[Superman]

Couple of old farts ran a beloved, respected and old-fashioned alignment/suspension/tire shop here in town. They take the month of September off to go hunting. There were no mounted elk or deer heads on the wall but there were plenty of impressive pictures.

I took a Datsun 620 pickup to them with handling problems. It tended to wander and there was a rear wheel balance problem. I think the guy fixed my problems in about 20 minutes. One of the things he did was to rebalance the rear wheels without taking then off the car. He just raised the rear axle, started the truck, put it in gear and released the clutch. He'd put his hand on the truck bed in different positions. Take the transmission out of gear then go put his hand on the bed until the suspected wheel stopped moving. With wheel weight pliers in the other hand he would install, remove or reposition a weight. Rinse, repeat until the bed didn't vibrate anymore. That thing drove like a Porsche when he was done. He charged me almost nothing.

I have had more wheel-balance problems at places with computerized spin machines than I have at places where the guy uses a static bubble balancer with a rag hanging from his front pocket. There are guys who know how to run a fancy computerized balancing machine, and then there are guys who know how to balance wheels. There is a difference.