Balance of mind, body and tires.

The Fuso Szulc was vibrating.
And that is not what it is supposed to do.

When speeds were reached of around 90 kilometres per hour the front part of the truck started to move nervously from left to right.
One does not need to call the fantastic radio program “Car Talk” of National Public Radio to ask what this vibrating is about.
It is caused by tires out of balance!

Reaching the small town of Ciudad Constitucion the task was to find a place where they could balance the front tires.
The Fuso Szulc being a truck, no ordinary tire shop is able to do this.
A place must have special equipment.

The tire needs to be taken off the truck and put on a special computerized machine.

But we are here in Mexico.
Where there is not always money to have expensive equipment.
So they improvise to have eventually the same result.

A tire shop was found after asking some friendly locals.
And immediately an expert mechanic was available to work on the challenge.

Surprise 1: the tires could stay on the truck.
Which makes the job a lot more simple.

Surprise 2: no complicated equipment was needed.

The friendly mechanic had a portable electric engine to which a kind of roller was attached.
He lifted one side of the Fuso Szulc front up with a jack so that the wheel was free.
With the roller he made the Fuso Szulc wheel spin and then he opened the door.
The truck door wide open it was easy to see that the door was vibrating.
Going up and down rapidly with little vertical movements.

Next the mechanic was holding a piece of chalk on top of the tire that was spinning madly, making a white line.
After he stopped the spinning, he could see that the white line was elliptic.
Where the white line came closer to the outside of the tire, he put a piece of lead to the rim.
Testing again until no vibration could be noticed anymore in the door.

After both sides had been fixed in this simple, smart and effective way, it was time for a test-drive.

And for sure, even at 90 kilometres per hour, there was no more vibration.

Time to pay the tire shop.
Costs: 100 Pesos per tire.
200 Pesos and the mechanic got a 20 Pesos tip.
220 Pesos = 11 € = $ 16

The tires in balance, straight in Ciudad Constitucion to the campestre “La Pila” of friends Anna Karen and Roberto.
Where is the Olympic sized swimming pool many fervent and loyal blog readers will remember from last year.
How every day swimming was taking place in this magical pool reaching incredible heights of exaltation in between the stars.

But this time of year the water has a very low temperature.
The swim was short and chilling.
Too short to come even close to the stars.



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