The Ford Barn - View Single Post

38 coupe · 09-25-2015, 05:30 PM

I know of three options for balancing wide 5 wheels.

1. Buy the adapter plate that will mount to modern balancing machines. I remember this being advertised in the V8 Times for a while. Update, also think you could use one of the small bolt patter to wide five adapters that are sold to hot rodders. Speedway Motors lists these on their website. You need to balance the adapter before attaching a wheel with five lug nuts.

2. Find a shop that can do on the car balancing.

3. Get a good set of tires. Drive the car while figuring out which of the previous two options you are going to do. Discover that the car has no wheel vibration and continue driving it without any wheel weights (going on ten years now, I'll be sad when I have to replace those tires).

09-25-2015, 05:30 PM	#2
38 coupe Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: South Texas Posts: 2,137	Re: balancing wide 5's I know of three options for balancing wide 5 wheels. 1. Buy the adapter plate that will mount to modern balancing machines. I remember this being advertised in the V8 Times for a while. Update, also think you could use one of the small bolt patter to wide five adapters that are sold to hot rodders. Speedway Motors lists these on their website. You need to balance the adapter before attaching a wheel with five lug nuts. 2. Find a shop that can do on the car balancing. 3. Get a good set of tires. Drive the car while figuring out which of the previous two options you are going to do. Discover that the car has no wheel vibration and continue driving it without any wheel weights (going on ten years now, I'll be sad when I have to replace those tires). Last edited by 38 coupe; 09-25-2015 at 05:44 PM.