{"id":2791,"date":"2011-09-22T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:16:52","slug":"liquid-tire-balancing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/liquid-tire-balancing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid tire balancing again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid tire balancing again<\/p>\n<p>After running a <a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/vibration-diagnosis\/\">vibration analysis on my Jeep<\/a> and finding the tires to be the culprit I decided to try to balance them. My bubble balancer showed they were not too bad so I was sure the trouble was dynamic balance.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the tires dynamically balanced at a local shop costs over $50 so I wanted to find a way to do this myself.  I have experimented with <a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/automatic-wheel-balance\/\">liquid balancing in the past<\/a> with reasonably good results. So I decided to give it a try on these stubborn BFGs.<\/p>\n<p>I first removed all the lead weights. I then removed the valve cores to let all the air out. I then broke the bead on one side to make a place to put in the liquid.<\/p>\n<p>I used some used antifreeze that I had handy. I weighed the heaviest of the four wheel weights and put about that much liquid in each tire. I just poured it between the rim and the tire bead.<\/p>\n<p>I reseated the beads and inflated the tires back to 30 psi.  I then put then back on the Jeep and returned the nicely balanced smooth running Goodyears to their owner.<\/p>\n<p>The first test drive showed that the shimmy at 55 was mostly gone.  It is so slight as to be able to completely ignore it.  <\/p>\n<p>I took it to the interstate and did a quick speed run. I could only hit 70 due to traffic but I was happy to note the mirror shake was gone.  The ride was not as smooth as the Goodyears but it is certainly acceptable.  I will have to try again later to see how it runs at higher speed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/click-3317290-10544328\" target=\"_top\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lduhtrp.net\/image-3317290-10544328\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Tire Rack- Revolutionizing Tire Buying\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid tire balancing again After running a vibration analysis on my Jeep and finding the tires to be the culprit I decided to try to balance them. My bubble balancer showed they were not too bad so I was sure the trouble was dynamic balance. Getting the tires dynamically balanced at a local shop costs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/liquid-tire-balancing-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liquid tire balancing again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[210,6],"tags":[335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}