Moabs on Narrowed 40's: PICS

[DirkDigler]

First of all....these tires are incredibly sticky and are the best tire I have used, by far. The height is a little better than the Krocks I had been using on my clod. I just didn't like the width....and the sidewall was slightly short. I narrowed my 40 series wheels for these tires. I cut off the outter lip and hacked off at least an inch or more off the back side of the wheel. I then cut off the back wheel lip ring and ground it down so it would slide back on to the wheel, creating a new lip ring. The width is now about the same as a stock maxx wheel. I mounted the Moabs up on them and what a fit!!!!!! The tires are now the same width as the Krocks and it created a little more usable sidewall. They not only work awesome...but they look WAAAAAAAY better than on those wide wheels. I will post pics tonight. Forgot my disc today!

[broncotxt]

got any pics

[DirkDigler]

got phonics?

[badger]

Originally Posted by broncotxt

got any pics

Really! How F'ing hard is it to read the whole post?

[BENDER]

Sweet, I just got back from testing my Dirt Hawgs, and I'm pretty happy w/ how well they work. But, I did come to conclusion that they would be better w/ narrowed rims. I can't wait to see pics. 8O I think I'm going to narrow them an inch, but wasn't sure how bead would seat. Sounds like it'll be ok from what your saying, although Moabs are narrower then Dirt Hawgs I think. Did you drill holes in rims and are you running foams? I drilled six 3mm holes in mine, one behind every web in wheel. And I think I'll run slightly narrowed foams.

[DirkDigler]

small foams. I drilled holes also.
The only problem I had when narrowing the wheels was that the tire's bead didn't seat very tightly on the wheels. I had to glue them up very good! The normal bead seat(that I cut off) has a slightly larger diameter than the middle of the wheel.

[BENDER]

Cool thanks, I did notice last night that center of rim (between seats) had .070 of taper from one side to the other. :? I thought about machining new delrin "bead seats" to custom fit diameter on rim and stretch inner diameter of tire a little, just enough so tire seats tightly.

[DirkDigler]

I'll take a set!

[Rockpiledriver]

What he said^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Hey RCALLOYS, you pickin up what were puttin down?

[BENDER]

I'll see what I can find for material and let you know. I'll try to do something w/ my rims, at work, tonight. That way I can start playing w/ ideas. I think I'm only going to cut inner bead off and leave outer stock, but we'll see.

[Rockpiledriver]

Originally Posted by BENDER

I'll see what I can find for material and let you know. I'll try to do something w/ my rims, at work, tonight. That way I can start playing w/ ideas. I think I'm only going to cut inner bead off and leave outer stock, but we'll see.

You almost have to leave the outer bead, because just to the inside of it the OD of the remaining wheel is 3.700" . The dia. of the bead where the tire rests in stock form is 3.785".

So if you cut off the outer bead, the tire would be real loose on the remaining wheel.

I'm looking at possibly cutting off the whole inner bead (both lips) *after*
I turn down the ID of the inner bead to match as close as possible to the spot on the remaining wheel where I would relocate the whole inner bead section (both lips).

It appears that there is enough material at about 3/4" in from the outer bead edge (before cutting) that I can then turn down the OD of the remaining wheel to match the ID of the inner bead section that has now been removed and opened up.

Does that make any sense at all????????

[CSR]

Originally Posted by broncotxt

got any pics

Read Diglers signature out loud 5 times as fast as you can. It helps if you rock back and forth in your chair with a blank stare on your face.

[broncotxt]

sorry my bad

[broncotxt]

i wish i knew about this rc crawling before i got in to those t maxx when i was ten. by the way i read the whole form but musta missed the part about the disk my bad.

[WRMorrison]

Hey Bender, if 'ya need some delrin, let me know. I've got some I'd give you for the shipping. They're 3.5" dia. I think and about 2" thick. I'm not sure if these would work for you or not, but in case they do, let me know and I'll double check the sizes.

[BENDER]

Originally Posted by Rockpiledriver

You almost have to leave the outer bead, because just to the inside of it the OD of the remaining wheel is 3.700" . The dia. of the bead where the tire rests in stock form is 3.785".

So if you cut off the outer bead, the tire would be real loose on the remaining wheel.

I'm looking at possibly cutting off the whole inner bead (both lips) *after*
I turn down the ID of the inner bead to match as close as possible to the spot on the remaining wheel where I would relocate the whole inner bead section (both lips).

It appears that there is enough material at about 3/4" in from the outer bead edge (before cutting) that I can then turn down the OD of the remaining wheel to match the ID of the inner bead section that has now been removed and opened up.

Does that make any sense at all????????

I see what your saying, that's kinda what I was thinking. I was going to part off whole inner bead seat of rim (w/ both flanges intacted), remove an inch from inner side of rim only. then like you said do whatever it takes to line them up and glue them. I'd like to leave outer bead seats alone. So all the narrowing is done from inner side only. But, I may avoid all this and make new inner beads from scratch like I was saying.

WRMorrison thanks, I think I found some material that will work, if not I'll let you know.

[BENDER]

Originally Posted by broncotxt

got any pics

8O 8O 8O

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