Ranger R980AT NextGen™ RimGuard™ Swing-Arm Tire Changer with Single Power Assist
Power Assist Precision + Tire Changer Safeguard
When in search of a tire changer suitable for an array of commuter and passenger vehicles, including pick-up trucks and race cars, consider the space-efficient R980AT. Designed with an assist tower, it facilitates unseating stiff, low-profile tire beads and run-flats. The centering cone securely holds the bead in the drop-center during external clamping, ensuring tire protection. With versatility to accommodate a wide range of tire-and-wheel combinations, this model proves ideal for full-service repair bays and general tire shops.
Power Assist Tower
The swing-arm on the R980AT stands out as a valuable feature. When dealing with run-flats and challenging beads, the power assist tower secures the tire edge, moving along with the activated turntable. This ensures that the bead seats almost effortlessly. The swing-arm proves indispensable in handling stubborn beads, saving precious time compared to the manual approach.
Electric Turntable
An efficient high-torque electric turntable facilitates swift spinning of tires for bead seating or removal. With reverse-direction foot pedal controls, operators have complete control over the tire-changing operation. The turntable is the sole electrical component, requiring minimal maintenance over the tire changer’s service life.
Traveling Drop-Center Top-Mount Helper/Swing-In Bottom Helper Disc
Addressing tough sidewalls is made easy with a traveling drop-center tool, enhancing safety and efficiency. The swing-in disc utilizes safe pneumatic power to assist in loosening beads without causing damage to the tires.
Updated Electric Motor
Ranger motors boast robust copper rotor construction, high-quality bearings, thermal-cool epoxy insulation, and durable rolled steel frames, ensuring reliability and durability.
Upfront Controls
Convenient foot pedal controls allow hands-free operation of the turntable, while accessible pneumatic locks and switches enhance ease of use.
Stainless Steel & Aluminum Pneumatic Cylinders
Collaborating to reduce machine vibrations, steel and aluminum cylinders contribute to a low-friction environment. End-of-stroke cushioning protects seals, wear bands, and piston rods, extending the tire changer’s lifespan.
Balanced Flywheel
Balanced flywheels minimize vibrations during operation, reducing stress on the machine for prolonged durability.
Bead-Breaker Design
Enhanced bead-breaker blade speed, thanks to bilateral pneumatic accelerators, ensures efficient bead breaking in both directions. The design eliminates the risk of rust or corrosion, offering reliability in various conditions.
Enhanced Bead-Breaker Blade
The powerful bead-breaker blade returns smoothly upon detaching from the tire, minimizing shock loading and wear on the cylinders.
Multi-Function Mount & Demount Head
The equi-dimensional, hardened alloy steel mount and demount head assists in all tire changer operations. Protective plastic covers prevent contact with the wheel, ensuring the preservation of custom and high-performance wheel types.
Pneumatic Control Valves
Industrial-grade, 45-micron, pneumatic control valves with die-cast and machined bodies provide strength and durability. High-performance polyurethane seals and self-lubricating Teflon® piston guides contribute to the tire changer’s robustness.
Adjustable RimGuard™ Wheel Clamps
Ranger’s exclusive RimGuard™ wheel clamps expand up to 30”, offering versatility in clamping. Internal and external clamping is facilitated by dual multi-tooth jaw sets, and the vertical-mount design reduces tire-changing time.
Easier Bead Lubrication
The geometric tabletop design simplifies bead lubrication, allowing for easy inspection during tire mounting.
Simple Foot-Pedal Control
Forged steel foot pedals provide durability and corrosion resistance. The snap-action pedals ensure immediate return to starting positions, promoting tire-changing efficiency.
Pneumatic Tubing
High-pressure polyurethane pneumatic tubing offers better flow rates, abrasion resistance, burst tolerance, and kink resistance, enhancing the tire changer’s performance.
TurboBlast™ Bead Seating
Ranger’s TurboBlast™ bead seater efficiently forces air into tires with stubborn beads, ensuring quick bead seating. The design allows for easy aiming and control of the air burst.
Maintenance-Free Gearbox
The hands-off gearbox requires no maintenance and features a large oil and grease reservoir for improved heat dissipation and lubrication. Precision helical gears contribute to a quiet and durable operation.
Standard Wheel Service Accessories
The tire changer purchase includes a soap bucket and 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
Protected electrical terminals, auxiliary switches, and motor enclosures keep out dust and contaminants, ensuring a clean internal cavity for prolonged equipment life.
Advanced Drive Belt System
The drive belt evenly disperses wear and enhances support, resisting oil, heat, and contaminants that could affect the tire changer’s efficiency.
Spring-Assisted Tool Shaft
A spring-assisted hexagonal vertical tool shaft and hardened-steel horizontal outrigger support arm ensure stability and precise aiming of the mount-demount tool head.
