Are Your Trailer Tires Balanced?
Are your trailers wheels balanced? I don' think any of the trailers I have had had balanced wheels. I just changed the wheels on my TH and was wondering should I balance the wheels or not? I h...
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3oaks wrote:Most car/truck OEM steel and aluminum wheels are hub centric so the cone method is acceptable for balancing.
I wasn't aware that with aluminum trailer wheels the hub and bolt circle were any more concentric with each other than steel trailer wheels.
Aftermarket wheels are more often universal fit so they are lug centric. The face of a steel wheel will usually have the center hole punched in the blank before welding into the barrel. The center hole is often close but not usually perfect. Vs on an aluminum wheel the hole will be trued up on a lathe when the casting is cleaned up.
