Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Three Wheeler & Super 3 Tire mounting and balancine in the US of A

Who do you go to when you have the tires, tubes, rim flaps all ready to go? Who can do this thing? Antique car people are few and far between but motorcycle people... Everywhere!

Or have I just answered myself?

Not many electronic wheel balancers have the mandrels to mount wire wheels correctly, have a look on the MWS website for the correct way to do this. I spent a lot of time going to places that said they could do the job but didn't have the right equipment when it came to it. In the end I bought a bubble balancer and it works very well, particularly as our wheels are narrow so the inner and outer balance isn't such a problem as it can be with wider wheels. Search "bubble wheel balancer" on ebay, they should be about $50. Don't forget to order some stick on weights.

I'm going to try Dynabeads myself. My Harley Davidson dealer has been trying to sell me it for years. I do like the clean no weight look.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwBXvlIG7gI

Why not fit them yourself!

Use a suitable sized truck tyre as a workbench, don stout boots and walk the tyre on. A plentiful supply of tyre soap or talcum powder and it's not as hard as you'd think. If you do have to use a lever, just make sure you don't pinch the tube.

I don't know if I'd get away with it at high speeds, but I have no balance weights on the Avons on my car. Feels good to at least 65, car's not been faster.

In the UK, any tyre place will give you a used truck tyre as that way they don't have to pay for disposal.

Over my many years of motorcycle tire changing, starting back in '66, I learned early on that once I had the tire, sorry tyre, half on I added the new tube. Once the tube is in and I have the stem partially through the rim I put the nut on just a nut's worth of threads. THEN I partially inflate the tube, just a little. This keeps the tube from being pinched while working the rest of the tyre onto the rim. Once I started to put a little air in the tubes, by pinching days were long gone.

As far as Dynabeads go, they work great. Lots of guys on the CVO Harley forum run them and love them. But they can be a bit messy when changing out tubeless tyres. Now with the tubes being used to contain the beads, I believe you would have an advantage over the tubeless application. I'd go for it and let the forum know how they worked out for you.

I had my tires mounted and balanced by my local Harley shop. They were so keen to work on the M3W they bought the adapter for their electronic balancer.

I bought my Blockleys through http://www.lucasclassictires.com .

I finally brought the new Excelsiors to my bike shop where he was glad to do the job. He had the unit for popping off the tires and then putting the new on without him losing fingers. His balancer was very slick and we cleaned off the old weights first then he added black weights for finish. Both tires were done for a grand total of $50 for 40 minutes of work.

Works for me.

This finishes off that productive weekend. Now I can play.