I love Canyon Trail's, I've never even had a TRX4 and I run them on my SCX10 and ECX Barrage. Thanks for all your videos, you're always the most consistent and concise resource for RC stuff like this on the platform; your presentation is so 'up my alley'. I personally wrap rims in some solder like you, then 4 weights, then tight electrical tape around the whole thing; helps re-installing the tire and situating the foams inside. I also love soft wheels; so with all that inside the rim; I got proline soft outers, and cut stock inner foams for dual-stage open-cell foam pliability.
I just added 4 oz of wheels weights onto my SCX10 iii. Gonna give them a shot this weekend. I effectively doubled the weight, for starters only put in the front, but i may put half as much in the rear as well if i decide to after testing.
To add to my last comment, I also recall trying 2 oz of air rifle BB's in a pretty much stock RedCat Everest 10 just for fun. That thing climbed like a billy goat! Because the BB's always stayed at the bottom of the tire the truck could almost climb vertical without flipping backwards! It sounded a bit weird though. Kind of like waves crashing over and over as the tires rolled forward.. LOL Couldn't argue with the results though!
Ball bearings are the way forward, even moreso on the smaller scales 😀 like my 1/24 modified rock and trail crawlers in a living miniature outdoor landscape.
This video really helps, I just started building a TRX4 sport unassembled kit a while ago and I'm very close to finishing it and knowing things like these are always useful, thanks for the help!
I definitely have to try the knob modification on my tires. I just need the snow to melt up here in Michigan so I can go out and have some RC fun without freezing my fingers off.
actually the canyon tires are no that bad at all ,the foams are the thing to change just out of the box ,something like pro line or laserfoam ,or just add some larger foam ring to this ,it works much better ,or freeze the wheels in refrigerator before closing the rim vent holes with a piece of some tape -air expands and makes nice tire pressure effect ,it works nicely ,i did it quite often in winter crawl/wet conditions
You can get wheel weights at most tire shops with adhesive backing on them really cheap to add weight to your tires. They come in strips of one oz and half oz segments.
Old racing trick: Soak your tires in WD40. It softens them and makes them incredibly sticky. If you have decent tires already and just want them better...Get the tires wet with WD40, put them in a large zip lock bag with a little more WD so they stay wet. Squeeze the air out and seal. Let them sit 4 to 6 hours and check. For hard crap stock tires let them sit overnight. Sitting overnight will turn them into jelly. BUT, they will get more firm and usable after a few hours so don't get worried. Using a tire treatment like VHT will give you insane traction. (Ever see those drag strip videos where they are walking on fly paper and people lose shoes? That's VHT) It's really designed for track racing but if you are in a competition, it will at least give you crazy grip that slowly goes away as you progress through the course. Even for a trail run, the treatment does prep the tire and make it more pliable etc. Far as I know, there is no downside to running it aside from random leaves getting stuck to your tire. LOL 1/4oz wheel weights with adhesive from Amazon are cheap and work as well.
👍 Good stuff! I found just by putting 2 vent holes in my TRX4 sport tires o posit each other in the tires made my tires feel softer and did make them get a bit softer after a few runs.
Love free. Have tried the wheel weights and it's really good. That is one advantage of beadlocks as they're always heavier. There are new kits by CrossRC and the wheels come with wheel weights and each wheel weighs about 150 grams box stock. #gamechanger
very interested, ......BUT..... at 6:12 you explained the appropriate wheel rotations.... at 8:39 I can see the front tires spinning on the right way.... at 9:35 the rear tires are rotating on the wrong directions..... ?????
How about tire venting? A leather punch is nice and clean what size hole would you recommend? Also is it better to do it in the sidewall or the tread? I am in dire need an answer! You guys are there crawling gurus around here! All of my local hobby stores have a completely mixed opinions... also I have a brand new TRX four sport and contemplating adding weight to the front. At what locations would you recommend for that particular vehicle. I know you guys are very well-versed in Traxxas RC ‘s. Thank you very much for your time in the consideration. Keep up the good work!
So i want to change either the foam or the tire but keep the rim becuase its a camel edition and i love the original rims. i want to change it because i stupidly waded the truck in mud water before sealing up the breathing hole in the rim. then before it dried out i sealed it with hot glue. so now i get imbalances and the tires are a bit squashed. Any suggestions?
Preheat your oven to 300 then turn it off. While waiting on your oven to reach 300 degrees wrap your wheel/tire in aluminum foil like a baked potato. Put the wrapped wheel /tire assembly in the oven for 15 minutes then pull out of the oven and using a towel so you don't get burned,unrap and pop the tire off the wheel and set aside to cool. You can then wash the inside of the tire and foams and let air dry if you plan to ever reuse in the future.
Thanks for all your contributions. One question, do you find boiling or baking better for breaking down the glue holding the tire onto the rim? Those look like they came off pretty cleanly.
Baking stinks up the oven and the house your wife or mother will not appreciate that very much, boiling never worked for me, acetone may eat the tire or the wheel and the foam, and their is the method of using a heat gun keep it a few inches away from your wheel and tires work in small sections at a time focusing on where the bead of the tire and wheel are where the glue is. It is ime consuming but works. Becareful not to melt your wheels, wear thick leather gloves, and work in a well ventilated area.
No, we don't plug the holes. We believe they vent holes are essential to prevent air pressure from building up and interfering with the action of the foam. When we run in water, we plug the holes or we drain the inside of the tire and dry out the foam after.
Are the 150g a good weight for your wheels? I got some aluminum beadlocks from ebay which have these 5g metal plates all around them. Complete wheels with tires weigh 250g... is that too much?
@@travispratt6327 about 200 gramms. But new, heavier steel beadlocks an without added weight plates around the rim. So the rotational mass is more in the center.
@@Heggatron What crawler you got? I just bought an Everest 10 and deciding on wheel weights, today I think I’m going to try free ballast bbs or pellets and see how they run, seems to give some unique advantages like always lowest possible cg and should be easiest on the drivetrain.
@@travispratt6327 sounds good. But no foams then? I have an element Enduro gatekeeper. Good platform and I like the style of the body. But because it's made of molded plastic an not just thin lexan I really have to get the weight low.
@@Heggatron Yea I guess the weight of the ballast can replace the foam, since foam just tries to push the rubber to the ground and the ballast will be doing that.
You can do this with every type of rim, however, the stock wheels on the TRX4are not beadlocks, and you need the remove the rims themselves from the tires.
@@RCReviewChannel I tried with my axial SMT10 tires as I'd stripped the wheel hex but the tires were fine until I tried removing them, I tried boiling, baking, acetone and none of those worked the inner edge remained firmly glued. I end up buying new tires/rims. You mentioned removing the glue so I thought you may have some ideas on it. A video on that, with a way that works would be v. helpful
Harder foams simulate normal street and freeway driving. On rocky trails, real 4-wheel vehicles aird down their tires to about 12 psi to get some performance.
@@RCReviewChannel ok. I just felt like some tires squish way too much that they come off looking like they would be tires low on air on a real car. thanks.
