rehabbing race tires

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rehabbing race tires

Postby blacksheep-1 » Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:03 pm

For those of you scoring at home, this is how it's done...

Locate your traction enhancer, solution voodoo milk, panther pee or goat whiz..whatever you prefer, gather a paint roller, heat gun, scraper, wrap (or plastic bags) some tape and an old rag (not the one you drive)..

start by heating up the surface of the tire and scraping away all the old "pickup" this will allow the traction enhancer to penetrate into the tire and not into the "pickup" on the surface..

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and a before and after shot of 2 tires before and after scraping..

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then pour out the traction crud and roll onto the tire..

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after the tire is saturated then use and old rag to "burnish" the solution into the tire

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after that wrap the tire in the plastic wrap or put it in a large garbage bag and seal it up. The idea is to let the tire traction solution cure into the tire

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and voila! a set of tires to be kept in a cool dry spot until needed. don't worry if the wrap "melts" into the tire, it's not a problem and once the tires are mounted then you can roll on one last coat of traction enhancer.

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