Balanced Wheels?
 

I have a E-Revo brushless edition and was wondering if I should worry about balancing the wheels or getting some that are more balanced? I only intend to bash with this, no racing. I noticed that once rolling, the stock wheels have a wobble which gets worse as speeds increase. This is most noticeable when the wheels are not making contact with the ground. So my question is if I should worry about this and if it will cause damage to a bash only monster truck. Thank you.

It's a good idea to balance all the four wheels on a buggy, especially you're going race it, unless you can glue your tires very well and it does not wobble much or at all.

Normally, if you can glue the tires moderately well, regardless of buggy or truggy tires (tires seat in the wheel bead when glued) it will not wobble, often, wobble was caused by the wheels which have taken a beating instead...

Excessive wobble tires will increased wear on drive-train, uprights, spindle/steering knuckles (the king pin bushing screw slots) etc...
But again, it's not a must to balance them, after all your truck wheel will be on the ground...
:)

It still has the stock wheels that came on it. I would have thought they would have been glued better but I guess not. I will mount up a new set and see how it goes. Thanks.

One thing I started doing is to spin the assembled tire, wheel and liner with a drill motor before I glue them. Spinning them seems to settle the liners and lets me see if there's a prob with the way they're put together before I glue them. If everything looks ok, then I go ahead and glue them. Then if I'm going to balance them, I'll take care of that befoer I run them.

I gt a lot better set of finished wheels this way.

I took the wheels off my E-Revo and tried to re-seat them to get a better fit. I think the problem is the wheels themselves. No matter how I seat them, they still wobble a lot. Would getting better wheels and tires fix this? If so, I will make the investment, if not, I won't. Like I said, this is just a basher. If wheel wobble isn't gonna harm anything I will find something else to worry about.

that's a good idea to spin them before glueing to see if they have a chance of being right once glued!

if not you might get into foam triming to be sure it is not bunching up if overly compressed. but the new molded foams are a dream. just making sure the tire seats perfect on it's bead can take some trimming too.

if your just bashing around, jumping, and smashing corners ...
tire balancing isn't going to be what saves the most of your worn out parts.

if you have alot of hi speed sections where you see the tire bouncing , then you realy have a problem with the balance.
a little bit of low speed wobble isn't the end of the world if it balances out at higher speeds. but for sure more wear to the truck and tire if not glued well

These are the wheels that came on the truck, so I didn't have a hand in gluing them. I take my time when I glue my tires and make sure they are well seated. I really think the issue is the wheels aren't seating into the wheel nut evenly. The wheels wobble even at very slow speeds and get worse as speeds increase. After thinking it through, I have decided to get new wheels and tires for safeties sake.

Well, you could get some modeling clay and balance the wheels yourself. It isn't that hard to do and will get rid of your wobble.

you can try getting a balancer from local hobby shop and some lead tape to adjust the balance.

yah for sure check that out ... where it fits to the hub.

if it has been in a bad ... accident ??? it might have broken a rim or bent the rim.

just for fun , be sure the axle and hub them selves turn true with the tire off.

or just swap out the wobbly tire to another spot to see if it follows the tire