Who in Austin can shave out-of-round tires?

You can true the tires yourself.

But, be careful this is a dangerous procedure"

Obtain a plastic milk crate.

Strap a sander / grinder to it with the disc facing up and down.

Use #80 grit paper.

Jack up the car so the wheel will rotate freely.

Sit on the milk crate,

Inch it toward the tire.

It will begin to grind only the high spots as the tire rotates.

It doesn't take too long and you will have a pile of rubber under each tire when your done.

Drive the car and you will find the out-of -round condition gone.

This process is really "Butch". but it works like a charm

 

The sitting on the milk crate sounds like the really bad idea part, the rest only sounds marginally bad. Is using something other than a bumper jack a waste of time since you are liable to lose an arm anyway?

 

It all sounds really stupid & very dangerous. Like back in the day when we were dirt track racin and we cut our own tread on old slicks by blowing them up to around 40lbs & using a chainsaw to cut tread in them or getting them to seat on the bead by filling the tire with propane and lighting it.... How we ever survived is a mystery.

 

This is what you need to find , and an operator that knows how to use it.

http://www.amermac.com/711.html

We recently purchased a used machine locally for $1000 "A Very Good Deal" , and a second one for parts .

They run around $6000 New with all the attachments.

HURST RACING TIRES

 

Yup leave it to a FNG to say that.

 

How the hell does the hair get on the tires to begin with???

 

We do it at True Line, along with on the car balancing.


Tony

 

Well krooser you see when a tire hits a certain psi it starts going through changes, growing hair where it never had any before.

 

Hmmm...so when my first girlfriend hit 13 psi THAT's what caused all that hair?

 

Yup its nature.

 

The True Line deal mentioned above sounds like the way to go.

As to the milk carton and disc sander there is actually a bit more sophistication.

The best way is to firmly attach a two foot section of 2x4 lumber to the plastic milk carton.

Then attach the sander / grinder in a vertical position with long radiator hose bands.

Position the grinder so (as you are sitting on the plastic milk carton) the spinning of the disc causes the wheel to rotate.

As you cautiously move the grinder disk toward the jacked up tire it will only "bite" the area where the tire is too far out of round.

After a minute or two the area will be ground down and the tire will be true and round to the wheel.

When you think about it that is is exactly what they do at a truing shop.

At any rate if you can find a shop that can profesionally true tires , I suggest you patronize them.

 

i think this, unfortunately, is a dying art. And the only reason why is, i feel, that it is not profitable for the tire shop to have this machine and peform this procedure when they can't just say, "oh well, there's nothing we/you/ or anyone can do about it, so it looks like you need a new tire(s)!" Much larger profit margin. Also, think how many trueing jobs they would have to do just to break even.

i have many tires that were good except they were a just little out-of-round.

Thanks for the idea of the home tire truing machine; i will experiment with it as time permits. Safety first, of course.