JATO tires/rims for offroad????

[glassdoctor]

What do you Jato guys do for a Jato tires? The stockers aren't much good offroad, in the yard etc... so I'm thinking it's best to go to a standard 2.2 wheel. Then you can take your pick of dozens of tires. I'm thinking something like Dirt Hawgs for general bashing, or the Mashers with some gearing work.

I'm told the Nitro Rustler wheels would work well. But I don't know about the offset and what about the fronts?

Anyone tried these or any others? I don't have a Jato to even look at but I'm trying ot help my brother in law who's going to get one.

Oh... and what about the gearing? Easy to gear down?

[BrianG]

I was using Gladiators in the rear and Edge in the front. It seemed to work OK at the LHS track, but I've since blown the rear rims and the tires (don't ask) and am going to try some Team Losi step pins in the rear, but the track has been too muddy to try them out. These feel like they are made of a softer compound so they should work ok.

All of these are 2.2" rims BTW. You'll be fine if you are using the stock arms, but if you use the RPM arms, you'll have to shim the fronts out about 1/8" and use grub screws to hold the axle carrier pins in place. The stock button head screws will rub on the inside of the rim.

I was using these 2.8" Imex rims and these 2.8" on-road tires for a while. The rims are still holding up fine, but not happy with the foam in the tires. The foam seems to have "gone away" and the tires feel empty. BTW: It looks like Imex finally updated their site so it actually looks somewhat professional.

[crazyjr]

I use traxxas lightweight dish wheels and edge front and lugnut tires