Wednesday, September 28, 2011

How to Balance a Racing Go Kart Tire

The importance of balancing your go kart racing tirescan not be overstated.Most people wouldn't even consider putting a tire on their car or truck that has not been balanced. Yet some of those same people will mount up a new tire for their racing go kart and not balance it at all. The truth is that it's of much greater importance to balance your go kart racing tires than any other tires. Even when using today's fully machined go kart racing wheels, there's a needfor balancing.Here are a couple of the styles of go kart racing tire balancer on the market. If you have metric wheels instead of American pattern wheels, the third picture shows a metric adapter kit

With the purchase of a go kart racing tire balancer anyone can learn to balance tires for their racing go kart. Besides for the balancer you will need a permanent marker, wheel weights, scissors or cutters and some racers tape. Then just follow the instructions below:


Attach the wheel to the hub and slidehub on tospindle.Center wheel on spindle and put ends of spindle in to balancer sides.

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