RV tire balancing

[GCroyle]

http://www.anglerguide.com/montana/georgetownlake.html

Uh Big, that's a nice picture uh huh. But next time can't you find a lake w/o lights in the shoreline to mess it up?

 

[mwilson]

What I don't understand the devices used today to balance with stuff in the tires, or device with the floating weights on the edge of the rim... . We'd get tires with rubber balls in the tire from the tubless tire liner that was sprayed into the tire... some would work loose and make rubber balls from 1/4" to 1" in diameter... today's technology has long since gotten rid of the problem... I brought this up... because there was no way you could balance this tire... and driving the vehicle down the road would cause a terrible shake during acceleration or de-acceleration as the rubber balls ran around on the inside of the tire and bounced around... So with what I've leaned from practical experience over the years defies my understanding or belief in some of the items sold today...

I remember Ding Ding bells, free air outside of the building (until the vandals kept cutting the air line off to aid in siphoning gas), pumps without auto shutoffs, oil cans that were metal (had a puncture nozzle hanging out by the pumps) and the wretched manual credit card imprinters (that would snap a plastic credit card right in half at the first available chance).



I still have the Socony Mobil credit card eater from our old garage at home along with some unused Mobil forms. When I get ****** at computers I dig that thing out and realize just how far we have progressed.....





I remember when the rubber balls would be in the tire when you broke it down.



I am with you, I don't understand why little balls or beach sand in a tube would work.

But it does. I questioned the use of the Equal product when I started here 14 years ago but customers demand that it be added. It does keep the big tires from needing to be balanced again halfway through the useful life of the tire. We also have situations where the trucks are running through the mud and it lays on the back side of the rim. The Equal will compenstate for that as well.



Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Mike



Thanks for posting the above info after reading it I feel so much different I had my 59th birthday in July and after reading the above I NOW FEEL 159 THANKS ALOT and I do remember the green stamps.





Gary



Nice to bring out the things of our childhood to bring back days gone by. But you should have removed the bait from the hook it must have been pretty stiff after all those years :-laf

 

[Jim W]

As we are in some discussions of the old times here what about motor oil stored in glass bottles outside with pour spouts on them. Each bottle was a separate grade such as 10W, 20W, 30W along with gasoline at $0. 29 a gallon. Also you could fill the tank up with Ethyl which came out as filled-it up Ethyl. For all of younger readers this is Premium Leaded gas around 100 octane rating, or the SUNOCO stations with the multiply grades of gas that you dialed in on the pump.



Jim W.

 

[BIGNASTY]

As we are in some discussions of the old times here what about motor oil stored in glass bottles outside with pour spouts on them. Each bottle was a separate grade such as 10W, 20W, 30W along with gasoline at $0. 29 a gallon. Also you could fill the tank up with Ethyl which came out as filled-it up Ethyl. For all of younger readers this is Premium Leaded gas around 100 octane rating, or the SUNOCO stations with the multiply grades of gas that you dialed in on the pump.



Jim W.

Dont recall the glass bottle oil we had paper with the shove thru oil spout. ETHYL was 25 cents a gal Chevron Custom Supreme was 28 cents a gal and was 102 octane. In military stopped in a SUNOCO station with my 66 Malibu looked good. Some kid came running and said NICE CAR!!!! filler up? with the best I said. He grabbed a knob on the side of the pump and spun it around and said SUNOCO 240 IT IS !!!!!!!! I started to yell no no no I dont need jet fuel just peminum. He filled it and off I went stopped at a rest area 100 miles down the road and took a look at the exhaust pipe's CHALK WHITE well better make a carb adjustment thats some good gas. Life and cars were so much easier back then.

 

[GCroyle]

You could put one of those oil spout punchers up as a guess the tool but for SmartPhoneGen only, no clue.



Yes Sir (in the freezing rain, snow. blistering blacktop heat, wearing a company synthetic slimy nasty uniform, end of shift etc. ) Can I fill it with premium for you today? Naw kid, just $3 but check the oil, tires and get all the glass and I'm in a hurry.



And this guy would be the company retired mystery shopper to boot, aw crap.

 

[BIGNASTY]

You could put one of those oil spout punchers up as a guess the tool but for SmartPhoneGen only, no clue.

Yes Sir (in the freezing rain, snow. blistering blacktop heat, wearing a company synthetic slimy nasty uniform, end of shift etc. ) Can I fill it with premium for you today? Naw kid, just $3 but check the oil, tires and get all the glass and I'm in a hurry.

