What have you done to your 100 Series this week? (18 Viewers)
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I got a set of 275/70/18s from DiscountTire. The first time mine were balanced, they took a ton of weights. I wasn't impressed either. Brian at ACC said "We don't even try to balance them for the first 500 miles. We recommend you run them with no weights for 500 miles, then have them balanced". I mentioned this to the manager at DiscountTire who said "Yep, he's right. That's essentially doing a road force balance. And, that's what we're going to do to yours now" Gotta love DiscountTire.
bwell
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Drive way angle is misleading kind of. From center of front hub to fender 19.5"/rear is 20.5".Any other pics now that it's off the alignment rack???
-G
bwell
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Having grown up around the automotive service industry I highly dislike dealing with most any shop, especially tire franchises, "we do a free multi-point inspection anytime a vehicle comes in" don't touch a thing other than the f'ing lugnuts cheech. - I'm definitely a difficult consumer to have lurking around the whole time you are doing a set of tires. Meh.
I actually like the DiscountTire here in Atlanta. The 100 was in for a rotation and I told him I was getting some vibrations and the amount of weight needed to balance them seemed excessive. He agreed, and comp'ed the road force balance. These guys have never asked about belts or hoses or topped off my washer fluid. They do a good job staying in their lane.
Kofoed
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Changed out steering rack bushings.
I used air impact for driver side bolts, flex head ratchet for passenger side, all access from under the vehicle, vehicle on the ground. Used the old bolts as a punch to remove old bushings, and the all-thread-clamp tool to seat. Went pretty smoothly thanks to tips I found on Mud.
The flex-head ratchet, in general, is a great tool. It affords god access, and the longer handle gives you more leverage....I happened to have the angled handle rather than straight, as I dumped the old one off at Sears after the ratchet mechanism gave up
Removed the auto vent visors over the the driver and all passenger doors. Took a long time to get off all the tape residue but the look is much cleaner and it seems to have improved the wind noise problem I was having on the drivers side.
I used fishing line to cut through the tape backing the vent visors then manually removed what tape I could. Next I used alcohol to remove the remaining sticky residue and used polishing compound to buff out the tape marks and oxidization. Finally I put on a new coat of wax and it all looks like new.
I used fishing line to cut through the tape backing the vent visors then manually removed what tape I could. Next I used alcohol to remove the remaining sticky residue and used polishing compound to buff out the tape marks and oxidization. Finally I put on a new coat of wax and it all looks like new.
I have 5 tires sitting in my garage now, getting ready to install them in the next few wks. Should I just get road force balance during install? I bought these online and plan to have these installed by local store, so I cant just keep coming back to the installer and ask them to re-balance the tires for free.
Chris
The nice part about the road force balance is that they spin the tire/wheel with no weights and figure out the lowest spot on the rim and the highest spot on the tire and try to line them up to effectively "smooth out" any irregularities so that the outer perimeter of the tire is as round as possible.... basically they are trying to eliminate/minimize radial runout. Then they apply the wheel weights to deal with any lateral runout issues. There is a good YouTube animation video that explains it all really well... shouldn't be too hard to find.
I had the local Toyota dealer do a "regular" balance on my new tires and was NOT satisfied with it. Then they re-did it for free using the road-force balancer and the results were noticeably better.... personally, for the extra few dollars that it costs for a road-force balance I wouldn't even consider a regular balance anymore.
YMMV...
-G
@GregLCA thank you for the detailed reply. The last 5 sets of tires that I bought have been Michelin, and I never road-force balance them (I have heard the term but dont really understand it). Bought my first BFG tires here because of the price different with the Michelin, and I just like the look of KO2
Thank you again
Chris
IMO, road force balancing is essential on the LC. Never had a vehicle that was sensitive enough to require it before but it makes a noticeable difference ime.
@GregLCA thank you for the detailed reply. The last 5 sets of tires that I bought have been Michelin, and I never road-force balance them (I have heard the term but dont really understand it). Bought my first BFG tires here because of the price different with the Michelin, and I just like the look of KO2
Thank you again
Chris
Here's that video....
About 1/2 way through the video they explain the road force balance and why it helps.
-G
@crimsonaudio Thank you for the advice. This will be first set of new tires for my LC, so I think I am going to go get road balanced.
Chris
Cleaned out my rear ARB drawer so at least I could remember what is in there.
Cleaned out my rear ARB drawer so at least I could remember what is in there.
Like those trays. You make those?
New DS and PS front wheel bearings.
DS was on it's way out for over 20k - still no wobble in the wheel but an audible hum between 40-65mph.
DS was on it's way out for over 20k - still no wobble in the wheel but an audible hum between 40-65mph.
Fresh rubber on my DD.
Replaced by Diehard 31 series marine with this!
