TIRES, Make your own Wide White Walls

[Bugman]

It's commonly known that you can use a grinder to make your own Wide White Wall tires. I've been doing it for years. Heck, there's even a How To in the Tech-o-Matic. I try to describe the process to people, but am often met with blank stares and "you're pulling my leg" looks. Still pictures just don't really convey just how easy it is to do.

So, last time I made a set, I filmed it. Here it is, explained step by step, shown for the very first time with moving pictures and Monophonic sound, How to make your own Wide White Walls:
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For anyone on dial up, here's a much smaller(and lower quality) version of the same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9d57F_8vDc

[McFly]

Too cool! Great job!

[wrenchbender54]

Jeff,
Great Post. Where can I find those grinding discs with the holes in them?

[TriFiveChevyJohn]

Thanks for postin'!
I've been grindin' whites for a while and have found that the Kumho model #795 tires work great. They have a nice crisp outer edge.

One day, I will make/buy me one of these machines.:D

[blasted]

Thanks for sharing with us.

[Tito]

Awesome Tech!
Tito

[bigjoe1015]

If this doesn't win for tech week, then the competition is rigged! Video is SO much better than raw pictures!

Too F**king coo!!!!!

[mojo273]

great video!! Thanks

[Johnny1290]

Hey Jeff that was bad to the bone! Very professionally done! Thanks for all your hard work!

[Matt Franklin]

Nicely done!

[Oilcan Harry]

A hands down tech week winner. Something almost anyone here could use

[screwtheman]

This is my vote for winner.

Now this is what YouTube Thursday and HAMB TV should be all about!!! It's hard enough to remember to take pictures while you're building. So taking the time to actually present on video and edit it, is really impressive.

I ground out my skinny whites and they look good from 10ft. The passenger side looks good from 5ft since I learned my lessons on the driver's side!! If I would've seen this prior, they'd all look good from 3 ft. :cool:

BTW, some white plasti-dip or fusion paint will clean up any little burn throughs you may have.

[Skate Fink]

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!

[Mad-Lad]

WOW! Great post!

[hamz52]

Great tech piece. Any particular brand that gives the widest whitewall that you know of?

[Spedley]

Very cool, great tech.

This interweb, amazes me everyday!!

VIVA LA HAMB!!!!!!!!!

[Zumo]

Awesome. Thanks.

[wingnutz]

You can take the Kid away from school teaching... but you can't take the school teaching away from the kid...!

If I had you're super powers of high speed work... I'd have my roadster done in a day..!!!

Great job Jeff...!!!

[AHotRod]

That was very interesting and well done. THANKS Jeff!

[SquashThatFly]

i think im gonna go work some magic on some tires right now

[Roothawg]

I like the video aspect.

[Cliffy]

Good job Tanko. Knowbody would know your a shop teacher by your professional instruction :)

[haring]

Great video.

You have a keen and easy-going way of explaining things. Good instruction.

And I enjoyed the sped-up portions. I imagined the Benny Hill "Yakety Sax" music over these parts. I'm easily entertained that way.

[LaGrasta]

yup, good post. thanks, man.

[mercury Bill]

Nice post, those discs seem to make a huge diffrence over the solid ones.

[graverobber63]

That was one of the best tech posts I've ever seen! great post man!!

[buzz bomb]

That was great , and really well explained as well . Thank,s so much;)
Buzz Bomb

[Animal]

Very well done! I'm not a wide-white kinda guy (I run blackwalls on everything), but I still want to try that. What is the brand name on the see-thru disks? Those definitely would be cool for many applications. Thanks for the fine effort! A great tech week post.:D

[TINGLER]

Is your real name Jeff Tanko?

Tanko is a killer last name.




Thats a GREAT video by the way.

Very cool.

[Vance]

This is the tech week winner IMHO and here's why I think so:

The tools used EVERYONE has, (or should).
Little background knowledge needed to understand the method.
There's been a TON of talk regarding how to do this, so not only is this a great subject, it's pretty darn timely.
Well executed video. Seeing it done in action trumps still photos which trumps no photos. I don't care how well you think something is described.
And most importantly, ANYONE can do this, now that we've seen it done.

Vance

[tokyo]

That was awesome..full of enthusiasm. now..tell me how to make a dildo with the same process...HAHA


tok

[Mart]

Jeez you made it look a lot easier than when I tried it.
Great work, excellent video production. Thanks for a very informative post.
Mart.

[fivespoke]

Great tech, Been wantin to give it a go. Thanks for the encouragement.

[Shiftymutt]

Awesome....looks so easy in the video.

[skawars1]

Great Post. I think I know what I'm doing this weekend.

[lindross]

That's too cool! I've always heard that can be done, but never saw it in action before.

[Baron Von Mike]

Gotta say, video certainly raises the bar. Now I just need to be fast like Superman and I can grind my own whitewalls.

[Flathead Youngin']

and it's on the cheap...

great job!!! video is very cool for tech.....reading something is NOT the same as watching something....

