r8derhed5150
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Haven't left home yet to try and grab some spare links. I keep banging my head about these tires! If I am going to buys a new set, I want a nice decent high mass set of rims and some good good tires. But I can't see myself putting the cost of the truck into a set of wheels. So to give these tires one last chance, I finally tried them without the inserts. Only messed around with it at home and the office so far and it's definitely gained some traction. It's a pretty big difference imo because of the increased "turn twist", not torque because this is the twist that happens when making a hard right turn on a high traction surface like no pile carpet and as I mentioned early on that it's just the rear axle wanting to continue on its original path due to a locked diff. Tightening up the left rear spring helped that initially but the extra traction won this time. It sounds bad, but the office is not it's intended playground.
I may just color match the wheels instead to freshen it up a little. I think for this footprint and weight, these tires are probably just fine without the inserts. I think the sidewalls are close to the right stiffness for this truck. At rest it seems the contact patch is about 1.5". I think with the insert it was maybe 3/4 to 1". Approach feels nice. Sinks in enough but no crazy sidewall folding. Looks legit so I will let it go and see what happens. The inserts might be necessary on a heavier 1/10 scale, but a little 1/18? Even after trimming them, I say just take them out.
I gotta slow down a little with the holidays coming. Son is asking Santa for the Polar Express train set and I think I'm getting dad the gmade jeep crawler. He liked the realistic c-channel chassis and u-bolts on the axles and leaf springs. The price seems good. If anyone has any alternate suggestions to this truck, please let me know! It's only about $250 ATR. Throw a DX2E in to get it moving. At least it has drag brake.
I may just color match the wheels instead to freshen it up a little. I think for this footprint and weight, these tires are probably just fine without the inserts. I think the sidewalls are close to the right stiffness for this truck. At rest it seems the contact patch is about 1.5". I think with the insert it was maybe 3/4 to 1". Approach feels nice. Sinks in enough but no crazy sidewall folding. Looks legit so I will let it go and see what happens. The inserts might be necessary on a heavier 1/10 scale, but a little 1/18? Even after trimming them, I say just take them out.
I gotta slow down a little with the holidays coming. Son is asking Santa for the Polar Express train set and I think I'm getting dad the gmade jeep crawler. He liked the realistic c-channel chassis and u-bolts on the axles and leaf springs. The price seems good. If anyone has any alternate suggestions to this truck, please let me know! It's only about $250 ATR. Throw a DX2E in to get it moving. At least it has drag brake.
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