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by **cat007** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:04 pm

Hi all

Noticed today, and possibly yesterday, but today it's really bad.
There's a shudder, almost like a really out of balance wheel.
I cant see any missing weights

I did notice however, that when slowing down, you can feel what appears to be a flat spot.

Either a flat spot or the wheel is no longer round

I've not locked the brakes so cant see how it could be a flat spot. Can wheels become oval if they are old, or maybe taken past their max speed etc?

Cheers

Hunt

by **Crampy** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:13 pm

Chuck it on a balancer, that should reveal all.

by **tsoob** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:50 pm

flat spot on the tyre? handbrakies at all bro?

bring it down if u like will spin it up

Toyspeed Profile - MrOizo · by **MrOizo** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:52 pm

If it has been sitting in one spot for a while it could result in a flat spot.

Main reason the yanks put their cars on stands during the winters.

by **Adoom** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:39 pm

Is one of your brake rotors warped or cracked maybe?

by **Loudtoy** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:39 pm

Could be that you just have a bulge in one of your tires, that will make it feel like that as well

by **cat007** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:29 pm

tsoob wrote:flat spot on the tyre? handbrakies at all bro?

bring it down if u like will spin it up

haha nah - no handbrakies - too hard with a 'twist and release' handbrake

I'll see if I can take a long lunch one day and shoot over the bridge for a visit

by **cat007** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:30 pm

Loudtoy wrote:Could be that you just have a bulge in one of your tires, that will make it feel like that as well

Yeah could be - Might take the tyres off either tonight or tomorrow night and see if I can visually see any disformations'

by **79rolla** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:27 pm

also check you don't have a buildup if dirt ect on the inside of the rim, that can put a wheel out of balance by quite alot..

also as tiers wear the balancing can be affected depending on the imperfections/defects in the tier (is worse on cheaper tiers)

by **cat007** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:04 pm

79rolla wrote:also check you don't have a buildup if dirt ect on the inside of the rim, that can put a wheel out of balance by quite alot..

Good point - I'll take a hose to the rims

79rolla wrote:also as tiers wear the balancing can be affected depending on the imperfections/defects in the tier (is worse on cheaper tiers)

Seems strange that it happened overnight though....

by **79rolla** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:11 pm

if it is dirt then youl need to take to them with a scraper of some form, a hose wont do much lol

to check for out of round/buldges you can just jack it up and spin the wheel and watch it compered to one spit on the inner guard, the surface should stay in the same place, if it moves a bit youv got a problem, if you get what i mean

if none of that works take it off for a look and you may need to take it for a balance.

also it could be a wheel alignment issue if none of that works

prosses of elimination :wink:

by **cat007** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:08 pm

Well I didn't take the wheels off but found what appears to be a bulge about 4 inches long running around the inside of the tyre.

The tyres have heaps of tread but must be old as they're all cracked around the base of the tread.

Bit of a shame as I cant afford new tyres right now. Maybe I'll just chuck my supra rims on

by **Bazda** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:34 pm

Did you manage to put on the bigger brakes?

by **cat007** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:00 pm

Bazda wrote:Did you manage to put on the bigger brakes?

The ali is cut and ready to be picked up, (probably tomorrow now) then this weekend I'll drill and tap the holes. Then put em all on wahoo

by **cat007** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:55 am

Well the tyre burst last night so no need to get it balanced haha

Have got spare on but will need a replacement

Nick if you're reading this - do you have, or can you get some of those light truck tyres like what I bought off you last time? I can't remember the size - can you? haha

by **Mr Revhead** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:15 am

you found that bulge and kept driving on it??

by **tsoob** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:27 am

cat007 wrote:Well the tyre burst last night so no need to get it balanced haha

Have got spare on but will need a replacement

Nick if you're reading this - do you have, or can you get some of those light truck tyres like what I bought off you last time? I can't remember the size - can you? haha

yeah man i can get it you just need 1? or want to do the pair.

Nick

by **cat007** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:45 am

tsoob wrote:
yeah man i can get it you just need 1? or want to do the pair.

Nick

Just 1 for now. The other seems to be fine

by **tsoob** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:18 pm

cat007 wrote:
tsoob wrote:
yeah man i can get it you just need 1? or want to do the pair.

Nick

Just 1 for now. The other seems to be fine

ok its here now bro will be open tomorrow 930-12

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