Scary drive this morning WTH PLEASE READ AND HELP

Thats my "special" job once a week. Gotta make sure all the waters outta the compressors

 

Could not live without snow. Just this last weekend I was skiing up to my knees in powder with blue sky above and a few thousand feet of powder below. Heaven

 

Interesting indeed

 

believe it or not, ive seen this happen before. I'd of never guessed thats your problem tho

 

I've had ice in my compressor before , but wouldn't have thought about it in the tire .

 

Very logical and here's why....

There is a certain amount of water vapor in "air". It varies depending on weather.
When air is compressed, water vapor separates and forms liquid water within the compressor system.
We sometimes place water traps in our nail gun lines to keep water out of our guns. We also try to remember to open the petcocks on our tanks at the end of work to dump water.

So apparently someone aired up your tire with a compressor that either didn't have a water trap or its tank was not regularly drained.

Everything was fine while the water was in its liquid state, flying around in there. Then one night the water froze at the bottom of the tire.
Then this uninvited "wheel weight" threw your tire grossly out of balance at speed.

 

Thanks Bill Nye

 

I'm still amazed that so few shops put nitrogen in tires....prevents a lot of problems like this and pressure fluctuations with temperature. Only place I know of near me that has the equipment is Costco.

 

Side do you know how annoying that shit is?!! How many memories you brought back!!!! whatever happened to that dood!!??

 

I know that jeeps do this and when they get fixed they replace the entire front end suspension.

 

Wow thats crazy, Def will keep a eye out of that. Nice job on finding the problem.

 

X2

 

It's also likely the tire(s) were left in out in the weather before they were mounted and the guy installing them didn't get it out. Most tire guys I've delt with are doing well to clean the mud from inside the rim before ballancing, it's frustrating.

 

Good thought

 

The Death Wobble makes the steering wheel go ape shit!

This is a good example of a poorly executed lift resulting in terrible steering geometry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj9PNNChVm4&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL344429661F877364

The quality isn't good but damn! Ya'll should be able to see what I'm talking about. haha

 

That is what they think happened. I mentioned everyone's suggestions from the forum to the store owner and how I was going to let everyone know it was ice that caused the problem. He admitted that the guys probably did not drain all the water before putting the tire on. He was actually hoping I was not going to post this info back because he felt like a ass.

I have to say that the vibration was violent. Scary shit.

 

Caus air is free. They already need it for lifts, air guns and what ever runs on air. The nitro is a tad more expensive to make. Check out the price on this small compressor. http://www.tooltopia.com/rti-technologies-4558002400.aspx?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=RTI4558002400&utm_campaign=googlebase_18u&gclid=CP7_5Jawza0CFaQbQgodsWKfjA

 

That is some scary shit. Time for a new shop??

 

Glad you found it OP, I'll have to check my wobble out.

 

He's only an ass if he doesn't correct the problem at no cost to you, or doesn't take the oportunity to educate his guys on doing their job correctly. Things like this happen, but how it's dealt with after the fact is what makes all the difference. It actually sounds like a decent place to do business if the owner truly did feel like an ass about it happening. Too many wouldn't care.