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01-22-2011, 04:16 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: SENECA
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|  Pre Treating Tires and After Cleaning
Does anybody pre treat there tires before they crawl? Do you clean them afterwards?? I've been using Simple Green to clean the tires after a event
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01-22-2011, 04:38 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: I miss Rowdy
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Pretreating/cleaning can be useful on certain rock conditions. Most people use simple green to clean their tires before runs. This gets all the dust and debris off the tires and actually makes the tires a little tacky. Does it help? Certain rocks are dusty all the time and cleaning the tires is counterproductive in these conditions. On very smooth, slick, and clean rocks, cleaning is a good thing. I rarely clean my tires anymore. I feel its not necessary for me and where I compete. Some people think that the simple green leaves a tacky film on the tires, it kinda does, but it picks up dust like crazy. Simple soap and water cleaning is how I clean my tires anymore if I want to clean them. I do keep simple green in my crawler bag though for touch ups if I get a bunch of mud/dirt on them. Keeping them clear of dirt and mud is the most important thing. Dust is not that big of a deal to me anymore. All the places I compete at are pretty dusty anyways. If you compete in dusty dirty areas, Cleaning is not that important. But if all the rocks in your area are clean, then cleaning them wont hurt one bit!  Clean tires let the rubber do its job!
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01-22-2011, 05:49 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: SENECA
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Thanks for the info. Have you ever heard of anyone using Zippo fluid
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01-22-2011, 05:50 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: May 2010 Location: So. Charleston. Wv
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I clean my tires with hot water an original dawn dish soap. dry them after a good cleaning and they are good and sticky. Not that im worried about them been sticky i just like to clean up stuff alot but the sticky helps haha
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01-22-2011, 05:53 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: I miss Rowdy
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01-22-2011, 06:46 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: SENECA
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A set of cleaned boss claws on carpet equals some nasty traction
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01-22-2011, 07:13 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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3M spray adhesive works wonders too!  |
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01-22-2011, 07:37 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: SENECA
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