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Todays lesson: Don't paint wheel hubs with caliper paint


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I DONT THINK YOU DID ANYTHING WRONG THERE FELLA ! ;)

i would never of guessed that just a layer of paint would throw wheel balance off.,

i mean surely people spray there hubs with clear laquer etc ?

i cant seriously see that paint ( micrograms ) would throw it out,.

what about say if someone uses metal valve caps on there tyres when the wheels are designed for plastic ones,. or even say,. you squeel to a halt locking up your tyres - surely the amount of rubber you would loose on the wheel lock up/skid marks - be MORE than the weight of a couple of layers of paint on the hubs ?

i doubt it was the paint ;)

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well I for one am saying thanks for the tip... just done my rear calipers and was actually going to do the hubs too... after reading your thread this morning decided against it and just gave them a bit of a tidy with the wire brush on my drill (careful not to go near the discs..!)

 

tar fella... phew... pics of my newly painted calipers when I get home... bet you can't wait.... they look hot..;)

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I don't think it was the paint Edd, unless you applied it with a trowel or something.

Shame you didn't go for a drive after removing the paint as i bet you would have still got that wobble.

 

yea, I thought that too mate but it would ment removing the wheels again just to balance them

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i would never of guessed that just a layer of paint would throw wheel balance off.,

 

i mean surely people spray there hubs with clear laquer etc ?

i cant seriously see that paint ( micrograms ) would throw it out,.

what about say if someone uses metal valve caps on there tyres when the wheels are designed for plastic ones,. or even say,. you squeel to a halt locking up your tyres - surely the amount of rubber you would loose on the wheel lock up/skid marks - be MORE than the weight of a couple of layers of paint on the hubs ?

You misunderstand mate. It's nothing to do with the weight of the paint causeing a problem, it's because the paint has not been applied in a uniform thickness and this causes the wheel to no be perfectly flat against the face of the hub like it must be. Do you see what I'm getting at?
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