Monster Truck Madness – Love of Beadlock Rings
Hey people and Happy Friday!
Little little bit of an anticipated subject this week, however with Duratrax annoucing Clip-Lock Wheel Faces for Ripper 2.8″ Wheels, I needed to speak about my love of beadlock rings for monster vans.
Beadlock rings, whether or not actual or fake, are certainly one of my favourite equipment so as to add to any monster truck to actually assist set off the look. And whereas sure, I’m a fan of strong axle monster vans, they appear incredible on impartial suspension bashing fashion vans too.
I’m a giant proponent of getting your wheels match your paint scheme. Before beadlock rings have been actually a factor, I’d all the time paint or dye my wheels, and this might be an actual ache for a number of causes.
If you had unmounted wheels, it wasn’t too dangerous I assume. But if you painted the wheels, it will lock you right into a sure fashion of paint scheme. I.e. if they’re inexperienced wheels, you in all probability must have a physique on it with inexperienced within the scheme or it’ll look foolish.
It is extra troublesome if the tires are already mounted and also you need to paint them, as then it could take some comparatively time consuming masking earlier than paint, and normally overspray will get on the tires except you’re actually meticulous (I’m not, therefore my points).
Bead lock rings have been a very simple technique to get that good custom-made look with out having to color wheels. These days, except I’m completely certain I need wheels to be a selected coloration for a truck that I’ll NEVER change physique fashion on, I depart them a impartial coloration and get my customization with the rings.
Various corporations make them for varied wheels (JConcepts ones are very fashionable with the strong axle crowd), however all are fairly straightforward to swap out. Some you simply press on and there’s sufficient rigidity to maintain them there with no adhesives. Some you simply want a dab of CA glue on. Some bolt on.
I like to recommend utilizing CA glue for press on rings for any form of truck that’s operating a brushless system, because it’s very annoying to have a hoop get flung off into the space whereas at full throttle. If you’re operating in tall grass, typically it’s laborious to search out them.
I do know that some people actually dislike the look of bead rings, particularly pretend ones at that, however I really like ’em. I really like them on full dimension vans, love them on toy vans!
Next week I’ll be again within the store making some changes to my Losi LMT and old fashioned Clod. Until then, hold it on all 4’s!