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10-10-2007, 11:43 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Maple Ridge B.C. Canada
Posts: 83
|  New Guy Yo... how goes it? i picked up a wheely king last week. its at 12" wheelbase now with traxxas parts. new driveshafts. jb welded the diffs. i ahve the 15 t pinion waitin on the 96 spur.. should be here today. i am buildin her for rocks/ dirt trails. im in the process of building a trail system right now in my yard.one of the mods ive been most happy with is drilling bigger holes in the rims and cut up my tires. i lost 70 grams of weight off the tires. and they flex just great now. has anyone else done this? i havent taken any pics yet. i'll do that tonite. wicked board B.T.W. it helped with my descision on which truck too get. and also explained the mods and parts i needed.. thanks...  |
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10-10-2007, 01:58 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: St. John's
Posts: 551
| Do you mean cutting your stock tires to look something like this?  I ran my tires like this for a few months. I dremelled of the portions of lugs and sanded down the sidewalls. They were super soft - well, actually, almost too soft - and I did'nt bother to put foam in. They worked a heckuva lot better than in stock form, that's for sure. Well worth the effort until I managed to get a set of Rock Claws. Cheers, Sean |
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10-10-2007, 02:14 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Albuquerque
Posts: 96
| These are my rear tires  These are the fronts  I can definitely tell a difference. I just used a hobby knife from Home Depot. It came with a ton of blades and two different sized handles. |
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10-10-2007, 02:25 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: St. John's
Posts: 551
| That looks quite similar to my tires after the first cut:  I used three cut-off wheels stacked on my dremel. Cut those grooves like a charm and with little chance of a serious cut to the fingers/leg (unlike with an x-acto(?) kinife:  |
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10-10-2007, 06:55 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Maple Ridge B.C. Canada
Posts: 83
| nice guys.. i'll post pics up tonite...got my rock lights and headlights mounted today. |
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10-18-2007, 09:42 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Maple Ridge B.C. Canada
Posts: 83
| as promised here are a few pics of my "blown" wheely king..lol i mounted some lights too the front...i also mounted soem lights too the underside of the roof..works great at nite...   some pics from my trail course at home..       and a crappy pic of a skidplate i made.. i'll get some better pics of it...  |
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10-19-2007, 10:29 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: 909 Highland
Posts: 133
| Cool , looks great!Needs more mud though.  |
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10-19-2007, 01:24 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vancouver B.C Canada eh
Posts: 3
| lol.. not5 really....took forever too tear her down and do the maintence....i'll be stickin too rocks me thinks.. |
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10-19-2007, 05:56 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Maple Ridge B.C. Canada
Posts: 83
| oops sorry guys forgot my budy was signed in..lol |
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