Ranger R980XR NEXTGEN™ Swing-Arm Tire Changer with a 25" Capacity
Efficient Tire Changes, Streamlined Swing-Arm Design
For repair shops dealing with everyday vehicles like commuter cars, pick-ups, and SUVs, the R980XR is an optimal choice for quick and secure tire changes. Its space-saving design allows flush installation against the wall, making it ideal for environments where simplicity and speed are paramount. Equipped with non-marring duck heads suitable for various wheels, this model ensures easy operation and reliability, serving as an excellent primary or backup machine in both basic and sophisticated tire-changing scenarios.
Engineered for Performance and Durability
Each R980XR tire changer incorporates cutting-edge design and wheel service technology, delivering top-notch value and performance within its category. The robust motor and gearbox collaborate seamlessly, ensuring controlled speed for effortless tire removal and installation. Positioned with ergonomic controls to minimize unnecessary movement, this tire changer enhances daily productivity, offering substantial storage trays for convenient organization of wheel weights, tools, and accessories.
High-Torque Electric Turntable
Designed for faster tire changes, the R980XR models feature a high-torque electric turntable, offering increased speed and reversible direction for efficient operation. Controlled speeds contribute to the relaxation of low-profile and run-flat beads, reducing the risk of tire damage—a crucial factor in ensuring longevity.
Efficient Bead-Breaking Design
The tire changer employs bilateral pneumatic accelerators to achieve impressive bead-breaker speeds, even in reverse. The stainless-steel bead-breaker cylinder remains unaffected by moisture in the air, eliminating the risk of corrosion. With a multi-axis adjustable blade and a large dual-flange axle, this design accommodates various tire and wheel combinations, offering flexibility and reliability.
Enhanced Bead-Breaker Blade
The robust box frame of the enhanced bead-breaker blade fortifies the structural integrity of the tire changer, contributing to an extended operational lifespan. A substantial rubber bump-stop ensures smooth returns, reducing shock loading, cylinder wear, and wear on other moving parts.
Versatile Mount & Demount Head
Featuring an equi-dimensional shape, the hardened alloy steel mount and demount head facilitates smooth tire bead gliding during mounting and demounting. Additionally, a rugged polymer mount/demount head with an adapter is included to safeguard delicate tires and rims from potential metal-to-metal contact damage.
Pneumatic Control Valves
Industrial-grade pneumatic control valves with die-cast and machined bodies constructed from zinc and aluminum ensure durability and performance. High-performance polyurethane seals and self-lubricating Teflon® piston guides enhance the tire changer's longevity, while muffled extrication ports keep the valves clean.
Adjustable RimGuard™ Wheel Clamps
Ranger's exclusive RimGuard™ wheel clamps, expandable up to 30", are crafted from high-quality hardened steel. Featuring two sets of multi-teeth jaws for internal and external clamping, along with vertical mounting bolts, these clamps offer quick and efficient tire changes.
Convenient Bead Lubrication
The geometric tabletop design makes bead lubrication more accessible, facilitating visual inspections and ensuring smooth mounting and demounting of crucial lower beads.
User-Friendly Foot-Pedal Control
Forged steel foot pedal levers with snap-action springs provide durability and responsiveness, preventing accidental tire tears and maintaining operational speed. Multi-link rod connections ensure non-binding plunger movement and precise bilateral control.
TurboBlast™ Bead Seating
Exclusive to Ranger tire changers, the TurboBlast™ bead seating system utilizes a powerful blast from an attached hose to assist in seating stubborn beads. The non-marring nylon discharge barrel ensures control during air discharge between the tire and wheel, backed by an eight-gallon surge tank for heavy-duty use.
Maintenance-Free Gearbox
The newly designed maintenance-free gearbox features a large oil and grease reservoir for efficient heat dissipation and lubrication. Precision helical gears operate smoothly and quietly, eliminating vibration and component stress.
