Jeepial
I wanna be Dave
I myself have been siping tires for awhile now to increase the performace of tires in most conditions.It is a simple and very effective upgrade so to speak.I have looked and have not found many threads to be of help when it comes to performing siping on your own,so I decided to do a How To thread for anyone interested in siping your own tires.I have found a simple method that works very well.
You will need some tools for this..Main one being a Dremel.You will also need the reinforced cut off dremel blades.My set up is pictured below.
Now,one thing you might do is get all you tires together,now you can look at them and get a game plan down on where you want your sipes.You can go through and mark each tire with a Sharpie that way you can get uniform results on each tire. My Rovers already had lines in them so I skipped this step.
The more I siped tires I began to develope a method of doing it which makes the task very easy with the right tools.
When you have a tire in front of you,it should be facing like pictured below.
Also you will want to sqeeze the lug your are siping,like shown below.Just try and position the lug where when you bend it you will be cutting the sipe in the middle of the bend.Helps let the cut open up.
Now when you start to cut into the tire move very slowly into the lug and you will see the cut start to pull a pealing back kinda movement and open up,You cut into the lug until you reach the carcass..This is very helpful trick to help you not cut too deep into the tire.Another big thing..TAKE YOUR TIME!! Do not rush,your fingers are important.
Here is what it looks like after the cut.You can see how the cut in lug opened up and You can also see how to kinda guage how deep to cut to get to the carcass without going too far.
Then just repeat these steps on each cut.In the end you will end up with uniformly siped tires.These little trick also make the task very easy and a easily achievable goal.
Hope this little write up helps out all the do it yourself er's out there.."thumbsup"
You will need some tools for this..Main one being a Dremel.You will also need the reinforced cut off dremel blades.My set up is pictured below.
Now,one thing you might do is get all you tires together,now you can look at them and get a game plan down on where you want your sipes.You can go through and mark each tire with a Sharpie that way you can get uniform results on each tire. My Rovers already had lines in them so I skipped this step.
The more I siped tires I began to develope a method of doing it which makes the task very easy with the right tools.
When you have a tire in front of you,it should be facing like pictured below.
Also you will want to sqeeze the lug your are siping,like shown below.Just try and position the lug where when you bend it you will be cutting the sipe in the middle of the bend.Helps let the cut open up.
Now when you start to cut into the tire move very slowly into the lug and you will see the cut start to pull a pealing back kinda movement and open up,You cut into the lug until you reach the carcass..This is very helpful trick to help you not cut too deep into the tire.Another big thing..TAKE YOUR TIME!! Do not rush,your fingers are important.
Here is what it looks like after the cut.You can see how the cut in lug opened up and You can also see how to kinda guage how deep to cut to get to the carcass without going too far.
Then just repeat these steps on each cut.In the end you will end up with uniformly siped tires.These little trick also make the task very easy and a easily achievable goal.
Hope this little write up helps out all the do it yourself er's out there.."thumbsup"
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