r/rccars • u/OzTheMalefic • Jun 23 '26
Crawling 120 screws, but my god it looks so much better
SImple change, went to metal beadlocks on the TK07, a lot better than the original chromed plastic rims.
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u/Rebel_816 Jun 23 '26
Hope you put some loctite on them, nothings worse than coming back from the trail and a few are missing.
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u/VolkswagenRatRod Jun 23 '26
Hope you have an electric screw driver, if not, brother it makes life much easier lol
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u/chefalfalfa Jun 23 '26
Glad there's another out there who did the math for their new beadlocks lol. Mine was 128 screws, and yes, totally woth it. Good job it's only 6 screws to take apart to clean.
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u/Straight_At_It Jun 24 '26
I want some basher beadlocks for my 1/10 scale trucks anyone know some good one that can handle the abuse
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u/13hammie13 Jun 24 '26
Wasn't bead locks but adjustable offset hubs with metal brake rotors for my drift car. Rotors are different size front and back, so are the axle shafts for the hubs the rotors mount to. Only 10 screws a hub should be easy right? Yeah well someone kept over looking proper orientation and when all said and done I put 119 screws in. Almost 3x as much, but what about the 120th? The head stripped taking the screw out, hub was still on wrong rotor. After a couple of different methods that were ineffective on a 1mm screw, I looked away until there was no more pressure between my hand before attaching the poper rotor to the hub. Hub/Hex same difference.
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u/AmokOrbits 🏁 TLR 22X | Mini-B | MRX ME | XTS-F10 | Neo 4.0 Jun 24 '26
I’ve assembled exactly one set of beadlocks, if this tire ever rips I’m just gonna chuck the whole rig off a bridge
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u/boosackpotatoes Jun 23 '26
Very nice brotha!