What is corner weighting

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by NRP/MN

In addition to balancing the cross weights, you also have to maintain correct ride heights, not as easy as it sounds.

Bingo!
I had one shop try it years ago and although in their minds they had it balanced, the ride height was all messed up. As stated above, not as easy as it sounds. You are wrestling with two variables. Height and balance.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Bernica

Bingo!
I had one shop try it years ago and although in their minds they had it balanced, the ride height was all messed up. As stated above, not as easy as it sounds. You are wrestling with two variables. Height and balance.

I would rather set the corner weights than set the valves. Provided you have a flat garage floor, and the nice digital weight scales, you just put sand bags in the seat, loosen the sway bars, and take your time with the coil over adjustments. There's no magic to it, you can let your mind wander, and you're never going to get it perfect anyway. You can go as slow as you want, it's impossible to accidentally break anything, screw anything up badly, or drop a tool down your engine. It's really a nice little weekend job.

[FatBoy]

It possibly needs re-stating that you're not trying to get all four wheels to show an equal weight. If you have a front or rear weight bias, no amount of corner balancing is going to change that.
Instead, the idea is to get the sum of the weights of the diagonal wheels to be equal i.e. LF + RR = RF + LR.
As Pat just said, it isn't rocket science, but it can be frustrating and you'll be surprised how little adjustment you need to make a big difference to the registered weight.
Get your ride height and tyre pressures set first though before you start messing around with the corner weights.
You really need to have all four wheels on the scales at the same time i.e. one under each wheel. You can't just weigh one corner at a time because you'll chase your tail forever.

Paul