will throw off the whole rim balance if the cone is inserted on this side.
Just thought I would share my newly aquired knowlege.
but I've been told for years now that they are bent. The vibration was pretty bad, but I only used them when I was having issues with my Keizer 15" rims, so I didn't worry about it too much. I did buy another set off ebay, but the finish on them was pretty sad looking and I never mounted tires on them.
So, after 7+ years of tire shops telling me that they were bent, I decided to see for myself and took them to the auto skills center on the military base near my house. I took the tires off the rims and put the rims, by themselves, on the balancing machine. Yep, they were wobbling pretty bad. Then it dawned on me. I always had to add a little electrical tape to get the center caps to stay in the rim. "I bet that someone over torqued the cone into the center cap and bent the rim at that point. Not the rim was bent."
So, I remounted the rim on the machine with the cone inserted into the backside of the rim. What do you know... they didn't wobble any more!!!
I remounted my tires and and balanced them with the cone on the backside of the rim and they did need some weight, but not a lot. Not like the 20lbs of lead I had to take off from the last shop that tried to balance them.
Put the cone in on this side.
Bent center cap mount will throw off the whole rim balance if the cone is inserted on this side.
Just thought I would share my newly aquired knowlege.
