Wheel Alignment and Balancing

The idea when doing this is to install a tire with a shorter sidewall. It's the overall diameter of the tire you are looking to match. If your stock set up has a tire with an overall diameter of say 26" then you'll want to find a tire with the same overall diameter in the 20" version. However, you aren't going to have much sidewall left on the tire with the 5" change you're making. Watch out for potholes or those rims are toast. Tire Rack online allows you to shop tires by size and you can click on the specs. The diameter will be listed there. Keep plugging in tire sizes until you find the ones that match.

No. Bearings and axles are non-adjustable. But the question is not clear as to what is meant by "off". There is really nothing other than mileage that wears bearings and axles. Front-wheel drive cars don't have servicable bearings. However, when a rear brake job is done on a car with drum brakes, chances are there may be bearings that should be greased at that time. Axles are sealed, and are not serviceable on anything other than a 4x4, and even then, there isn't much to service. Bearings on a Ford Explorer 4x4 (for example) needs the front bearings re-packed with a front brake job. If your axle or bearings seem messed up after the alignment and rotation, it didn't have anything to do the tires being out of balance. Because lifting a vehicle on a rack removes all weight off the suspension, it can sometimes cause the vehicle to settle wrong when put back down if there is a weakness in a component. Example, wheel bearings that got into their own worn groove because they were a little loose. The wheel, when off the ground, tilted one way, and when lowered back down, forced the bearing if loose into a weird spot.

The 1986 Mazda B2000 pickup truck has 14"x5.5" rims. The OE tire size is 205/75R14, and 195R14 tires also fit ideally.

What is camber? Camber is the vertical angle of your tires. When you look at the front or rear of you car or truck are the top tires leaning towards or away from the chassis.

If the top of a tire is leaning towards the chassis this is negative camber and if it is leaning away it is positive camber.

What camber does to your handling. To start off let us look at what incorrect camber angles will do to your handling. It affects overall traction, cornering ability and handling.

With camber angles not adjusted to both track conditions and your driving style can make driving or racing your car or truck very frustrating.

Now let us look at why camber angles are so important. When you enter a corner your car or truck will want to lean, because of the force of gravity.

The faster or harder you enter a corner the more lean you will have. This flex of the suspension will cause the inside tires to want to lift off the surface and the outer tires to lean away from the chassis.

This changes the contact patch of the tires, the area of the tire in contact with the surface. If camber angle is incorrectly set the contact patch lessens causing the loose of traction.

On the other hand, with camber angles set correctly the contact patch remains flat, lessening chassis roll then increasing traction.

Now let us look at how to adjust camber. Almost all RC vehicles use turnbuckles to adjust camber. These turnbuckles, in most cases, are threaded in opposite directions with hex nuts mounted in the center of the turnbuckle.

When installing camber turnbuckles make certain that they are all installed the same way. This will make adjusting camber much easier and faster if all turnbuckles turn in the same direction to shorten or lengthen.

When you take your hands off the steering wheel with the car moving and it goes to the left or right quickly.

Anything plastic on a vehicle wheel is there purely for decoration so it will not affect the function of the wheel but it wont look as pretty.

If you mean the one on the far left, and you mean the one that doesn't move, then that is simply a foot rest! http://minicoopertuning.blogspot.com/

No... The tire is to big and would not "bead" on the rim correctly.

* A shudder or vibration when accelerating. * Excessive play in either the inboard or outboard joints can sometimes cause this, but the most likely cause is a worn inboard plunge joint. These kinds of vibrations can also be caused by a bad intermediate shaft bearing on transaxles with equal length halfshafts. On FWD vehicles with transverse-mounted engines, this kind of vibration can also be caused by loose or deteriorated engine/transaxle mounts. For this reason, the rubber bushings in the upper "torque strap" or "dog bone" on these engines should also be inspected to rule out this possibility.

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Normally tire out of balance or bent wheel.

No. New tires does not change alignment settings as alignment settings done with tie rods, camber and caster bolts and not affecetd after tyre changing. Yaa But it should taken under consideration that after changing tyres its better to check alignment because there can be little change in alignment readings due to difference in tyres depths of old and new tyres.

New tyres change balancing settings so wheel balincing is must check after changing tyres.

yes.

but the biggest preventatives are proper tire pressure and alignment angles (toe, camber)

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if you are still running stock size tires and you are in need of a camber adjustment you most likely need ball joints as there realy is no adjustment of camber or caster from the factory. most folks when doing any mods (lift or tire size change) or maintenance on these frontends will install camber adjustment sleaves/bushings in the top ball joints when doing so. they cost from $80 -$120 a set and require compleat disassembly of the stearing spindle/knuckle assembly and you will need to replace all four ball joints at this time anyway as you will distroy them taking it all apart. while your at it it would be foolish not to replace all three u-joints in the half shafts with greasable ones as the will only cost you about $17 each and to do them requiers the full disassembly you have already performed. if you choose to do this project the best place to get the part would be rockauto.com you will save about $100 in total on name brand parts. "moog ball joints and precision u-joints". also replace the knuckle to spindle seals, they are about $14 each and will be shot too. you will need a press to do this job or take the knuckles to your local shop to have them press the old balls out and the new ones in. after its all done you will need an alignment. i am doing this job now on my 97' f-250 and i can tell you all 4 ball joints, 3 u-joints and the 2 knuckle seals from rockauto.com shipped to me was $260 i chose not to install the camber adjustment sleaves as that was not a problem with my 1997 f-250. as i was doing all of this do to the fact i was changing my gear ratio from 4:10 to1 to a more mileage friendly 3:55 to 1. i hope all this typing helps someone. any further questions feel free to email me jeff njcableguy@comcast.net

Brake pads may be worn down to the brake "squealers".

No way of telling, different designs will have different weights.

Hi, It is relatively difficult to answer this question without more information. First, the best thing is to use the same speed rated, size and width tires on all four wheels. Also, the tires should have the same tread pattern (this will optimize handling, especially in bad weather). BMW recommends that all four tires be of the same speed rating, size, height and width. They also recommend using a full set of M+S winter tires to prevent problems with ABS braking in the winter. You might be able to get along with two sets of different tires, two in front, two in back, if the are the same speed rating, size, height and width. The problem is that your handling and braking will most likely suffer (due to the different tread patterns) and you would have to exercise great caution until you got the "feel" of the vehicle under these new conditions. If you are just driving around town at low speeds and not driving at high speeds on the highways, you could probabvly get away with this. Still, if you had a choice and the money, it is best to keep all four tires on your BMW the same make, tread pattern size and width. This is my opinion only, and other BMW drivers might completely object to even thinking about using different tires on the vehicle. Hope this helps.

Probably not. The rim may not clear the brakes.

They can with some triming and with the right offset, 22 will clear with no cutting. buy YES 24"s can be done!

if you have independent suspention front and rear chances are a 4 wheel alignment can be done typically front wheel drive vehicles but not all.

Severe Vibration and premature tire wear. The wheel bearings and suspension also take a beating. Replace the bent wheel. Thanks for the info. Found a great deal in Ebay.

The meaning of 22 rims can be described as the measurement of the tire rims, 22 inches. Rim sizes vary by vehicle and by price. The larger the rims, the higher the price.

Rotate and balance, then alignment.

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