And this guy would be the company retired mystery shopper to boot, aw crap.

YA AND ALL THAT WORK FOR A $1. 65 an hour LIVIN HIGH ON THE HOG!!!! BOY LET ME TELL YA!!!!! On a date the full tank of gas,hamburger, fries ,soda and the drive in movie on less than $10. 00 might even get in a little back seat wrestling match going with the girlfriend

 

[GCroyle]

Big,



Boy its amazing how we manage to redirect a simple inquiry ain't it!



My first car in 1972 in high school was a 1968 Oldmobile Delmont 88 C O N V E R T I B L E 350CID power windows, 38,887 miles bright RED, black top and white BENCH front seat. My Dad took it for a test drive first, backed it out of the driveway and prounounced "Son, you found an automobile"



Not enough smiley faces on keyboard for that day any many many more.



Yes, I agree, balanced RV tires are a good thing!

 

[jelag]

As a kid working in that Chevron Station doing all of the mentioned above... 2 thoughts cross my mind... the gal in the short skirt (read very short) who caught me looking when I washed the windshield... and keeping a 1 gal can out by the pumps when I worked alone at night... when the pump was off you could open the nozzle and drain, maybe a pint of fuel each time you pumped gas... . that gallon can kept my Honda 150 full of fuel most of the time... of course when you start the pump the meter would jump 4-8 cents to try and fill the hose... and yea we has green stamps. .

As I sit here writing this, I just wonder how all that time blazed by so quickly... damn my kids are almost 40... I'm going out to play while all you guys have fun at work

 

[BIGNASTY]

as a kid working in that chevron station doing all of the mentioned above... 2 thoughts cross my mind... The gal in the short skirt (read very short) who caught me looking when i washed the windshield... And keeping a 1 gal can out by the pumps when i worked alone at night... When the pump was off you could open the nozzle and drain, maybe a pint of fuel each time you pumped gas... . That gallon can kept my honda 150 full of fuel most of the time... Of course when you start the pump the meter would jump 4-8 cents to try and fill the hose... And yea we has green stamps. .



As i sit here writing this, i just wonder how all that time blazed by so quickly... Damn my kids are almost 40... I'm going out to play while all you guys have fun at work

Not all of us are at work (so to speak) yes I have work to do just to keep the place up but HAVE TO GO OUT THE DOOR TYPE WORK :-laf Those days are gone for me . Here's the oil spout I remember using a bunch of times

 

[Blu-meanie]

Those glass bottles of oil were pumped out of a barrel, cheaper than the cans. I have one of those can pokers around here somewhere. During the gas wars, gas was around ¢15, and the lowest grade of gas was 100+. Those Sun stations advertised "7 gasolines and 7 prices". When I entered the workforce I believe minimum wage was ¢75, or close to it. The money was silver and the bills were silver certificates. There was change inside the cigarette packages for those machines (one of my jobs at home). No wonder I feel old.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Those glass bottles of oil were pumped out of a barrel, cheaper than the cans. I have one of those can pokers around here somewhere. During the gas wars, gas was around ¢15, and the lowest grade of gas was 100+. Those Sun stations advertised "7 gasolines and 7 prices". When I entered the workforce I believe minimum wage was ¢75, or close to it. The money was silver and the bills were silver certificates. There was change inside the cigarette packages for those machines (one of my jobs at home). No wonder I feel old.

Did dinosaurs still roam the earth BLU? :-laf Just kidding dont get your tyrannosaurus and club and drive North Please!!!!

 

[Blu-meanie]

No dinosaurs, but dirt was fairly new.

 

[mwilson]

No dinosaurs, but dirt was fairly new.

Nice... ...



Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

No dinosaurs, but dirt was fairly new.

:-laf:-laf:-laf:-laf:-laf



BLU you started my day off with a chuckle THANK YOU!!!!





BIG

 

[GCroyle]

As a kid working in that Chevron Station doing all of the mentioned above... 2 thoughts cross my mind... the gal in the short skirt (read very short) who caught me looking when I washed the windshield...

Jim,



The unwritten code at our station was to stomp the bell hose when we had special customers, in case we needed assistance, kinda sharing the day.



Back to the OP's inquiry, possibly will be checking trailer rotors balance this weekend, correcting and marking heavy side then checking for heavy side of wheel/tire and offsetting, thats the idea anyway. Got an old bubble balance lined up.