Honemade Tire Truing / Tire Shaving (1 Viewer)
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Why do you need to shave tires? Do they grow hair?
There is definitely only 3 fingers under that glove.
Hold my beer and watch this!
I'm assuming the reason to do this is to make the tire concentric on that warped wheel? Why not just get a wheel that is not warped?
I'm assuming the reason to do this is to make the tire concentric on that warped wheel? Why not just get a wheel that is not warped?
Not to mention the fact that this is totally inaccurate. Even if the rim was true, without mechanically regulating the tire rotational speed, the depth of the cut, and the perpendicular speed of the saw movement, there is no way that this is accurate. This also assumes that the construction of this jig is true to begin with.
surfpig
The Anti-Tech
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NLXTACY
Wits' End
Do yourself a favor and play devil's advocate with your next Google search, there are many, many reasons not to do this. Before modern tire tech (pre 1970's) this was common and needed. Now it's only done for race cars, for traction, not balance. Wheels are often not centered on the hub when mounted, so the only way to 'true' them is on the vehicle (as in your Ford video) but the moment you loosen the lugs you throw it off true again, only with less tread now. And of course with any homemade device, you're more likely to screw the camber up than get it right.
one of the uses is to correct for a scalloped tire. Scalloping usually happens from an alignment problem and once the tire is scalloped it will wear like that to the end. So if one was to correct the issue they then could resurface the tire and it wear normally once again and for the rest of it's life.
thatcabledude
GOLD Star
OP's truck sits on 48s or something huge. I'm assuming it has something to do with that.
