Alignment's not too hard either - I just made a couple of brackets out of spare wood I had and strapped them to the wheels. String and a tape measure got it close enough. At least drives straight now.
You do need to make sure the tires and wheels are clean, as a bit of grease or mud can way an ounce or more and when it dries and falls off your balancing will have to be done over again. Do not sand the finish to appy the weights, just clean it well and maybe use a debrease such as alcohol (brake cleaner) or paint thinner. lighter fluid or in worst case scenario, soap and water and rag.
I like the thought you put into this. My cellphone bubble is more sensitive than I expected. A big plus. The reason your bubble wasn't centered at first, is that your cellphone wasn't centered. The bubble is sensitive enough to measure this. Perhaps a holder which would center your cellphone over the point would be more appropriate for accuracy sake. But I thank you so much for the food for thought. Obviously you use your head for more than just a place to put your hat. Keep up the good work.
I balanced my tire with bb's, well it was shaking some I didn't like it, so I took the back out, and I do not have a balance yet am planning on getting one like you here, so, I put my tires back on the rims again to day, and on all tires they have a colored dot some where on the tire, that dot indicates that the light place in the tire, so I put that dot next to the valve, and posed on the rim, aired it up to 33 lb's, added 1 once strait up from the valve, and I did this on all my tires, it's perfect no shaking shimming nothing, and if I didn't put that colored dot next to the valve stem, then, I couldn't add a wait strait up from my valve, the wait would have to be off centered to one side , and 3/4 of a once our a once is perfect to me , it's just as good as if I would have got the garage to it and paid 60 dollars, so there, we don't even have to have a balancer to install a tire if we do it right and is there no dot on the tire, look for that little whit sticker next to the bead part of the tire, we that have to go next to the valve , that's if we cant find that colored dot.
i know Im asking randomly but does someone know of a method to get back into an instagram account..? I somehow forgot my account password. I appreciate any help you can offer me!
Dont give up on the idea but major fail in execution. First off "about centre" on your punch(no good) 2nd using a non centred phone and thinking it don't weigh anything and will not contribute to the balance. Small mistakes compound and you may be better off running no weights then maybe putting weight on the side that was already heavy. Take your time make sure the device will stay balanced without a rim then make sure your rim centres on your balancer. Good Luck on the project ;)
Have you used Counteract Balancing Beads in a car? I'm curious how it worked out because Counteract does NOT recommend the use of their beads in cars. Weird because they claim their beads can be used in just about everything else. Why not cars?
be aware of where your mic is on that cam, your audio is all over the place due to your position in relation to your mic. Great content though very helpful. thumbs up..
...and then, drive with your TOE-IN the vehicle and have a friend sit on the other side of the vehicle with a TOE-OUT and everything should be just fine!
Problem number one is this is not easily reproducible for anyone looking for help. BIG problem number 2 is the phone if not centered will easily put it off balance giving you a false reading
May i remind you that land speed records were set with wheels balanced using this technique, (although a little more precisely :) long before digital dynamic balancers that you see in tyre shops today..
Don't need no steenking $5000.00 digital read out spin balancer with a $1000.00 worth of weight inventory to balance a tire on a $500.00 beater with a heater. What a great idea. I have a Coats M76 bubble balancer that I've been using for over 30 years. Hundreds of tires balanced and still going until someone dropped something on the bubble glass and broke it. Of course it's obsolete now so no part available and can't use it. Was looking here for ideas, didn't know there was a level app for my phone. Was thinking of those little round stick on trailer bubble levels but don't see how it can be as sensitive as the original.
Hard to watch your good intentions, better view would be if your phone video was not shaking so much shaking, distracts more attention to your videos where it is hard to watch when shaking attends. But yet I am gonna work with your idea, keep inventing👍🏽🦅
Lmao. "that's close enough" and "that's good enough for me". Umm, no. "close enough" isn't good enough. 10Kth of a degree off is a pretty big deal buddy!
Funny, because I've fitted literally thousands of tyres as a mechanic and used every model from the Hunters and Sequoia's and everything in between to balance tyres. Even with high end machines like that you'd always have the weight a mm or two out. Unavoidable. You're just another internet shitposting expert that hasn't got a fucking clue what you're talking about. Keep it shut until you actually have knowledge.
So what you are saying is your homemade balancer works better them the Harbor Freight bubble balance? when you used your HF balancer did you calibrate it?
The guy sounds like he's from the south / back woods and probably cheap. I take mine to the shop and that way help support local business. The next video might be how to tune up your engine without equipment.
if you are driving on a strait highway and your steering wheel is not strait , it's down to the left our down to the right side a little this for a front wheel drive , well that do mean that one of your wheels are to far in , if it's sagging to the left the steering wheel, well that means your left front wheel drivers side is to far in and the same for the right side that the passengers side, well on a front wheel drive car the alignment is toe in toe out, don't need and to in our out on a front wheel drive car , if you do you will have out side corner scuff our in side ware, you need a (not toe in not out out,) it's like making a good measure from center thread of the 2 front tires , like behind the front tires in a middles thread , and in front of the front tires in the middle thread, and do not tell that the tires not going strait, because it is not out this much to make ware the tires, a tape don't lie but the lazier computer crap do, and when you have this all measured like am talking about, you will see what i mean, when the measuring looks close, make sure that all thing are tightening up, try the car, see where the steering wheel is when you drive on a strain highway, if the steering wheel is still a little to one side , now you cant adjust a big amount at a time , like 1/4 of a inch, to what ever side the steering wheel is still down at right our left side, then do a tire measure again, if you do it like this you will get you steering wheel centered with each front wheel from the car center line, and the center of the 2 front wheels, and let me tell you something, when you get this all right your car is going handle like pro you wont believe it how good it changeling in turns and going strait with no presume on the right our left of the steering wheel, i did it and i know that it do work and works good ,because i am tire of paying alignment garages for nothing, making it worse then it was before i got them to fix it , thy made it worse, thy even left a big pair of vice grips hooked up on the tire rod, and when i took it from the garage the vice grips hit the road, thy are 3 thing, thy don't know how to work the alignment equipment , our it is not working right, our thy do so thy you will have to go back and get did again , because thy set it out of speck anyways .
that's more dry rot than I care to run on my tires. With rot like that , out of balance shouldn't be a problem because that tire should never reach highway speed.
