Finally bought me a Coats 4050a tire changer...

[Dargo]

...now I need to find a deal on a tire balancer.


I know there are some fancy 10k tire changers that do more than the old Coats 4050a machines, but there are millions of the old 4050's changing tires every day still. My next door neighbor owns a tire shop and he has 4 of them and each year he replaces the oldest one; so I got a 4 year old machine.

Put some brand new tires I got via the internet on my daughter's Explorer today but all I have for a balancer is an old bubble balancer. I don't want to spend a lot more on equipment, but I'm not really sure I want to turn my driving trainee out on the highway with a car that may not have properly balanced tires. I bought the machine because, with 15 vehicles, I'm ALWAYS fixing a flat tire on something or putting new tires on something else. Besides, manhandling low profile tires on and off with by hand flat sucks! I'm getting too old and broken for that!

Any thoughts on a balancer?

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

i used tolike the fmc dual mag tire machines powered both ways as for balancers you should be able to find a powered high speed balancer inexpensively as the new trend is a low speed balancer. the bubble balancers are slow done right they work quite well, lay the tire on top grab a cuple of weights put them at 10:00 and 2:00 to the light side move them in and out till bthe bubble is centered than devide the weight by 2 and mark the location tack your first set of weights on the back than re balance the tire and tack the weights on the front