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Hey folks I've been doing some research for a problem I am sure somone else has already solved. I'm putting together a 67 roadster for a lady a few hundred miles away and we are now looking at buying tires. My usual tire guy closed up his shop how ever and I cant seem to find any one local who can balance a wire wheel.
I took a look on line and found these folks http://wirewheelaccessories.co.uk/contact-us.html. who offer a 40mm set of adapters Which should fit the shaft of the new machines at the local pep boys. But it seems they don't take international orders looking at their web site.
Is there a US company that is offering these?

A bit much for a single balance job but I bought a used w/w hub and had the inner taper machined so it was perfectly concentric. I then bored the center of an old octagonal knock-off. Cost $50 for machining. Whenever I balance my wheels I bring the hub/knock-off assembly and it fits any spin balancer. It replicates how the wheel is mounted on the car. Otherwise, I've used an old school bubble balancer with stick-on weights at home. Both work OK as long as wheels aren't bent or wobbly.

Can you find a shop that balances the wheels on the car?

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Yeah the owner of the car is not going to be able to bubble balance her rims. Let alone if she gets stuck and needs a new tire she will have no place to go with out an adapter.

hmm didn't know that existed but not a bad idea.

http://smoothridecones.co.uk/ postage worldwide

No affiliation, No idea of quality

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Wiring Diagrams: http://www.advanceautowire.com/mgb.pdf
Paul Hunts very useful site: http://www.mgb-stuff.org.uk
Manual for download: http://www.geomatique-liege.be/MGJP/DocumentsPDF/MGB_Workshop_Manual.pdf
UK MoT guide: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/518634/mot-inspection-manual-for-class-3-4-5-and-7-vehicles.pdf
Some basic guides: http://www.howacarworks.com/

1970 Roadster (First Reg July 10 1970). Std exhaust (Bell SS) AFAIK rest is bog standard

Check if your Les Schwab in Paradise has the Hunter road force machine and the correct spline adapter
or if they know who near you has one.

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Hmmm, there is a Hunter training school in the industrial park close to my office. The could at least do my Rostyles. I'll ask about my splines. Might be worth having a hub machined.

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Moss has a how to on their site.

Any idiot with that and the factory adapter that came with the machine could do it.

The local MG club can tell you where to go.

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L.W.(Larry)Baygents
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77 Spit

Harbor Freight sells an inexpensive bubble balancer. It worked very well for me. Of course, I had to buy their portable tire mounter, too, because I couldn't find a shop to mount the tires on the wires, either. That also works well if you are willing to sweat a bit, and can bolt it to your floor.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB "Uroboros"

I took mine to an older mom and pop store that's local to me along with the Moss diagram and explained the best way to do it based on info here. They had to pull the correct adapters out of their storage building and they did a great job. Most places can do this if they have any smarts at all and give a sh!t about what they're doing.
Rut

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WIRE WHEEL BALANCING CONES

Balancing a wire wheel requires specialist equipment, given the costs and the low number of wire wheel vehicles on the road most tyre centres don't keep wire wheel balancing adaptors. Owners either have to travel to a specialist tyre fitter or take pot luck at their local tyre centre, who lacking the proper equipment are unable to find the true centre of the wheel.
With the latter option resulting in a set of imbalanced wheels which present steering wheel shake, premature and uneven wear of tyres and steering components.

MGOC Spares & Accessories stock Wire Wheel Cone kits suitable for all MGs. These compact kits are small enough to stow neatly in your MG and comprise an inner and outer cone manufactured in high tensile plastic and a pair of 36mm steel slip bushes to cover the vast majority of wheel balancing machines in use today.


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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2015-09-29 08:53 PM by GaryDLowrie.