You "NEED" to vent your tires! [The best way] 

Yeah I've tried pretty much every method there is and this is the best! I've never tried using any lubricant but I will from now on :-). Thanks for watching and a sub is appreciated!

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As long as you follow the procedure it'll be great :-) thanks for watching and a sub is appreciated!

Glad you enjoyed! I've tried just about every method there is and this is definitely the best. Thanks for watching and if you like my videos a sub to my channel is appreciated :-)

Nice! I don't think you'll be disappointed. If you aren't already subscribed as a sub is appreciated :-)

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Yeah I've tried all of the methods and this is the best. It is best to pick the chunk out each time and it also works best if you sharpen the edge every couple of holes but overall it goes pretty quickly.

Soldering iron definitely does work but it's stinky :-) This method is the best for sure! Thanks for watching

Maybe though dismantling is kind of difficult on glued tires and I've probably done this procedure to 50 sets of tires over the years and never had a problem. No one I've ever recommended doing this to has ever had a problem either so not really sure that's a real consideration.

I think youll be happy with it. Nice clean holes!

Venting definitely helps!

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I wouldn't recommend the soldering iron method. It does technically work but it doesn't leave as clean of a hole and stinks.

Yeah the soldering iron works as well It's just kind of erratic and definitely smelly :-)

Yes the smell is really bad and your way is much cleaner and quicker too.. 👍 @@DoRC

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That sounds like it would work just fine. Pretty much any hollow tube should do it.

It is the way :-)

I have heard some people venting belted tires but I wouldn't recommend it. Breathable tape is definitely an option that I've heard of as well. Personally I don't think belted tires are great for bashing anyway so it's never really been an issue for me. Thanks for watching and a sub is appreciated!

I would recommend not venting belted tires. When you punch the hole in them you cut through some of the belt cords and that could weaken the tire and cause it to fail. It might not but it definitely could.

Absolutely. Any non-belted tire will benefit from the tire being vented instead of the rim.

Correct. You want to seal the rims and vent the tires though. Since this video came out most major manufacturers have moved to vented tires not vented rims. The benefit of this is that moisture and debris will get flung out under centrifugal force rather than permanently trapped inside. Did you watch the video?

@@DoRC of coarse I watched the video, I guess you did not understand what I said about rims being vented is the industry standard & has been since the late 1980's. What kind of idiot runs there vehicle threw water anyways, lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@DTW-bx2vy okay I guess I didn't know what you were referring to. There are a lot of rims these days that aren't vented because most manufacturers are going to vented tires from the factory and there's no reason to have both. Personally I run in wet conditions all the time. I live in Florida which is essentially a tropical rainforest and if I refuse to run when it was wet I pretty much would never run my cars. I also run in deep fine sand and because of these two things if I don't seal my wheels and vent my tires The foams will get gross and destroyed pretty quickly. I think that I'm not alone since The entire industry is moving to vented tires as opposed to vented wheels.

I guess I'm just old school because I would rather drill holes in the wheels instead to vent the tires. I grew up with rc electronics not being waterproof & even now owning waterproof electronics, I still do not even touch wet grass (I'm a big woosy) little alone go deep sea diving like some rc owners do with with there rc vehicles, lol. @@DoRC

@@DTW-bx2vy Yeah as long as you're never in anything wet and you never bash in any sand it's really not a big deal. The problem with venting the wheels is any debris that gets in there is in there forever and that debris can degrade the foams pretty quickly if it's moisture or sand. Venting the tires just means you will never have to deal with that problem. Tire venting also seems to help prevent ballooning although I'm not really sure why.

That's a tough one. Normally I wouldn't recommend venting belted tires but if you've already got water in them then you probably don't have much to lose. The only other option for getting the water out would be to unmount the tires which will be pretty unpleasant.

@@DoRC thanks, but what if i poke holes in it? Will i completely destroy them?

@markoumer like I said venting belted tires is generally not advised because you're going to be cutting through the belts but they're never going to work properly with water in them so they're kind of already broken if you know what I mean. At this point other than unmounting the tires to get the water out you don't really have a whole lot to lose.

@markoumer The only other suggestion I would have would be to try using a food dehydrator to dry them out. I've had limited success with that in the past.

