hi

yeah i would also only tape the tires if they are used with beadlocks.
also if you overlap the tape or double tape it with time and driving in dirty dusty conditions the thing will become loose. it may hold up quite some time though. if you destroy the rims at the hex or drive down the tires before the tape gets loose its ok of course. my experience is that this is unlikely to happen.

i agree that in heavy offroad conditions you may want some soft inserts for better grip. i personally never understood why people where complaining about balooning tires with monster trucks. balooning tires help to control the car when doing backflips etc. so i do not see the negative point there anyways.

concerning beadlocks. i only have some experience with the new maximizer beadlocks. they hold up ok. but still come off sometimes. don't know if there are "better" ones.

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rhylsadar

i think the ballooning issue is that you lose traction. the tires get thinner so theres less of the tire touching the ground. ive always taped my tires, so i really have no experience with running tires that balloon. im not even sure if ballooning tires make you lose thhaaaat much traction...does it? like if you run on loose terrain....

I tape and balance all my MT tyres. I tried to remove the tape on one of them recently and it couldnt come off - no chance of it coming unstuck. Make sure you clean the tyres with metho first (dunno what you guys call it... spirits? just pure alcohol from the hardware store used for a solvent) then I wrap two layers of gaffa tape around the inside.

The rims are nearly always perfectly balanced, so before you glue is a good time to balance the tire - adding strips of tape about 1/4-1/3 the circumference of the tyre on the light spot and after 2 or 3 goes you will have a nicely balanced tyre. zero wobbling or balooning at high speed.

Oh, and badlands eat zombie max's for breakfast. - they are also the only tyre ive ever bought that wasnt badly unbalanced (the other being panther 1/10 2.2 sand tyres). That was back before I strapped my tyres though, got some good ballooning going. Vid

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yeah badlands are nice no questions 'bout that. they are quite small however. on the revo it looks ok. on a flm extended savage.... idk. but thats just a cosmetic question.

about the taping. so we see how experience differs. i guess it also makes quite a difference how and where you drive your cars how good this taping holds up.
or maybe we just had bad luck.

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rhylsadar

True.. or maybe I just drive my truck like a girl :P nah couldnt be :)

Forgot it was flm extended sav... badlands would look small. 40 series moabs look awesome on the sav XL, so would probably be good on the flm - http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXJGS0&P=ML

As much as I would like to disagree with you sammus..I do think that some 40 series moabs would look tuff.

:lol: yeah yeah, i promise, they look tuff as. I'll try and get some pics soon. Only problem is with those big wheels in a big heavy sav you start doing things like shearing dogbones and snapping teeth of diff pinions a bit easier... The truck I'm talking about was an XL though so had bigger thicker dogbones with heaps less torsional flex/give - which i suspect is what caused most of the problems.

hey sammus how do you balance your tires? and where do you put the strips of tape at? and do you use the same tape you used to double tape the inside of tire?