Centramatic Wheel Balancers

[Dave.e19]

I was watching a few YouTube’s on centramatic wheel balancers and recently “keep your daydream” did one as well.

People who use them seem to love them as they improve tire wear and they never have to get their tires balanced.

I decided to order them and install them but they do not fit perfectly with our style of brake drums. They would require a think wheel spacer (maybe 3mm at the most).

My question is about the wheel spacers? Is there any issue using them on a dual axle trailer? I would not want to decrease the performance of the lugs or strength of that area in any way.

Attached is an arrow showing where the space is of the wheel balancer to the brake drum and some of the wheel spacers I’m asking about.

Thank you.

[CharlesinGA]

Trailer wheels are zero offset. The inner bearing takes the most load, and the spacers will move a bit of that load to the smaller outer bearing. If you are willing to take the chance that the bearing won't become overloaded, then go ahead, there is no other reason not to do the spacer.

Turning the tube of the Centramatic toward the drum will, I suspect, take way more than a 3 to 5 mm spacer. My wheels are made just right for the tube to face the wheel and nothing contacts the wheel except the center part of the Centramatic that is supposed to.

I posted pics in another thread on this.

Charles