how much tire shake could you experience with a un balanced or goofed up buick or old ford drum....? brandon
I had a hell of a time getting the at speed bounce on my old '32. I dumped a ton of money at it chasing down the problem. After replacing the '56 f100 Ford front drums with repops - it drove like a dream. It went from a death trap at 60 to a 90mph runner.
You can get a good bit of shake. I used to go to old tire shops that still had the on-car tire balancer machine. Those are getting hard to find though. An alternative is a product called Dynabeads. I got some but haven't put them in yet. Check'em out here. http://www.innovativebalancing.com/
heres a shot of the car with the last set of fronts on it.....looked alot cooler with the small windows and d/t ribs....but i wanted to rule out bad tires by using a pair that i know wouldn't shake..... pretty much came to conclusion that it has to be in the drums...pretty much ****s....as it has a neat look with the buicks.....but is hardly drivable as is....which makes me wonder ...could a lot of tire issues mentioned here be drum related...? brandon
going to look into it....they still have the factory weights on them ...bad thing on the drums they were already turned when i got them off of here...and are pretty much done after this....will have to see what i can find out..... brandon
I am going through this myself i had willwood disc set up and with 10k trouble free miles.I got a full set of 60 buick front brakes and installed a VIOLENT shimmy at 60 plus.My next try will be a motorcycle ballancer to ballance the wheel and drum as a ***embly.A local shop lets me use there snap-on ballancer,you have to bring the wheel bearings so the centering cones can keep the wheel true. The shaft is only 1/2 in so it will p*** through the front wheel bearing.I know when i ballance early drum m/c wheels i have to do it with the drum.If you like pm me and Ill let you know how i make out.
I'm very fortunate in that my neighbor has a Snap-On balancer with the adaptors to do brake drums. When he does the wheel/drum balancing, the correct weights are put on the wheel and the lugs are ID'd and matched to the wheel hole so that they're always R&R'd so that the balance is not lost. He uses very short bolts that are weighed first and then installed in such a manner that there is no interference when he balances a drum only.
Just curious... I have an old set of tourqe thrust 15x7 mags on Buick finned drums... Do you think aluminum drums could cause my death shake at 55 ... Only 55 mph any faster and it drives like at dream. Thanks... I doubt in tire rolling beads will help.. I've been through it all with those worthless Coker (joker) tires on a different car
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