My tyres fly off!!

[Corpse Thrower]

After running my Novak 4.5 equipped Dark Impact on the road for a time I decided to put the kit tyres on the rims and go for a bash off road. I eventually got the Gruntfuggly-supplied Schumacher tyres off my Darkies rims ( much swearing and gnashing of teeth) and put the Dark Impacts stock tyres on. Give it a rev holding the car off the ground, and all the tyres instantly fly off the rims!![:@]

Read somewhere about gluing the tyres on, so I got the cement out and did it. Waited an hour, gave the car a rev, and all 4 tyres fly off again!! [:S]

The glue didn't seem to eat into the rim or the tyre!!

.....so I put the road tyres back on and went for a blat on the tarmac.....[:$]

 Anyway, what do I use to glue tyres on? I assume that if the tyres are glued properly that they will stay on? I really want to have a good go on some dirt with this thing....I get a bit too much wheelspin with the road tyres in the dirt.....[]

[monster_beetle]

Use crazy glue. Works great for me.

[neo]

Also, give the plastic on the rims and also the tires a good wash, there could be some release agent from the moulding process on them. You could also lightly scuff both surfaces (fine sand paper) that will come into contact with eachother.

[TrevCoult]

Also, give the plastic on the rims and also the tires a good wash, there could be some release agent from the moulding process on them. You could also lightly scuff both surfaces (fine sand paper) that will come into contact with eachother.

I agree with neo. Its got to be greasy stuff. I did the same as above, then used cheap cyano (superglue) from the local store and they are totally solid with an LRP brushless setup. Just don't glue your hands to the tyres like I nearly did [].

Trev 

[terry.sc]

New tyres are covered in release agent from the moulding process

which needs cleaning off before gluing. The wheel will also need

scuffing up. Clean the tyres in soapy water or with motor cleaner and

leave to dry. The grooves in the wheels want scuffing up using either a

scotchbrite pad or rolled up sandpaper.

Fit the tyres to the

wheels first, peel the edge back, put a drop of cyano in the groove and

fit the tyre back in the groove. Repeat all the way round the tyre, not

just in a few places.

Finally the greatest force trying to pull

the tyre off the wheel is when you rev the throttle when the tyres are

off the ground as with no load the wheels spin faster than on the

ground and as there is no weight pushing the car down on the ground

there is nothing to stop the tyres expanding. If thereis only one situation when the tyres will come off it is when you rev it with the wheels off the ground.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

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