I'll get that 17mm socket tomorrow and before work Tuesday I'll go over all the motor mount bolts and check them all out with my new torque wrench.
I need to build the DIY $20 bike stand. Or spend $80 with a 20% off coupon I have for Harbor Freight and get their bike lift that has a good amount of positive reviews.
verslagen1 wrote on 10/02/11 at 17:32:28:I hope he didn't charge you for all those wts. It was his screw up.
That dot should be lined up with the valve stem. Cause it's almost 90° off, it makes sense where all the wts. are. And it's a pain in the ass to move it once it's on, so as long as it's balanced, fine. But if he didn't dynamically balance it, I'd go back and ask for it. Like I said, his screw up and you're feeling a problem.
He showed me the wheel while it was on his balancer and showed that it had zero'd out after adding all that weight.
No, he didn't charge me because he had quoted me a price before had and didn't say anything about cost of weights. He said afterwards that he'd have to change the wording of his quote for future customers because he put on about $12 worth of weights.
He did take 2.5 hours to do the darn job, so yeah, not the most competent mechanic ever.
Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 10/02/11 at 17:32:31: Looking at the pic -- is his valve stem sitting crooked?
I see the stem, where is the mark on his tire that indicates the matching lightest spot on the tire?
I question the competence of his mounting/balancing person ....
PS save all those unnecessary balance weights -- I want them !!!
So should I go back? A real mechanic should stand behind his work.
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