Foot-Controlled Tire Inflator
The tire changer features a foot-controlled tire inflator with a sure-grip clip-on valve chuck for hands-free operation. An air pressure dump valve allows for easy tire pressure release.
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, boasting an impressive average cycle time of just 7 seconds. Recognized as one of the fastest and most reliable balancers ever built, this model is distinguished by Ranger's exclusive 3D Quick-Touch™ Laser-Spot™ technology. This innovative feature precisely highlights the location for minimal weight placement, ensuring a perfect balance at the 6 o'clock position. Achieving a flawless balance with a single weight placement is typically sufficient for most wheel and tire configurations.
4 Compelling Reasons to Opt for a Laser Wheel Balancer
Laser-Spot Technology
Increasingly popular in high-volume shops, laser balancers eliminate guesswork and expedite weight placements. This leads to cleaner balance checks after inboard and outboard weight placement, translating to fewer weights used and enhanced cost-effectiveness. The intuitive lasers mark the low-side of the wheel at the 6-o'clock position when ALU modes are selected for stick-on weights, simplifying the placement process. For clip-on weights, the data control system automatically identifies topside weight positioning and directs the laser precisely at 12-o'clock. Laser-Spot™ technology ensures greater weight placement accuracy, reducing errors and contributing to increased productivity and 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, width, and offset distance takes an average of three seconds, thanks to the extendable DataWand™ that automatically captures all outer-wheel information. Additionally, the inner data set arm detects the offset distance, streamlining the process with highly precise digital sensor technology.
Automatic Braking
Equipped with a dual-plane automatic electromagnetic braking system, the balancer ensures swift, accurate braking to hold the wheel in the correct position after a quick spin. This eliminates the need for a foot-activated brake with wheel-holding pedals, providing technicians with unrestricted movement for weight placement. The brake engagement activates dual Laser-Spot™ lasers and a bright LED beam, remaining active until the stop button is manually pressed.
Multi-directional Quartz Piezoelectric Load Sensors
Incorporating dual-component piezoelectric quartz load sensors and a digital rotation encoder, this balancer accurately measures longitudinal, transversal, and shear effects for multi-directional force unbalance detection. The high-rigidity quartz crystal sensors offer exceptional stability and fatigue resistance, ensuring an unlimited service life with superior high-frequency detection in all measured directions.
Quick & Precise Setup
Featuring a self-centering, non-marring Quick-Nut and bell adapter set, the balancer ensures proper centering of the wheel, minimizing setup errors. This setup facilitates faster and easier wheel mounting, reducing the risk of customer come-backs or potential wheel damage.
Mounting Cone Package
Provided with both standard and heavy-duty mounting cones, along with a comprehensive accessory tooling package, the LS43B laser balancer accommodates various wheel sizes. The tooling package includes automotive and light truck cones, as well as a heavy-duty truck cone, offering versatility for different applications.
Tape Weight Feeder
The open-top side shelf conveniently accommodates a large roll of Ranger Quick-Peel™ adhesive tape weights. The balancer includes a complimentary wheel weight starter kit that fits into a built-in tape weight feeder, and additional weights are readily available for purchase.
Automatic Weight Optimization
Equipped with a computer interface featuring weight optimization technology, the LS43B automatically calculates the minimum weight required for optimal balance. This reduces weight usage over time, resulting in tangible savings and an enhanced bottom line.
User-friendly Operation
The anti-reflective touch-pad display panel features graphics depicting tire and wheel assemblies, simplifying the rapid entry of wheel data. Operator function keys are labeled with easy-to-read icons, guiding technicians through each balancing procedure with efficiency.
LED Rolling Wheel Weight Displays
Bright LED weight placement indicators provide a visual guide as the wheel is gently rolled to exact top-dead-center. Tiered weight placement indicators assist in identifying hidden or split-weight placements, ensuring precise locations for clip-on and tape weights during zero-on balancing.
Specifications
R980AT NextGen™ RimGuard™ Tire Changer
Air Requirement: 140 - 165 psi (10-11 BAR)
Wheel Clamping Method:
- 4 Clamps (Internal / External)
Table Clamping System:
- Dual Pneumatic Cylinders
Bead Breaking System:
- Pneumatic Blade with Dual Settings
Power Assist Towers:
- Single Assist Tower
Tool Holder:
- Manual Lock
Inflation Gauge with Integrated Air Dump Valve
Inflation Pressure Regulator/Limiter
Water Filter
Oiler / Lubricator
Air Regulator
Breaker Bar
Large Soap / Lubricator Bucket
Brush
Tower Design:
- Rigid Fixed / Swing Arm
Bead Lifting Roller(s):
- Single Lifting Roller
Alloy-Steel Mount/Demount Head
Plastic-Polymer Mount/Demount Head
Upper Bead Assist Roller
Traveling Drop-Center Hold Down Device
Inflation Restraint Device
Bead Seating System:
- Turbo Blast / Bead Seating
Tool Tray / Bin Storage
