Best way to mount/glue tires

[robriguez]

So its not like I havent done this before but the last two times I tried it seemed like my tires needed to be balanced after I glued them.

I was running a set of Proline Dirt Hawgs II with foam on HPI 2.2 wheels without glue for about 5 sessions of bashing in a nearby dirt lot. Then I noticed the wheels starting to spin inside the tires. Ok fine...time to glue.

But this time, after I put them back on the buggy, they seemed to be all lopsided. The wheel "seemed" centered in the tire but I guees they werent.

Anyone have any tips on how I can keep this from happening again??

Thanks,

Rob

 

[ImBroken]

If you ran them unglued, chances are the foams got all twisted up, or sand & debris got into them causing them to be unbalanced or lumpy...lol Also check to see that your axle pin is seating into the rim correctly... Been there....lol
I usually mount the tire on the rim, and really feel the tire out, for high spots, uneveness, etc...
Then I'll take my CA glue, and use 4 spaced out drops on the bead of the tire, on both sides of the rim. That should be sufficient.. Good luck..

 

[AoD]

I glue mine all around the rims All my tires are popped into the beadseats and stuff, then I glue the outsides of the beadrings.

 

[ImBroken]

If you glue em all the way around, you'll have no chance at ever getting em off... It really doesn't take much CA to keep em on...

I just swithched over to the Maxximizer Beadlocks.... No more glue... Look great too....

 

[AoD]

I have no reason to take my tires off the rims

 

[RobH]

here is a link that maybe helpful:

http://www.rccaraction.com/rc/articles/ht_gluetire.asp

-rob

 

[mrfatride]

get pre mounts!!!

 

[Candyman]

It does sound like you may have picked up some debris. Unmount the tires and foams and clean them. Clean the wheels, too. This should help. One reality is that these things are just generally unbalanced. Much like full scale car tires are. And even with your best effort they may need to be weighted to get it right. First, though, I would try spinning the tire on the wheel a bit to see if you can find a point where the whole thing just seems better balanced. Mount the tires in that position. Then use a little epoxy and something heavy like screws or nuts or something and glue them on the inside rim of the wheel to get more balance.

 

[robriguez]

I've come to the conclusion that they were just unbalanced. All four tires acted like they were running over rumble strips even on flat ground. Sooooo......I took them apart again--that was a pain in the A$$ !!

I cleaned up the tires with acetone and denatured then scotch brighted the groove the bead sits in "again". The foam inserts were fine so I put those back in. This time I used some long set CA to give me some time to move things around a bit before the glue set up.

I then created my own balancing rig. Took my "Third hand" (It clamps to a workbench and has 4 aligator clips positioned to help you hold stuff that your soldering or whatever) cut a rather thick metal clothes hanger to the right size, put the wheel/tires combo on the peice of hangar, strung it between 2 of the alligator clips--after checking for level-- and I had mylsef a tire balancer.

This time around I could only find one tire that seemed to be way out of whack. Grinded a few pennies into small rectangles using my grinding wheel. Finally I epoxied a few of these rectangles onto the inside of the wheel. To make sure they wouldnt come off during bashing I tried to use a flathead scrwdriver to pry them off and they didnt budge.

Now that everything is running smooth again I'm loving these tires. Very good traction off-road and decent enough to still run around on road.

NOTE: this will not work if the wheel mouting point to the truck is not centered in the wheel. If so you will have to a) build your own rig b) buy a real balancer.