Ranger R76ATR Tire Changer with Tilt-Back Design and Assist Tower
Elevated Tower Tire Changer with Power Assistance
When it comes to streamlining tire changes in your repair business, the R76ATR from Ranger offers a comprehensive solution for efficient and safe tire replacements, particularly when dealing with challenging aluminum wheels. Designed for user-friendliness, it features adjustable RimGuard™ clamps and a tilt-back tower, saving valuable time when loading new sets of wheels—eliminating the need for constant adjustments to match each wheel's diameter. The assist tower is particularly effective for handling low-profile and run-flat tires, ensuring secure bead placement in the drop-center area and safeguarding the tire during the process. Additionally, a centering cone aids in external clamping, and a specialized saucer/roller combination provides an extra layer of defense against stubborn beads.
Specialized Versatility
The R76ATR is a highly specialized and versatile tire changer, strategically placing ergonomic controls to minimize excessive reaching, walking, or bending, resulting in increased daily productivity and enhanced profitability. Time-saving features include a multi-profile traveling drop-center tool, top bead assist rollers, lower bead lifting disc, and a nylon non-marring wheel restraint device. This collection of tire shop tools significantly reduces effort, enhances safety, and mitigates operator fatigue. The large 30” capacity turntable is equipped with adjustable, hardened-steel RimGuard™ wheel clamps, offering an internal clamping capacity of 8”- 26” and an external clamping capacity of 10”- 30”.
Electric Turntable Efficiency
Powered by a high-torque electric turntable drive, the R76ATR ensures increased speed and reversible direction for swift tire removal and installation. Controlled speed allows low-profile and run-flat beads to relax, reducing the risk of tire damage during the process.
Adjustable RimGuard™ Wheel Clamps
Crafted from durable hardened steel, the adjustable RimGuard™ wheel clamps accommodate wheels ranging from 9” up to 30”, featuring internal and external multi‐teeth jaws with vertical mounting bolts for quick and easy replacement.
Advanced Clamp Positioning
The versatile clamp positioning provides improved control, allowing precise placement within the entire clamping range without the need for full-cycling.
Effortless Bead Lubrication
A geometric tabletop design facilitates easy bead lubrication, enabling operators to visually inspect the lower bead during tire mounting and inflation.
Innovative Bead-Breaker Design
The proprietary bead-breaker design includes bilateral pneumatic accelerators for lightning-fast bead-breaking in both directions. Featuring a 100% stainless steel cylinder body, it eliminates concerns about moisture contamination from corrosion. Exclusive design elements include a multi-axis adjustable blade, a large dual-flange axle to prevent blade flex, and adjustable settings to accommodate a variety of tire and wheel combinations.
Enhanced Bead-Breaker Blade
The enhanced bead-breaker blade boasts rugged box frame construction, increasing mechanical strength, service life, and overall performance. A large rubber bump-stop ensures a smooth return, reducing shock loading and minimizing wear on pneumatic components, guides, and moving parts.
Balanced Flywheel
The balanced flywheel reduces vibrations during operation, minimizing stress on the machine and ensuring smooth, low-maintenance performance over an extended lifespan.
User-Friendly Foot-Pedal Control
Crafted from forged steel for durability, the foot pedals feature a snap-action spring return for precise and safe operation. The foot-pedal control valves, complete with multi-link rod connections, ensure non-binding plunger movement and precise bilateral control.
Right-Side Tower Drop-Center Design
The right-side assist tower incorporates a multi-profile traveling drop-center tool, effectively handling stubborn sidewalls in the drop-center area for quick and precise mounting. Equipped with a power-drop top bead assist roller, this tower simplifies the removal and installation of tough sidewall tires. The upfront trigger control and articulating arm allow for variable tire and wheel configurations, while the heavy-duty, tri-flange, cast-iron assist tower carriage ensures maintenance-free operation with linear way bearings.
Tilt-Back Tower Design
Utilizing a tilt-back tower design, Ranger enhances ground clearance, making tire removal and inflation easier. For seamless setup with like sets of tires and wheels, a pneumatically locked tool head stays in place on the tower return.
Advanced Drive Belt System
The drive belt features convex sidewalls, distributing wear evenly throughout the structure and providing structural support for improved service life. Flex-bonded cords and flex-weave covers protect against the effects of oil, weather, age, ensuring consistent belt performance.
Stainless Steel and Aluminum Pneumatic Cylinders
Engineered to minimize vibration, the pneumatic cylinders contribute to the tire changer's longevity. End-of-stroke cushions extend the life of seals, wear bands, and piston rods, while the self-lubricating and low-maintenance cylinder system ensures consistent performance throughout ownership.
Multi-Function Mount and Demount Head
The equi-dimensional shape of the hardened steel mount/demount head allows seamless function changes without moving the tool head. The smooth surface facilitates tire bead gliding during mounting/demounting, preventing costly tire damage. Additionally, a standard nylon tool head protects expensive alloy rims and wheels from marring during mounting.
Spring-Assisted Tool Shaft
To prevent wheel damage, Ranger's mount/demount tool heads feature a rigid 45 mm spring-assisted hexagonal vertical tool shaft and hardened-steel horizontal outrigger support arms. These standard features maintain precise tool head positioning during service.
