Balancing Magnum 500's?????

67GTCOUPE

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Got my new Magnum 500's

Installed my tires, but I cannot balance them at my tire shop......seems they want you to use a special balancer that uses lug nut holes to balance?!?

Anyway, I will take it to another shop that has that machine tomorrow.

Do you guys recommend the stick on weights for chrome steel rims???

Thanks

 

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bnickel

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i would just use the regular steel wheel weights, you get a better balance

 

stangman67

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i couldnt balance mine because one was bent brand new. I used steel wieghts.

 

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Fomocohipo

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Use steel weights but put them on the inside so you dont see them, thats how I had mine untill I got new tires n they screwed it up.

 

Max Power

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St Paul

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These wheels are a pet peeve of mine. Bought a set for my 69 six years ago and they balanced out fine using simple hub-centric balancing. Guess I got lucky.

Got the same size set for my Maverick last year, and even with lug-centric balancing, I am having a lot of problems. These wheels aint cheap. You think they could make them hub-centric.

 

Jsprint68

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I forget what its called but not all rims are balanced the same way. I think the original Magnum was balanced by the lugholes because the centers were slightly off. I guess it would depend on if yours were the originals, original centers with new rims, an exact copy of the original or on the other hand a totally new rim.

 

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Ozsum67

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They need to be balanced lug centric, not hub centric. The tire shop should have an adapter to do this, unless .............