You can do that and some people do. I actually had a tire blow off the rim one time when I did that. It may have just been a glue job issue. Venting the tires does seem to help make the tires last longer as well. I don't know why I would but it really does seem to help.

@@DoRC ok cool im due for new xmaxx wheels soon so im just looking around on how to make them last. Dont want to spend $260+ every couple runs

Get the Pro-Line beadlock ones. They're heavy but they last

@@DoRC im a bit skeptic a the prolines. I know there good but there heavy. Ive got some grp wheels (i think) and I already snapped a drive pin. So I don’t really want heavy wheels

Weird. I've never broken a wheel pin on any of my X-Maxxes. They are heavy but they're good

No you can use any kind of tubing. Brass works best in my opinion because it's easy to sharpen the inside and the sharpening really helps make it clean hole. Aluminum would probably work fine as well. Steel of course be more difficult to sharpen but would stay Sharp longer. Thanks for commenting and a sub is appreciated.

@@DoRC Thanks 👍🏽

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Did they end up failing? I've never actually done it and haven't heard of anybody having a failure from it in the past.

Mine failed and became terribly unbalanced

@@IsaacSchultz-lz8jc ah good to know though that sucks.

I haven't but given there's no cutting surfaces on the back side of the drill point I think you would end up melting through if it did work. I have a hard time imagining it would leave to clean of a hole though. I think any kind of ragged hole edge could lead to the ripping in the future. You should be able to get that tubing at any hardware store though so it's pretty easy to set up to do with the tubing. Thanks for watching and if you enjoy my videos a sub to my channel is appreciated!

@@DoRC that makes sense. Better to just do it the best way first! I subbed. You earned it with your fantastic videos full of value 🤛

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Do you mean rivets? I'm not really sure how you would do that.

@@DoRC What I Meant Is Using A Rivet B/c They Are Pointed & Sharp & Put It On The Drill To Make Holes On The Tire..

@@TheTylerjoy04 oh. I'm not sure that would work. You need something that will actually cut a hole not just pierce one because if you just pierce it the rubber will flex out of the way and then flex back together and you're not really going to make a hole. The brass tubing actually cuts a chunk out of the middle so that can't happen.

@DoRC Oooh I See.. Thanks!!👍🏼👍🏼

The sledgehammers? I had to do some re-gluing.

I use 1/8 inch

Is the hole in the tube 3mm

@@mrgamerrc8055 pretty close. It doesn't have to be any exact size. 3 mm will be fine

Thanks.

I have to buy another set of the sledgehammers for my mini maxx because my tire keeps on coming unglued and eventually ripped

The holes will cut thr belts potentially causing a failure.

That's a great idea! Using a soldering iron works as well. The only reason I don't do either one of those is that they tend to make a bit of smell and a mess of your bit or soldering irons :-) thanks for watching and if you enjoy my videos a sub to my channel is appreciated!

@@DoRC Back at ya. 😎

Awesome I'll take a look :-)

​@@DoRC i don't like soldering iron too because once the tip melts into the tyre,when i took it the rubber just sticks to each other. Any idea why?

@@akaikenji518 That's kind of just part of what happens when you melt rubber. That's why I don't recommend using the soldering iron. The method in the video is the best.

1/8". Thanks for watching and a sub is appreciated:)

@@DoRC hey bud what diameter would you recommend for a 1.9in crawler tire? Thx in advance

I think 1/8 inch would be fine. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe and check my latest video for information on a cool giveaway I'm doing

It would be tough to use a hole punch because most hole punches are designed to be supported on the back side which you can't really access. If you just try to push through you'll very likely push through the foam as well once you get through the rubber which could hurt the integrity of the foam.

Yeah it's a personal preference thing. In my experience I found that the foams actually last longer if you vent the tires because contaminants don't get stuck in there.

@@DoRC it's true ! there is no perfect sealing !

Well I guess you can tell that to horizon who is making them from the factory like that now, Traxxas who recommends doing it, proline who recommends doing it and the hundreds if not thousands of people who have been successfully using that method for years without issue. As long as the hole is clean without any ragged edges you're not creating enough of a weak point to cause any issues. I have personally done this to probably over 100 tires and I've destroyed them in pretty much every way imaginable but not a single one of them has ever ripped from the hole I put in them. This isn't something I made up. It's a well-known and tested mod that people have been doing successfully for decades.