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Old 05-29-2011, 03:41 PM   #44 (permalink)
watercat
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The green machine - '94 Geo Metro
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also I'm using Nissan altima rims. i believe the 93 to 04 model. the trick to the install for the 10 mm studs is a washer. I'll post a video picture of how i do it. its easy and simple and i have been using this method for the street and race 15 years at least. I buy the stainless washers at lowes that fit over the 10 mm studs i cant remember what size the hole is but they fit pretty decent. then I just take antisieze and my impact gun and run the lug nuts down to fully compress the washer a couple times and you will see the washer takes a perfect form of the nut and rim hole. then I just torque them like normal. Its not like flattening a penny because its not squishing the metal or stretching it just shaping it to the curve. you can use them over and over once you make them and they keep there form perfectly.

I also never balance tires with weights I always add centrifugal balancing beads when mounting the tires to make sure there perfect at every speed. Nothing is as smooth as beads. if you don't have a tire machine just let the air out of a tire and collapse the bead on the short side and just pour in a beer cup full of air soft plastic beads wally world has the best price on a 10,000 round package. then tear of the weights with pliers and fill the tire with air and your done for ever. The tire stores sell sand you can pour through the valve stem like semi trucks have but its expensive.

Its just like when your running your 4x4 and you put golf balls in the tires so if you rip off a tires tread on a bigger mudder you can still drive home with out shaking the truck to death from the tire out of balance. the golf balls go right up where there needed and it just like you didn't lose a few ounces (28 grams per once i think) of tread 15' from the center of the rim. Just remember that 7 grams of weight at 2000 rpm 4" from the center of a spinning shaft is 7 lbs. that's why you balance tires and engines. every gram is 1 lb of weight and it only get worse as the shaft spins faster.

Last edited by watercat; 05-29-2011 at 03:51 PM.. Reason: retarded mostly
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