Folks,
I am past due on rotating my steer tires. "Rotating" in my case involves dismounting the tires, flipping them over, and remounting. When that happens the wheels will again need to be balanced. We just had this drone with the drivers a couple months ago, and I would have done the steers at the same time, but Les Schwab does not have a balancer that will fit my 335mm bolt circle.
We are in the Quad Cities today and heading generally down river on the Great River Road, so we will hit pretty much every city on the Mississippi. Can anyone recommend a shop with a spin balancer than can accommodate my wheels?
If it helps, these are the same wheels found on Van Hools.
-Sean
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Sean, ABC Bus Sales that is where a friend of mine gets his done
good luck
Thanks, Clifford. I don't see one on our route (we're already south of Minnesota), but we could try to swing over to the Texas branch if we don't find another option and we end up going, say, to San Antonio.
-Sean
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Updating this thread because we are still looking for a tire shop to do this work. We will be in the St. Louis, MO area this evening and are continuing south on the Great River Road.
Surely someone on this board must have a suggestion or two for places we can call. Anyone?
-Sean
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My experience in Eastern Mo is 30 years out of date. However Gasper's, 573-642-6641, in Kingdom City Mo about 100 miles west of Saint Louis spin balances large tires . McNights in Jefferson City about 150 miles southwest also spins large tires.
My friend couldn't remember the name of the shop in Cape Girardeau that spins tractor tires. Sorry for the lame info but it was all I could drum up on a Saturday.
Mike
Quote from: loosenut on July 10, 2010, 01:26:57 PM
My friend couldn't remember the name of the shop in Cape Girardeau that spins tractor tires. Sorry for the lame info but it was all I could drum up on a Saturday.
Thanks. We're just a few miles from Cape Girardeau, in Festus, so I will call around down there to see if anyone has the equipment.
-Sean
Sean,
There is a shop in Scott City, MO that has done balancing and alignments for us in the past. I don't recall the name of it but it is down the road from the truck stop and not the big tire dealer that advertises they do alignments on buses but when we went their they said "oh not that kind of bus!"
While in Festus, you might call Randy @ Husky bus lines and ask where he gets his balanced. They have MCI and Van Hools!
And if not able to get it done there I have been using "Best One Tire" in Jackson, TN and they do an awesome job! Our '05's have NEVER EVER rode better, even when they were new according to one of the drivers who was with "Just For The Fun Of It!" when they bought them new!
http://www.tiredealersites.com/bestone/default.asp?PageData=commHome&ID=321&P=0&T=3 (http://www.tiredealersites.com/bestone/default.asp?PageData=commHome&ID=321&P=0&T=3)
;D BK ;D