This is the tech week winner IMHO and here's why I think so:

The tools used EVERYONE has, (or should).
Little background knowledge needed to understand the method.
There's been a TON of talk regarding how to do this, so not only is this a great subject, it's pretty darn timely.
Well executed video. Seeing it done in action trumps still photos which trumps no photos. I don't care how well you think something is described.
And most importantly, ANYONE can do this, now that we've seen it done.

Vance

[chopped top]

Thank you for taking the time to enlighten us all. Mark

[skyrodder]

Thanks !

[Hotrob]

Yea I gotta say so far this gets my vote!

Hotrob

[8mpg]

awesome!!!

[Bazooka]

Great tech. Thanks alot. I might have to give this a try...... Best Tech so far

[ford.slaughter]

Killer Post.

[KKustoms]

That Rocks!! I have been wanting to try it for a while, now I have to!!

[av8]

Excellent, Jeff! Thanks for sharing.

Mike

[Bugman]

Thanks for all the kind words. I really didn't expect this big a response. I didn't really think about it before you guys mentioned it, but you're right, this is my teacher side starting to show through once again.

About my grinding discs, I got them from the now defunct Machine Shop Supply that was a subsidiary of Lab Safety. I got a bunch through school when MSS went under. I think they are now sold by Rotozip, but I'm not 100% sure. Either way, a flexable disk without a backing pad works tons better than a stone disc does.

I haven't really noticed a width/brand pattern yet. It's pretty inconsistant. I believe a RWL will be wider than a narrow WW, but again it varys. Even within the brands, different style tires are wider than others. I did notice however that Coopers seem to have the smoothest outer edge. The last set of Goodyears I did were pretty wavy. Since I'm perpetually on a budget, I always use new used junk yard take off tires. They range from $10-$15 a tire around here.

Haring, I was very very close to putting the Benny Hill music in the background. It's hard to use speeded up footage without it(course I didn't speed anything up, I really am just that good...:D )

Tingler, yes, my real name really is Jeff Tanko

Tok, you need to start with a thicker chunk of rubber...

[zealot9802]

Awesome.

[rebarsfords]

Dude, that is awsome! Thanks for sharin the vid. I had heard that was
possible, but I didn't know all white walls were like that.
Cool-a-mundo!!!

[BigBlockMopar]

Real good video!

I might add from experience that General XP2000 RWL-tires are unsuitable for grinding a white wall on them.
The outer line is very irregular and I also noticed a 'starting line' in the white parts.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/BigBlockMopar/TireGrinding/AUT17051.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/BigBlockMopar/TireGrinding/AUT17055.jpg

[270283]

Much appreciated post. Thanks.

[Jeff Norwell]

Well done Jeff!!!!!

[mackster]

I am amazed at your skills, thanks bugman, I hope others follow your example and show us other neat tricks!

[Dirk35]

A+ Tech!!!

Well done Video too! Kudos bro!

[4t64rd]

I am amazed at your skills, thanks bugman, I hope others follow your example and show us other neat tricks!

Dunlop Rover ATs work pretty good, The only thing I did different was I left them on the wheel. It made the sidewall more stable and I felt, less likely to gouge the white.

[Gator]

Fantastic, I can't wait to grind up a couple of scrub tires for practice.

Thanks!

[Rocky]

Cool, Jeff...I'm gonna tackle the skinny whites on my Rambler, now that I know the trick.
Hey, you oughta be a teacher! Bahahahah...

[Chopped50Ford]

great post!!

[sodbuster]

Very cool tech........I can smell the burnt rubber......I also thought of Benny Hill chasing the front sump shaking gals around when you sped up the video.

Chris Nelson
Kansas

[Bugman]

4t64rd, I've tried it both mounted and unmounted. I found that with the tire unmounted it was easier to get down near the bead, but like you said, the sidewall was softer and gouges easier. I still prefer unmounted though, but it's just my personal preferance.

Another tip I didn't mention, try to keep the grinder as flat as you can. The steeper the angle, the easier it is to gouge the WW.

[40oz.]

ive been grinding white walls for years! on the curb out side trying to get as close to the yard as i can. it turned a full set of thin whites into 3' whites. but i thought it was bad unsafe. thanks for the truly helpful post. i will grind some white walls this week. this is the winning tech post.

[skyrodder]

I did it, today I made the thin whitewalls into 1 3/4 inch whitewalls... Easy!!!!

[Hotrodderman]

Jeff, That was great tech! Love the video. I never really thought about it until I watched your video. Then I remember a girlfriend I once had that drove an old Torino with white letter tires and the pass side was always scraped into a 3" wide white. I used to get pissed and I ended up painting them flat black. Rods and Customs should have wide whites not Torinos! LOL

Great tech Thanks alot

Hotrodderman

[RATCAMINO]

thanks for thvideo man i hae read alot about this but was always skeptical thaks jake