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I found these on ebay, not sure if anyone has seen them yet. They look nice the black throws it off but if you paint the inner wheel argent gray may look very close. They have 15x7, 15x8, and 15x10.
nice looking wheel .The ad states "must be lug centric balanced" Is this the case with factory olds wheels ? Back forty years ago in auto mechanics class our tire balancer just had the cone style hold down.I wonder how many tire shops know the difference
nice looking wheel .The ad states "must be lug centric balanced" Is this the case with factory olds wheels ? Back forty years ago in auto mechanics class our tire balancer just had the cone style hold down.I wonder how many tire shops know the difference
Yes, this is the case for all SSII/III wheels with snap-in centers. There is no controlled pilot hole in the center that can be used to center the wheel on a normal balancer cone.
Yes, this is the case for all SSII/III wheels with snap-in centers. There is no controlled pilot hole in the center that can be used to center the wheel on a normal balancer cone.
VERY INTERESTING!!! This may explain why it was so hard to get the new BFG tires balanced on my OEM SSIII wheels. This was about 7-8 years ago. The shop would balance them and I still noticed a shake- they said the wheels must be bent- which I knew they weren't. They ended up balancing ok, but I'll just bet they were balanced using the balancer cone. But you know... now that I am thinking about it, I worked at a Montgomery Wards auto center at the Lansing Mall back in the early 80's and we must have balanced 100's if not 1000's of Olds SS wheels and I know we always used the cones. So I dunno....
The fact that a shop used a cone to balance the snap in wheels doesn't make it right. Just look at the backside of the wheel. There is no controlled, concentric surface that provides a locating surface for the cone. Bolt-in wheels have a pilot bore that is formed. Snap in wheels do not.
Joe is right, and the real issue is not that going hub centric on an SSII won't work, it's that it will work, just poorly. What I mean is you can get closer to balanced than an unbalanced wheel doing that....or you could get worse.
Hell I had a Toyota dealer 'unbalance' Toyota rims by making them worse than they were without weights due to them being dumb.
The fact that a shop used a cone to balance the snap in wheels doesn't make it right. Just look at the backside of the wheel. There is no controlled, concentric surface that provides a locating surface for the cone. Bolt-in wheels have a pilot bore that is formed. Snap in wheels do not.
Yep that makes sense! Funny how sometimes things are just done- no thought to it just always been done that way so that how it is....I learned something today!
January 30th, 2020, 12:36 PM