Guide Bearings for All Moving Parts
Special attention to moving parts includes maintenance-free linear guide bearings for easy vertical and horizontal wheel adjustments. The horizontal arm's hardened lower roller guide ensures even-tempo oscillating movements, while durable rubber bump-stops guarantee a safe return during tilt-back operations, reducing shock loading and minimizing wear on tower guides and moving parts.
Foot-Controlled Tire Inflator
Designed for hands-free operation, the easy-to-use foot pedal tire inflator allows precise control. An integrated push-button air pressure dump valve releases tire pressure as needed.
TurboBlast™ Bead Seating
Ranger's TurboBlast™ bead seating system efficiently seats beads by releasing a burst of air between the tire and rim, ensuring a quick and damage-free process. Featuring a nylon discharge barrel with a contoured tab for controlled air discharge, this system provides a more precise and controlled seating experience.
Ranger LS43B Wheel Balancer with 3D Quick-Touch™ Laser-Spot™ Technology and 40 mm Shaft
Supreme Velocity and Remarkable Precision
The Ranger LS43B wheel balancer accommodates wheels up to 43 inches in diameter, boasting an impressive average cycle time of just 7 seconds, solidifying its reputation as one of the fastest and most reliable balancing machines ever crafted. Its standout feature lies in Ranger's exclusive 3D Quick-Touch™ Laser-Spot™ technology, designed to pinpoint the optimal location for minimal weight placement, ensuring a perfect balance at the 6 o'clock position. This innovative technology simplifies the process of determining precise weight placement, typically requiring only a single weight for most wheel and tire configurations.
4 Compelling Reasons to Choose a Laser Wheel Balancer
Laser-Spot Technology
Laser balancers, like the LS43B, are gaining popularity in high-volume shops due to their ability to eliminate guesswork and expedite weight placements. This translates to cleaner balance checks after applying inboard and outboard weights, ultimately leading to fewer weights used and enhanced cost-effectiveness. Customers benefit from long-lasting balances that restore their rides to a like-new feel. In ALU modes with stick-on weights, intuitive lasers mark the low side of the wheel at the 6 o'clock position, simplifying the placement process. For clip-on weights, the data control senses topside weight positioning, directing the laser precisely at 12 o'clock. The Laser-Spot™ system enhances weight placement accuracy, reducing errors and resulting in more single-spin balances, thereby increasing productivity and profits.
Automatic Wheel Data Entry
The LS43B incorporates Ranger's exclusive 3D Auto Data Entry technology, eliminating 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 collects outer-wheel information. Simultaneously, the inner data set arm detects the offset distance between the machine and your tire-and-wheel configuration, showcasing highly precise digital sensor technology.
Ranger's Digital Sensor Technology features a 16-digit digital signal processor and single-chip technology, boosting productivity and providing unparalleled speed and accuracy. This is particularly crucial for the sophisticated balance and weight placement techniques required for newer high-tech OEM and aftermarket wheels.
Automatic Braking
Following a swift wheel spin, the LS43B's dual-plane automatic electromagnetic braking system slows, stops, and holds the wheel in the correct position, eliminating the need for a foot-activated brake with wheel-holding pedals. Technicians gain freedom of movement while placing weights on both inner and outer wheel faces. Simultaneously, dual Laser-Spot™ lasers pinpoint precisely where stick-on or clip-on wheel weights should be fastened. A bright LED beam activates when the brake engages, providing illumination 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 LS43B measures longitudinal, transversal, and shear effects for comprehensive multi-directional force unbalance detection. The highly sensitive piezoelectric force sensors offer superior stability and fatigue resistance, ensuring an unlimited service life for your wheel balancer. High-rigidity quartz crystal sensors provide high-frequency detection in all three measured directions.
Quick & Precise Setup
A self-centering, non-marring Quick-Nut and bell adapter set guarantees proper wheel centering, eliminating setup errors. With these features, wheel mounting becomes faster and more straightforward, minimizing the risk of customer comebacks or wheel damage.
Mounting Cone Package
The LS43B laser balancer comes complete with both standard and heavy-duty mounting cones, along with a comprehensive accessory tooling package. The tooling package includes standard car and light truck cones, as well as a heavy-duty truck cone. This inclusive package encompasses three automotive and light truck cones (1.75” - 2.75”, 2.75” - 3.50”, 3.50” - 4.25”) and one truck cone (4.50” - 5.00”). Additionally, a larger double-sided centering Truck Cone Kit fitting hub sizes 4.75” – 6.75” is available separately but is also compatible with the LS43B.
Tape Weight Feeder
The open-top side shelf of the LS43B accommodates a large roll of Ranger Quick-Peel™ adhesive tape weights. A complimentary wheel weight starter kit, fitting directly into the built-in tape weight feeder, is included with your purchase. Additional weights are readily available for purchase when needed.
Automatic Weight Optimization
Featuring a computer interface with weight optimization technology, the LS43B automatically calculates the minimum weight required for optimal balance. Reducing weight usage at your establishment contributes to significant savings over time, ultimately boosting your bottom line.
User-friendly Operation
The LS43B boasts an anti-reflective touch-pad display panel with tire and wheel assembly graphics, facilitating the swift entry of wheel data. The display panel guides technicians through each balancing procedure efficiently, with operator function keys labeled with clear, easy-to-read icons.
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 weight placements, such as split-weight or "behind-the-spoke" techniques. These indicators guide operators to place clip-on and tape weights precisely, ensuring zero-on balancing.
