Tuning Ring foam install help

[crawlercon]

This is my first try with multi piece foams and having to glue the tire on the rim. Only 1 piece foams and bead lock wheels before.

I just got a new set of tires/foams/wheels yesterday and started trying to install the 4 piece foams from Crawler innovations and ran into trouble with the tuning rings when I went to put things together.

Comp cut inner closed cell, soft outer open cell, tuning rings and tuning discs.

I'm trying a few different things here. Soft red Voodoo pins and Crawler innovations 1.5 wheels. The tires are so soft I want to run 1 tuning disc on the inner side of each. The tires are big and square and the wheels are wide so I don't think I need to trim the edges off of the foams or cut them narrower, but when I tried to install the tuning rings they get bunched up inside the tire and won't lay down. Do they need to be glued to the outer foam first? If so how do you go about that and with what glue?

I had the thought to cut the tuning ring and take out a section to decrease diameter so it fit into the tire right, install a tuning disc, then install the outer foam, then the inner. But I don't know if that's a good idea and could cause issues with the tuning ring bunching up, so I thought I'd ask for advice and technique first.

 

[Inspector86]

First, Welcome to RCC.
How tall are your tires? To be honest, I pretty much use CI foams exclusively in my tires but I have never used the tuning rings. I don't think gluing the foam would be wise. Basically, you just have to knead the tires until you work the foam into place and the tuning rings will make that much more difficult.