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Old 10-11-2002, 01:03 PM
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A Snake, I appreciate your reply. I did use the stick on weights that you mention. A spin balance will tell you to put weight on the inside lip or outside lip and how much to put on. My point is on the front wheels the offset is nearly 50/50 or neutral.Having said that. the tape weights that are called for on the outer lip of the wheel can only go on the inside of the wheel as close to the center section of the wheel as possible. The problem is, the taped weights are not close enough to the outer rim to get a corrected reading. They are only about 4 inches (remember this is a 8 inch wheel) from the inner rim lip and as such the balancer is reading them as weights pertaining to the inside lip. In other words, if I had 6 inches or so of back space (more than 50% of a 8inch wheel) I would be ok. but I don't If you imagined the wheel cross section and visualised a center line of the wheel. outer weights would have to be place on one side and inner weights on the other side. This is not possible on my wheels as I have nearly neutral back space or 50/50 offset. The back wheels have more back space and I may be ok on them. Thjis is very hard to explain, taped weights, yeah I'm there just can't locate them far enough to the outside of the wheel.
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