If you want to learn how to balance a motorcycle wheel, this article will show you how.
To balance a motorcycle wheel, you will need:
– two sawhorses/folding stools
– lubricant
– a tire iron
– a marking pen
– tape
– two-sided foam rubber glue
– weights
1. Search the wheel of your motorcycle for a flat spot.
2. After you have found it, put your two sawhorses or folding stools back to back along the flat spot, the length of your motorcycle’s axle.
3. Apply lubricant to the weights of the wheels of your motorcycle.
4. After the weights are thoroughly lubricated, you be able to take them off.
5. Clean the grease on the surface of your motorcycle’s wheel.
6. Place the axle in the wheel, using the sawhorses or folding stools you set up to support it.
7. Level the wheel of your motorcycle and use your marking pen to mark the bottom of it.
8. Turn the wheel until the heavy side of the axle in on the bottom of the wheel.
9. Turn the wheel 180 degrees.
10. Take a small weight and tape it to the mark you made on the bottom of the wheel. Continue to turn the wheel, checking that it is balanced in every possible position of the wheel.
11. After you are sure your motorcycle’s wheel is balanced, use your two-sided foam rubber glue to attach the weights the wheel.
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