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Old 02-08-2007, 11:30 PM
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you put holes in the tires do you don't destroy your foams, I have tires I have ran for almost 2 years with holes in them, 2.2 truck tires and monster truck tires, no tire damage. WAY better than the little holes in the rims, plus you can put 3-4 holes per tire. Most every racer I know does this. Wash your tires in water, adn with no holes in teh rims, no matter how hard you squeeze, ther is going to be water in the tire, with holes in the tire, the water automatically works its way out of the tire.
Ok, gluing Tires, 1/8 buggy,
Trim the edge of your foams,
Get some tire bands
Clean the gluing edge of the rim with some rubbing alcohol
place tires onto rims
Pull bead inside of mounting track
Depending onm which glue you use you either (1-5second glue) place bead in mounting bead adn glue 4 spots on one side of tire( at corners basically) and move to teh next tire, due all 4 like this, then flip over and repeat.
flip over and fill between tack spots, flip over repeat.
(10-15 second glue) Leave bead inside of mounting track, run a bead of glue around track and plop bead into mounting grooveand push into place making sure to seat tire well, move to next tire, next, next, flip and repeat. Drilling holes is a good thing.
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