Balancing RV tires
I've been reading a little about tires; brands, LR, and balancing. I know this is a question that has been batted back and forth, but do the RV and tire manufacturers not read these forums or liste...
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cpaulsen wrote:Lynnmor wrote:
I have written this before, but no one cares.
The hubs/drums on trailers are not balanced.
Of the 18 I have personally checked, not one was in balance, the worst was 5.5 oz. out.
You can balance the tires all you want but the assembly, most likely, will be out of balance.
The hubs and drum on vehicles are not balanced either....but you still balance the tires.
actually most/all drum brake housings on passenger vehicles are balanced. Look carefully at drum brake and you'll likely see either holes partially drilled through, or more commonly a rectangular steel tab on the drum. That's how they are balanced.
Haven't seen that on trailer drums, so I assume they are not balanced.
However, the effect of a given amount of unbalance also depends on the diameter of the object. so the same amount of imbalance on a drum will have much less effect than the same amount of imbalance on a tire since the tire diameter is much larger. Don't recall exactly but I suspect it is a squared relationship.
So if you balance a TT tire (which I do), you won't end up with a completely balanced assembly unless they balance on the hub. But IMHO you'll in virtually all cases end up with a better balance than nothing at all.
