Date: 8 Sep 2001 18:14:55 -0600 From: "Ike Israel" <papaikenopsamhill.com> Subject: Re: Can Misalignment Cause Shimmy?
For what it is worth... I have found that most floor mount tire balancers are out of calibration. The way to test for this is to rotate the tire a third of the way on the shaft after it is balanced, if it spins at full speed without vibration, great, if not... it was not balanced. "Michael Pardee" <michaeltnopsamrtrails.com> wrote in message news:3B87C77D.331F66FAnopsamrtrails.com... > Harry Davis wrote: > > > > I agree. The last set of tires for my 9000 were purchased from and balanced > > by the tire shop. The balance them 3 or 4 times and they still vibrated. > > At the next service I had the dealer rebalance all four. No problem since > > and that was 30k miles ago. Recently we had a flat on my wife's 9-3. A > > different tire shop repaired and balanced the wheel. Significant vibration. > > Took it to the dealer and no vibration. Drove it to the Saab Owners > > Convention in Vero Beach FL so it got a good test. I believe the dealer has > > Hunter equipment. > > > Somebody posted a while back that Honda wheels need to be balanced while > held by the hole in the center, not by the lug holes. It would be a > subtle but important difference. > > Mike
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