best truggy tire for my 8ight t

Well looking for something that will hold up to onroad abuse. Anything out there that works.

let me phrase that better ashpalt abuse.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXXGA8&P=0

Wonder how these would do.

hpi makes an onroad mt wheel let me find a link

they are called hpi phatlines

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1

[Jesse M]

I have used 40 series Road Rage and HPI Phaltlines with my 8T. The Road Rages have awesome traction, but probably should be balanced for anything over 40mph and the Phaltlines are good, but not as much traction as the Road Rages probably due to the smaller tire width and I think the Phaltlines are a harder compound.

what kind of gearing did you run with the 40 series. Thats what i was thinking to go with just seems like it would have alot of tire roll compared to the 3.7 lpr,s i am used to running. I dont want to traction roll ya know. But i will deffinitly keep them on the top of my head.

As winter is coming i usually just run in front of my street to keep my self tame till spring so thats the idea behind the road tires.

but now the problem is which wheel to use on there. Cant find a dish style wheel in 40 series with 17mm hex.

[Jesse M]

I used stock spur, 50T I believe and 16T pinion. Motor temps usually
130-140s after hard running with the body off. No tire roll whatsoever do to the width and short sidewall. I used 40 series offset Wabash 10 spoke rims with the Road Rages, but I don't think they make the offset Wabash rims anymore. I would try the standard offset Wabash 10 spoke rims with the RR's. I used a couple stips of duct tape across the circumference of the inner tire spanning the width of the tread to prevent most ballooning. I also would recommend balancing the tire/wheel combo. They run much more stable/smoother after balancing. On 5s without balancing, the entire truggy would shake/vibrate like crazy. I used lead tape used for golf clubs to balance each tire/rim.

Hope this helps, glad to try and answer any questions you have

[simplechamp]

Originally Posted by boostedg60rado

but now the problem is which wheel to use on there. Cant find a dish style wheel in 40 series with 17mm hex.

Do you have to use a dish wheel?

how would i balance the tire. Just spin it and find the low spot i guess right. Never done that before.

Well i could do something else. Nothing chrome or ghetto ya know.

[Jesse M]

Spin the tire/wheel just a little bit and when it stops, place counterweights directly opposite of where the bottom of the wheel stops in small 2-3 gram increments until it starts landing on random spots. For my balancing station, I took an entire rear axle off my Mutilator and duct taped it to my work bench. The better the axle bearings, the more accurate of a balance you will get. You could also simply remove a dogbone and place your wheel/tire on the rear axle, tighten it up with the hex nut and balance away-assuming you aren't running cvd's

nice and i guess try to weight them on the inside part of the wheel. I have the 1/4 oz weights for my rock crawler. Would they work cause i have a hole box of them.

[Jesse M]

yes inside of the wheel. 1/4oz might be too much. I would start in 2-4 gram increments. 1/4 oz is about 7 grams.