Wheel Weights!

[Steve]

OK, I geared my Monster down enough so it will now pull a cat, it's a hill climbing, rock crawling, baby waking truck at that. It's not fast, doesn't steer well, in fact it's really slow and loud...all that a truck should be. Problem is she flips over backwards when negotiating steep climbs, hence the wheely bar craze. However, a wheely bar on a monster truck, especially a rock crawling monster, is just not acceptable, as I'm sure many of you truck guys will agree.

so, BEHOLD the Steve Wheel Weight! In an attempt to get as much weight as close to the ground as possible, I filled a wheel with molten solder, and after pulling the warped, cracked, unusuable wheel off the hardened solder core, Whallah! I had an 8g lead donut, which fit very nicely into another wheel. The downside is it requires a wheel per mold.

Now I'm sure one of you brainiacs out there will figure out a way to do this without sacrificing a wheel. Some thoughts I had (after the sacrifice):

Clay instead of solder. Not tried.
Coiling cold solder inside the wheel well. Works, just not as heavy
Using something else for a mold.

In summary, it works..oh yes, it works. Hills that were previously unclimbable have been scaled, and it makes the truck heavy as hell, which just adds to it's truckness. Have to mention that with some dremmel work, the weights would be removeable as well. AND you can polish them to a mirror shine for a cool inner wheel effect. It's also important to note that you will require 4 wheel weights if you plan to go down steep hills, or she'll just go head over tea kettle the other way, or I suppose you could back down, but that phrase is just not in the truckster vocabulary.

Pics should follow shortly, but man, it's just a lead donut.