The last time I drove the 68 I had a slite vibration at hi-way speeds. Also when I was driving through the parking lots I felt a (bump?) in the front end, not like a wobble more like a tire out of round. I jacked up the front end and spun the tires and I noticed one seem not to be perfectly round? I thought maybe from sitting to much. They are about 3 years old but they don't have 2000 miles on them. BF Goodrich.
So I check wheel bearings, all see fine. I take the wheels to one shop, they put both on balance machine and say their fine. Thet don't need balance and the little bit of out of round will return to normal after a few miles?
So then I take them bact to NTW where I bought them and tell them ( If they need balanced, please put the weights on the back side) They said that was a problem because the weights are suppose to go on the out side? Never been told that before?
I watched them put more weights on my 2 tires than I've had on all my other cars put together???? I bought them there and was still in the cpu so there was no charge.
Ya'll take a look and see what you think about how many weights?
First pic. drivers side
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k326/DONEDEALDONNY/20110525_3.jpg?t=1306356128 (javascript:void(0);)
Second pic. passanger side
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k326/DONEDEALDONNY/20110525_4.jpg?t=1306356908 (javascript:void(0);)
I mean to me it looks like they put weights on to counter balance the other weights they put on????
I haven't got to drive it yet but ya'll tell me what part makes sence and what don't?
Thanks
Donny

I know this may sound dumb but it almost looks like who ever balanced them didn't see or remove the inner weights. They just put the wheel/tire on the spin balancer and went to town. You got enough lead there to reload a small police force. :twisted:

They put the stick on weights on the inside and the hammer on ones on the edge?
{You got enough lead there to reload a small police force}
Thats what I'm thinkin too!!!! I've never seen that much on one wheel!!!!
Donny

Donny didn't they remove the original weights and start from scratch?
Look at the tire where the tread meats the sidewall,what your looking for is a small bulge something that doesn't look quite right.If you spot a bulge in the rubber you may have a belt separating from the carcass so keep an eye on it.

Yea they pulled all the old weights off? I've looked and spone the tires and I don't see anything. I'm having to charger the battery (been sitting a little to long)
I'm almost afraid to see how it's going to drive. Anyone ever seen that many weights on before?
Donny

Yea I had a set of tubine mag wheels back in the 70's that no matter what tires you put on them it took lots of weights (when I say lots of weights I mean there wasn't enough room for all the weights to balance them)so I had just the wheels balanced with the valve stem in the wheels at a machine shop,after that no more problems.
If yours were good and now there's something wrong it's probably a tire thing and believe me it will eventually show what the problem is when you can least afford it.
When you find out be sure to let us know.

I drove it tonight and everything felt fine ( famous last words)
We'll see???
Donny
P.S those are Weld 5 star rims:dontknow:

A little balancer lesson.
There are two types of tire balancing, Static and Dynamic.
Static is like turning you r bicycle upside down and the front wheel always rolls to the same spot on the bottom so you take a little solder and wrap around 1 spoke until it never stops the same place twice. Compare it to tying a pencil on the end of a flat strip of metal and spinning it (way out of balance) now tie and identical pencil to the other end and spin it Wa-la balanced Statically.
Now take the second pencil off and move it to the opposite side of the metal strip so that you have 1 pencil on each end but on opposite sides and spin it. It is still balanced statically but now it will want to wobble. It is out of balance dynamically.
Modern balancers are normally set to do a dynamic balance so that the wheel/tire don't want to jump up and down or to shimmy/wobble side to side which gives you the old shake in the steering wheel.
Donny, looking at the weights they used on yours tells me that he did not have the balancer setup correctly for where he wanted to place the weights so he had to just keep adding. The good news is that if the machine finally shows a 0 reading the tire/wheel is balanced, even if the machine is setup wrong or out of calibration.
The fact that the first place checked them and said they didn't need re-balancing and then this guy went nuts with the weights tells me he had no clue. Take them back to the first place and get all that lead off there!
My other suggestion would be to get over worrying about a weight showing on the outside of your nice rims and have the weights placed on the rim lips. That is the default setup (idiot doesn't have to know how to run the balancer) in all balancers and will give you the best balance with the least amount of weights.- loose the stick ons if possible.
Here is a link for those that want more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_balance

I believe to be edumacated now!!!!!:poke:
Thanks man
But I still want my weights on the inside.:dontknow:
Donny

putting weights on outside is better for wheel balance. but with aluminum wheels i won't put them on outside either. but run your hand over the tread and see if you have a broken belt in tire. In PA we got that a lot. i have replaced/repaired a lot of bent wheels and broken tires due to potholes.

counter balance some of the weights are countering the others. All the tire shops I've run I've allways told my guys ONE WEIGHT per side of the wheel ! I hope you've fixxed this I just realized how old this post is.....