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Old 03-05-2007, 10:24 AM   #1
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Default bb's in tires are pretty noisy

plastic BB's are loud at 3/4 full

just my 2 cents...anyone agree?
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Old 03-05-2007, 10:36 AM   #2
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plastic BB's are loud at 3/4 full

just my 2 cents...anyone agree?
Yep... I do... But the metal BB's are even louder..;)
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Old 03-05-2007, 10:41 AM   #3
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Yep. They're loud. But they do seem to help. Just to be goofy I tried to drive up my son's slide with my WK, stock, nothing doing, it wouldn't even pull the back wheels up on the slide. With nothing but a little weight shifting and putting BB's in all four wheels, it went right up the slide.
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Tip : wraping one or two rounds of electric tape on the rim surface before you fill in the bb's. The noise will reduce a lot.
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9 oz in the XTM thorns I used to run sounded like maracas when I drove.
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Old 03-06-2007, 04:58 AM   #6
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Tip : wraping one or two rounds of electric tape on the rim surface before you fill in the bb's. The noise will reduce a lot.
I actually thought about doing this, or using some really thin foam. This time around though, I did neither since it would have required me to bake/unglue the stock tires from the rims and then glue them back. Which I didn't want to do. So I just drilled a hole in each rim to feed the BB's through....
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Old 03-06-2007, 07:12 AM   #7
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Yea, I thought they were loud, too.
I forgot about the racket when I figured out how much they helped...
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