Mike Melton balances a Cooper Cobra GT white-letter tire, the classic performance tire from the 1960s and 70s. He removes old weights, corrects an imbalance of an ounce and a half, and addresses a road-force vibration the machine detected at 1200 pounds of force.
An ounce and a half.
1200 pounds of force.
You don't see many white leather tires anymore, but when you do, it's usually in the Cooper Cobra gt. Like this one. Now, if anybody knows about Cooper Cobra GTs, these are definitely the OG tire. Now, a lot of these guys put these on these old, old cars, you know, 60, 70 year model cars. And one thing about Cooper, they haven't changed this tire in years. Why? Because it's one of the damn best tires that they make. Not only that, these things last forever. And you know, we've got to balance them out. So what else we gonna do? We're gonna take that damn sticker off. Now, the reason they call them Cobras because these some guns stick to the road. Not only that, they got a big cobra on the side. All right, now we got the sticker off, we got all the weights off. Let's go ahead, balance this thing out. Now, normally we would put weights on both sides right here and right here. But the customer don't want weights on the outside. We're just gonna put them here. All right, we got her spinning. All right, we got to roll it down. This thing's putting 1200 pounds of force, if you don't know what that means, assimilating and being driven on the road. So we reduce any kind of. All right, so now comes up, it's got a little bit of raha road force. We're going to fix that right there for him. And it's only calling for an ounce and a half. So after we reduce that, that should reduce that down too.
