Doug Woolverton of Hunter Engineering uses an electrically driven rubber roller to accelerate this Peterbilt front axle wheel to highway speed, at which imbalance can easily be measured. Then the ...
Heavy walled truck tires are just hard to keep balanced. The weights fly off after a while. Some are glued on some pressed on the bead, but it’s a continuing problem. Centramatic automatic balancers ...
There are always trade-offs when it comes to maintenance practices, and tires are no different. In a perfect world, every fleet would take the time and spend the money to make sure its trucks’ tires ...