Alloy wheels - slow air leaks.

[james accordino]

Believe it or not, Slam's Club has stick-on weights. 
And torqued sticks.  And torque wrenches.  And they
actually use them.  At least at mine and on my car. 
YEMV.  Amazing.

Jim Accordino

--- cobram at juno.com wrote:
> After years of leaky wheels I resolved the
> problem....for a while anyway.
> 
> A year or two ago I spent an afternoon at a friends
> shop removing the
> tires from the rims, cleaning them up and sealing on
> the 5KS.  To clean
> the rims I left them on the tire machine sans skins
> (this way you can
> spin the wheel while it's locked onto the machine)
> sprayed gasket remover
> around the sealing lip, wiped it off, sanded the lip
> well and used a
> whizzer on the tough lip spots (curb/pothole scars.)
>  Cleaned the tire
> lips with thinner and a stiff brass wire brush. 
> When I remounted the
> tires I gloped the sealer on thickly (the
> professional sealer that has a
> camel on label) on both the wheel lip and the tire
> lip.  After mounting I
> balanced them....and used the hammer on
> weights...sealing goop was
> bubbling where I put in the hammer on weights...as
> soon as sealing goop
> dried leak stopped.
> 
> I have been looking for a source for stick on
> weights...but have not
> found one yet.  If anyone knows a source please let
> me know as I need
> some.
> Luckily the sealer worked well to seal the weights
> on the 5KS, but it did
> not work as well on the 200TQA wheels, the wheels
> still have a very slow
> leak at the wheel weights.
> 
> And yes, I did use the wheel profile gauge to select
> the hammer on
> weights.
> 
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> 
>
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