This is easy and should be done on all of these fast turning wheels.

Mag wheel tape weights work great to accomplish this. With the wheel off the airplane and with the bearings in the races, insert the axle and run a small ¼” by 12” or so alum or steel tube through the bolt hole in the axle so you can rest the ends of the rod or tube you used on to 2 flat surfaces with the wheel suspended and find the heavy side. You may need to use the nose fork bushings to hold the bearings tight to the races on the through rod on each side. I used a little masking tape to do this. I was shocked how out of balance mine was. Use masking tape and temporarily tape the weight to the wheel and slowly rotate and adjust as necessary. You may need to trim the width of the weights with a band saw to make them fit on the wheel. I split the weight and put half on each side of the wheel. Do the mains while you are at it. You will be amazed at the difference when you are rolling fast.

Randy Snarr
N694RS

--- On Mon, 11/23/09, billhogarty <billhogarty@hughes.net> wrote:

> From: billhogarty <billhogarty@hughes.net>
> Subject: [LML] Wheel Balance
> To: lml@yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 10:08 AM
> With a new nose wheel tire and tube,
> I thought it prudent to have the wheel balanced.  The
> local tire shops werent able to help out because of the
> small size axle and floating bearings.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Regards, Bill Hogarty
>
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