Local Wheel & Tire Packages with Hunter Road Force Balancing

[Nick797]

Looking to get your vehicle looking and riding right? We have access to thousands of wheel & tire options, don't blindly order from the internet and hope that they will arrive balanced correctly or hope they are the correct fitment. Stop into our store today and let us help you find the right wheel & tire for your vehicle.

Upgrade your Truck with a locally mounted and balanced wheel and tire package from 797 Performance. We use state-of-the-art Hunter equipment and Road Force balancing to help identify tire and wheel variations that can contribute to vibration, for a smoother ride.

We welcome all makes and models, including Ram 1500 TRX, Ram 1500 RHO, and Jeep vehicles. Whether you're refreshing your daily driver or planning your next truck or Jeep build, contact us to discuss wheel and tire options for your vehicle

 

[Two]

Road force balancing is the only way to go. I do my trailers, too.

Do I even want to know what that nice balancer cost you? My old GSP 9700's roller stopped working, so now that machine is no better than a typical spin balancer.

 

[Nick797]

Road force balancing is the only way to go. I do my trailers, too.

Do I even want to know what that nice balancer cost you? My old GSP 9700's roller stopped working, so now that machine is no better than a typical spin balancer.

I plan on doing my trailer too! Just waiting on some TPMS to arrive for it!

Both were 52K with some add-ons.

 

[Two]

You do know about turning the Smart Weight function off, right?

With it on it's still better than a typical spin balance, but not necessarily by much. My machine literally shows "OK" on the screen when a tire passes the somewhat loose standards.

It's meant to save time and wheel weights, and for a fast paced tire store that helps them. Supposedly "OK" means that most people can't feel the vibrations. Well, I'm not most.

If you ever got tires and wheels from Tire Rack, there's generally a very large difference between what they deliver and what it takes to see 0.00 and 0.00 on the screen.

 

[Nick797]

You do know about turning the Smart Weight function off, right?

With it on it's still better than a typical spin balance, but not necessarily by much. My machine literally shows "OK" on the screen when a tire passes the somewhat loose standards.

It's meant to save time and wheel weights, and for a fast paced tire store that helps them. Supposedly "OK" means that most people can't feel the vibrations. Well, I'm not most.

If you ever got tires and wheels from Tire Rack, there's generally a very large difference between what they deliver and what it takes to see 0.00 and 0.00 on the screen.

Yep! We went through a decent training course, which I had to kinda mention several times (The guy was only focused on time saving) That we aren't flat rate techs looking to save time Haha. I see that left over weight that they will say OK for.

We won't opt in for the tire rack thing because that opens us to kinda being a "service" center. Where as we only want to mount & balance and install what we actually sell.

The tire machine was my biggest hurdle, I really rebel against stuff that requires less physical input. But I guess as I'm getting older the machine that requires no effort is really nice.

My previous balancer would have me putting 10 OZ on a damn Ridge Grappler

 

[Two]

Time savings? Heck, there's been times I've spent over an hour getting a set balanced to perfection. Match balancing is a great feature, but a time consuming one. And worst case is when a tire is marginal and the wheel is perfect, not much to work with then. Reseat the beads and triple check the mounting on the spindle has got me by so far.

I recently added a modern cheapy tire machine. as the old Hunter wasn't getting along with 20" inch wheels and lower profile sidewalls. Still not friends with that new one and its many arms.

 

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Looking to get your vehicle looking and riding right? We have access to thousands of wheel & tire options, don't blindly order from the internet and hope that they will arrive balanced correctly or hope they are the correct fitment. Stop into our store today and let us help you find the right wheel & tire for your vehicle.

Upgrade your Truck with a locally mounted and balanced wheel and tire package from 797 Performance. We use state-of-the-art Hunter equipment and Road Force balancing to help identify tire and wheel variations that can contribute to vibration, for a smoother ride.

We welcome all makes and models, including Ram 1500 TRX, Ram 1500 RHO, and Jeep vehicles. Whether you're refreshing your daily driver or planning your next truck or Jeep build, contact us to discuss wheel and tire options for your vehicle

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Have the same setup at the shop plus a few other hunters. Good quality equipment!

 

[BusaDave]

Time savings? Heck, there's been times I've spent over an hour getting a set balanced to perfection. Match balancing is a great feature, but a time consuming one. And worst case is when a tire is marginal and the wheel is perfect, not much to work with then. Reseat the beads and triple check the mounting on the spindle has got me by so far.

I recently added a modern cheapy tire machine. as the old Hunter wasn't getting along with 20" inch wheels and lower profile sidewalls. Still not friends with that new one and its many arms.

Been having my tires balanced this way since the early 90's with the first machine I could find in the DFW area ironically at a Nissan Dealer in Weatherford. Now they are very common and the only way I will balance my tires to the wheels.

Best part is not really the "balance only" measurement, but the amount of road force involved. Have had the machine call for the tire to be rotated say 100 degrees and the amount of weight drop to less than half in many cases. Now there are just some instances where the balance is good, and RF is so far off a new tire has to be mounted.

FWIW it is Much harder to RF the aggressive tread larger tires due to the wheel measuring the RF having trouble with the spinning larger lugs.

 

[Two]

Best part is not really the "balance only" measurement, but the amount of road force involved.

Yep. I put the lowest RF number on the LF, then the highest on the RR. All based on what I consider the most likely to be forced out of balance.

Another thing worth noting; for me it's very common that the wheel with the most weights on it is the one with the lowest road force numbers.