Comprehensive Wheel Service Accessories
To optimize shop efficiency, the tire changer comes with essential accessories such as a soap bucket, brush, plastic wheel protector kit, bead-breaker blade boots, specialized mount/demount head covers, and a hardened steel tire iron and bead lever tool.
Sealed Electrical Components
Ranger tire changers are completely sealed to protect electrical terminals, auxiliary switches, and motor enclosures from dust and contaminants, ensuring a clean and worry-free operation.
Advanced Drive Belt System
The convex sidewalls of the drive belt evenly distribute wear, providing support for the tire changer's efficiency over an extended period. Flex-bonded cords and flex-weave covers protect against oil, heat, and other contaminants.
Spring-Assisted Tool Shaft
A 45 mm spring-assisted hexagonal vertical tool shaft, combined with a hardened-steel horizontal outrigger support arm, maintains precise positioning of the mount-demount tool head, reducing the risk of tire damage.
Foot-Controlled Tire Inflator
The pedal-activated tire inflator, conveniently located for easy access, allows hands-free operation. A sure-grip clip-on valve chuck and an integrated air pressure dump valve further enhance the tire changer's user-friendly design.
In summary, the R980XR tire changer by Ranger combines efficiency, durability, and user-friendly features, making it a reliable choice for a variety of tire-changing applications in automotive repair shops.
Ranger LS43B 3D Quick-Touch™ Laser-Spot™ Wheel Balancer with 40 mm Shaft
Supreme Velocity and Exceptional Precision
The Ranger LS43B wheel balancer accommodates wheels up to 43 inches in diameter with an impressive average cycle time of just 7 seconds, making it one of the fastest and most dependable balancing machines ever engineered. The standout feature of this model is undoubtedly Ranger's exclusive 3D Quick-Touch™ Laser-Spot™ technology, which precisely highlights the optimal location for operators to apply minimal weight, ensuring a perfect balance at the 6 o'clock position. This technology simplifies the determination of exact weight placement positions, typically requiring only a single weight for most wheel and tire configurations.
4 Compelling Reasons to Opt for a Laser Wheel Balancer
Laser-Spot Technology
Increasingly utilized in high-volume shops, laser balancers, by eliminating second-guessing, expedite weight placements, resulting in cleaner balance checks after inboard and outboard weight application. Minimizing the number of weights used enhances your profitability, and customers benefit from long-lasting balances that rejuvenate their driving experience. When ALU modes are chosen, and stick-on weights are preferred, intuitive lasers mark the low-side of the wheel at the 6 o'clock position, streamlining stick-on weight placement. For clip-on weights, the automated data control identifies topside weight positioning, directing the laser precisely at 12 o'clock. Laser-Spot™ technology enhances weight placement accuracy, reducing errors for more efficient operations and increased profits.
Automatic Wheel Data Entry
Featuring Ranger's exclusive 3D Auto Data Entry technology, this balancer eliminates the need for manual input of wheel parameters. Retrieving wheel diameter, wheel width, and offset distance takes an average of three seconds, thanks to the extendable DataWand™ for outer-wheel information and an inner data set arm for detecting offset distance. The highly precise digital sensor technology ensures accurate data entry, especially crucial for newer high-tech OEM and aftermarket wheels.
Highly Accurate Digital Sensor Technology
Ranger's advanced Digital Sensor Technology incorporates a 16-digit digital signal processor and single-chip technology, enhancing speed and accuracy during sophisticated balancing and weight placement techniques. This technology is particularly beneficial for newer high-tech OEM and aftermarket wheels.
Automatic Braking
The dual-plane automatic electromagnetic braking system engages after a quick wheel spin, automatically slowing, stopping, and holding the wheel in the correct position. This eliminates the need for a foot-activated brake with wheel-holding pedals, providing technicians with freedom of movement when placing weights on both inner and outer wheel faces. Dual Laser-Spot™ lasers pinpoint the precise locations for stick-on or clip-on wheel weights, with a bright LED beam activated at the moment the brake engages, remaining active until the stop button is manually pressed.
