Extra tips coming in as we go: - Put a bit dielectric grease (sometimes reffered ro as tune-up grease) on your motor cable plug to prevent any water to get in the connection. This is a silicone-based grease that repels moisture and protects electrical components against corrosion. It is also used to keep dirt, water, and other elements out of electrical connections.
This is great. Thank you. May be start a series for the ADV of how to...put life savers on, change of tyre, dropping rail height, different tyre options, rails options, 3d printed accessories.
Fyi i just started wateproofing my board today. This video is great and I can add that Tony has now protected certain areas even more! Particularly the wires around the power button on the inside of the controller
Nice Video! But bad timing, cuz I just badgered my adv 1 day before this video came out 😅 I did not silicone all places that you covered in the video. So I will catch up on that. I think badgering the motor cable connector is very important. Even Tony mentioned this under my video, where I rode my board in the snow. I used non flowable silicone around that connector. Hopefully I can scrape that off the next time I need to unplug the motor 🤞
The ptft tape isn’t needed I would argue. The way this designed, the nut will put pressure on the plastic fingers, the fingers will clamp down on a rubber ring. If you want to use the ptft tape it should be making the rubber ring tighter and not the treads. Great video for the rest.
Though I appreciate these guys uploading the video, a lot in it seems overkill to me. I think Toni did a pretty good job already of preparing this board for rainy rides. Also, the factory glitches mentioned in this video weren’t so apparent in my board. This video does not really do justice to the amount of work Toni has done for waterproofing I think. But nevertheless thanks for the video! I watched it quite a few times
I know this is quite an old video, but I'm a student and am trying to see how much I'd have to save up to get a floatwheel. How much did the entire badgering process cost you?
Do you use loctite on plastics ? I juste received my board and i dont know if i do use loctite on plastics. I read on reddit, loctite eats plastics. Thanks you
Yes, it seems that it is done well by Tony. Only thing where it could possibly come in is between/around those wires. For the rest there was a lot of black silicon from Tony.
This is an air vent for the batterybox. There is a goretex sticker on the inside which lets heat, airpressure and moisture (if that somehow came in) through. The sticker doesn't let moisture in. Not too clever blocking it. As far as we know it works fine. (That means that until now we haven't heard that it didn't work properly)
