Year One 17"/Nitto Installation Questions

[GreenOnions]

Hi Guys & Gals,

I'm about to put Year One 17" Rallye wheels and Nitto (225/50-17 & 255/50-17) on my 70 Challenger and I have a few questions for those using this or similar combinations....

1) What air pressure do you run ?
2) Did you use the Year One valve stems or something else?
3) Balance weights, did they balance up ok with sticky weights on the inside of the rim only?
4) What torque did you use on the wheel nuts?

Regards,

GreenOnions

[anlauto]

I've used these exact wheels on a few cars now, but I can't answer your questions all that well.


1) What air pressure do you run ? FULL, whatever the tire shop inflated them to, never checked them
2) Did you use the Year One valve stems or something else? Used chrome ones supplied by the tire shop place that installed them
3) Balance weights, did they balance up ok with sticky weights on the inside of the rim only? YES, no issues there at all, they balanced out nice
4) What torque did you use on the wheel nuts? Tight

I did add longer studs on the rear so the nuts had more threads to grab, also ran longer studs on the Wilwood hubs up front. NOT SURE if longer studs are necessary or not, it was recommended by my mechanic

[dodj]

I have the 17" NT-05's. Run 40psi. All balanced fine with the sticky weights.
94 ft/pds on the lugs.

[7212Mopar]

They should be able to balance with sticky weight inside only.

[Bossgold]

Ask your Tire shop when was the last time they had their wheel balancer calibrated?  I went thru this lately and its called chasing weights (in the wheel business). Its when you run the first balance cycle and it gives the inside and outside weight amt/location. Then they cycle another spin and the machine says to add alomst the same amount in a different location on the wheel. This is when you can see if the machine is calibrated.....cause it should zero out or not need much ( almost not enough to bother) after the first spin cycle. These younger tire guys don't know how to balance a tire correctly and they just do what the machine recommends. Ask the tire guy if he knows what chasing weights means. Some shops have not calibrated their machines since the beginning of COVID. They get away with this cause most people sit in the lobby of the store and they don't watch the balancing process....like I did. I knew what I saw right away was wrong....and the shop tried to explain away what was happening. I took the wheels to a different shop and got it done correctly

[70vert]

I have these exact tires but on 17" Cragars:
1) I use 36-38 front and 30 on rear
2) Chrome valve stems, but then my wheels are chrome
3) sticky weights on inside of rim worked fine
4) not positive, tire shop did it. but wheel mfg should specify

[GreenOnions]

Thanks very much for the info, will post pics when I have them installed.