Multi-directional Quartz Piezoelectric Load Sensors
Utilizing dual-component piezoelectric quartz load sensors and a digital rotation encoder, the balancer measures longitudinal, transversal, and shear effects for multi-directional force unbalance detection. These highly sensitive sensors offer superior stability and fatigue resistance, ensuring unlimited service life for your wheel balancer.
Quick & Precise Setup
The self-centering, non-marring Quick-Nut and bell adapter set ensures proper wheel centering, reducing setup errors and minimizing the risk of customer come-backs or costly wheel damage.
Mounting Cone Package
The LS43B laser balancer comes equipped with standard and heavy-duty mounting cones, along with a comprehensive accessory tooling package. The package includes three automotive and light truck cones (1.75” - 2.75”, 2.75” - 3.50”, and 3.50” - 4.25”) and one truck cone (4.50” - 5.00”).
Tape Weight Feeder
An open-top side shelf accommodates a large roll of Ranger Quick-Peel™ adhesive tape weights. A complimentary wheel weight starter kit is included, fitting directly into a built-in tape weight feeder, and additional weights are available for purchase.
Automatic Weight Optimization
The laser wheel balancer features weight optimization technology that calculates the minimum weight needed for optimal balance, reducing weight usage and contributing to long-term savings and increased profitability.
User-friendly Operation
An anti-reflective, touch-pad display panel with tire and wheel assembly graphics simplifies the rapid entry of wheel data. The display panel guides technicians through each balancing procedure with operator function keys labeled using simple, easy-to-read icons.
LED Rolling Wheel Weight Displays
Bright LED weight placement indicators show weight positions as the wheel is gently rolled to exact top-dead-center, assisting operators with clip-on and tape weight placement at precise locations for zero-on balancing. Tiered weight placement indicators help identify out-of-sight weight placements, such as split-weight or hidden "behind-the-spoke" techniques.
Features of the R980XR NEXTGEN™ Swing-Arm 25" Tire Changer:
- Adjustable Clamps for Wheel Clamping Method
- Table Clamping System
- Bead Breaking System
- Tool Holder
- Inflation Gauge With Integrated Air Dump Valve
- Inflation Pressure Regulator/Limiter
- Water Filter
- Oiler / Lubricator
- Air Regulator
- Breaker Bar
- Large Soap / Lubricator Bucket
- Brush
- Alloy-Steel Mount/Demount Head
- Plastic-Polymer Mount/Demount Head
- Tower Design
- Inflation Restraint Device
- Bead Seating System
- Tool Tray / Bin Storage
- Motorcycle Turntable Clamps
Features of the LS43B Wheel Balancer:
- Dynamic, Static, and Performance Alloy settings
- Multi-user save function for increased productivity
- Ergonomic control board and easy-to-read LED display
- Simultaneous retrieval of static, dynamic, and ALU1/ALU2/ALU3 data
- Automatic rolling wheel parameter setting feature for time savings and error reduction
- Low-RPM balancing speed
- Rapid 7-second cycle time
- Automatic braking
- Gram/ounce selection and millimeter/inch selection
- Automatic round-off with top-dead-center weight position indicator
- Tiered weight placement indicators for identifying out-of-sight position weight placements
- Manual or automatic start when the hood is lowered
- Self-calibration function
- High-volume top weight tray and side shelf storage for a wide variety of wheel weights and tools
- Newly designed side shelf with an open-top design for Ranger Quick-Peel™ adhesive tape weight bulk rolls
- Precision-machined, hardened-steel 36 mm shaft
- Quick-release hub nut for reduced set-up times
- Side-position brake holds wheels at precisely 12-o’clock for proper weight placement
- Side cone storage pegs keep accessories readily available
- “Open-side” hood design allows for broader coverage of tire shapes and sizes
Includes:
- Wheel Weight Kit 1400 Pcs.
- One bulk roll of 700 silver adhesive steel tape weights
- One bulk roll of 700 black adhesive steel tape weights
