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Old 07-30-2007, 09:47 AM   #1
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I am a big fan of getting the wheels road force balanced with a Hunter machine. I was having trouble with some vibration until I tried thier machines.

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me too. Had that vibration until Hunter balancing.
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yeah it wold be very dangerous to drive w one missing, but i guess if you only drive like that for a day or 2, but definitely not pushing the car like that and getting it up to 3 digits...
in my case the lug nut tool just broke in half, so went to the shop and got them taken out, and in the meantime i ordered some lug nuts that were off of gt2 (thats another performance mod right there hehehe, lol) and they came in within 2 days so it wasnt that bad.
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and in the meantime i ordered some lug nuts that were off of gt2 (thats another performance mod right there hehehe, lol)
Yeah, that should be good for at least 2 HP or so.
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Old 08-01-2007, 09:15 PM   #5
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Im gonna get my missing lug nut from performance products, since it came with my H&R 15mm spacers. so is road force ballancing the same as ballancing? and do most reputable tire shops use the hunter 9700? I got my tires mounted and ballanced at a local tire shop (firestone) and so I didnt ask what they used. I think my mechanic said my tire was out of round.
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I was told the hunter machine only runs the wheels up to the equivilent of 65 mph . Is this true? The poster said he gets vibrations at 85-95 mph. How does the hunter machine work?
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I was told the hunter machine only runs the wheels up to the equivilent of 65 mph . Is this true? The poster said he gets vibrations at 85-95 mph. How does the hunter machine work?
U can "gram" balance tires on most of the high end tire balancers..

instead of 1/4 oz increments in weight, the balacer can call for 1.34 oz and so forth.... works pretty good for high speed balancing..


the vibration sounds like a tire problem to me..
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me too. Had that vibration until Hunter balancing.
Pecivil, can you tell me where to get a Hunter balancing in San Diego?
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Pecivil, can you tell me where to get a Hunter balancing in San Diego?
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