by CaboWabo

Now that we have all our rim backings mounted and in place, the rest is a cake walk. First, if we’re going to paint our hubs, keep them intact and in place on their holders – they’re easier to paint this way. Once we’re ready to mount, clip the hubs and rotors out of their holders. Bend the brake caliper over so we have just a round rotor with a caliper over it, put a few dabs on the inside edge on the back of the rotor and mount it to the rim backing, do this on all four rims. Grab our rim rings and do the same, put a few dabs of glue on them back side of the ring and mount them to all four rim backings. Now grab the hubs, and again do the same thing, put a few dabs of glue on the outer edge of the hub and push them in to place inside the rim – use the end of a pencil with an un-used eraser end to push and hold them in place while they dry.

We’re done, all we need to do now is put the tires on rims and give it a test. We may notice some of our tires are much too big, we have two more options at this point. We can choose to try and shave down the tires that came with the alloy rims, or we can choose to try and use a tire from a set of Pullbacks (as shown here). I choose to do a combination of both. I shaved down my tires for the front set, and used rear pullback tires for my rear alloy rims – seems to be a perfect combination for how I like to drive. I should also mention that my rims are 10.0 mm rims, so the rear pullback tires fit perfectly, smaller alloy rims may have some ill fitting issues – I’m not certain.

Now lets go bling our sled and floss it’s new shoes homie!

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