Big tip on squeaky trucks, it's 90% the pivot of your trucks and your pivot cup. Just last night I decided to fix the squeaky trucks using chapstick. First I just applied it to the pivot and the pivot cup and that eliminated most of the squeak, but once I gave some to everywhere else, it's basically gone.
This is a very short term fix, in my experience this will just hold on to dirt and stuff and pretty much be gone within a a day or two in my experience. Some wax will last longer (I think I have had it last about a week). But hey maybe that doesn't match your experience.
i want you all to know this is normal. ive been through maybe 6-7 boards with the same trucks. trucks usually last years on years. as long as they're indies tho lmao
1:08 yeah i had some decade old team chris cole thunders i got from a friend because i needed some 145s and he doesn't use em anymore, and i put those hangers on my hollow lights 147s baseplate. also one time i had to put indy stage 10 hangers on a tensor mag baseplate, had to put taller bottom bushing shorter top bushing but oddly it fit perfectly.
Dawn works great in pivot cups of squeaky trucks. just put a drop on your finger a shove you finger in the pivot cup and rub it around a bit. I did it a month ago on my aces and they are smoother and quieter than ever!
I feel like this is for sure one of the parts of the board you can go the most lax on, especially if you mainly just do fliptricks, but its still really important to keep them in check.
ha I typed this up two days ago hoping to see one of ur videos, and then this got recommended to me today. thx! btw I've been skating mine for about a year
Grand video! found a discarded broken skateboard in the bushes across the road from my house and it was just really the deck (broken in half) that needed replaced but had some squeaks when i rode it. Figured out from this video one of the pivot cups was split! Easy fix and I literally have a brand new skateboard for (almost) free :)
It's be great to see what "Frankentruck" combinations work and which don't. I've got spare Thunder 7.75" hangars lying around, and a pair of 8" Tensors that I'd be interested in combining to be able to skate a skinnier deck, and I'd be interested in seeing how they'd turn compared to stock.
I don't think I have a big enough pile of old trucks to try all of the combinations! I'm sure most would fit together, but the turning might feel wonky if the angle of the pivot doesn't match the angle of the pivot cup. If you give it a try let us know how well it worked! Cheers! - Tim
I use a very small amount of lithium grease in my pivot cups. I keep a solution of fragrance/dye free bar soap dissolved in water in a eye dropper type bottle with my board at all times (kept adding water a little at a time until the soap fully dissolved). Lots of dust in the desert, soapy water dries up and flakes out, all the dirt and dust falls away eliminating squeaking and prolonging component life. I soap daily, sometimes twice, only takes a single drop for bushings and for pivot cup. I clean pivot cups with q-tips and reapply lithium grease about once a month. The tip nobody mentions is: Your bearings will not insert and stay flush within the wheel hub while dry. Grease up your wheel hub before inserting your bearings (combined with spacers this is the best tip for speed). Longboarders have the best skate advice when it comes to maintenance considering they rarely have sponsorship and actually care about top end performance. Board stompers are talented with tricks, however seem to be dogmatic and proud of ignorance, two less then respectable qualities I think. I ride pools and bomb hills with 9" ace af1 trucks and a 15.25" wheel base. Via custom bushing (all four are different durometers) my setup will carve on a dime and hill bomb without speed wobbles. Everyone who steps on my board loves it, even the tight truck types acknowledge the balance of responsiveness and stability. Look to long distance pump, slalom and downhill skateboarders for the best advice on bushings, bearings and maintenance tips.
The only reason I got new trucks is because I didn’t realize my first ones were too small, so I got new ones that actually fit my board correctly. Other than that, I have had the same ones
Ahaha Frankenstein Trucks, when I was a kid I use to have the bottom part thunders and the grind part were some royals that a friend gave me. Now I just have indies reg.
If you have a hard time with your trucks not turning good when you first get them no matter how much you loosen them then wax your brand new bushings. The wax keeps your bushings slippery against the washers and hanger and temporarily makes your bushings feel broken in until they actually fully break in.
Unfortunately we and many other online retailers are sold out at the moment. There's a nation-wide skate hard goods shortage because of Covid-19 and it's been hard for skateshops all over to restock. There might be one at your local shop, someone's gotta have one out there! What brand were you looking for? - Tim
I thought of an idea that could help stop base plate holes from getting bigger. Have a 45 degree or similar tapered nut and have the same taper in the base plate holes. This could possibly make the base plates last longer. Vehicle's have this design in the wheels. But the only thing is that you would have to have the right nut with the base plate other ways it will not work well and I know many skateboarders would not be happy about the compatibility issues this would cause.
Hey Tactics, I own a truck size for a 7.75 and I’m considering moving up a deck size to an 8. Will there be any differences? Let me know what you guys think
The 7.75 trucks will definitely work on an 8.0 deck. Some tricks will feel a little different because the pressure points will be in a different spot, but it'll only take you about one session to get used to it and you won't even notice it anymore. 👍 Cheers! - Tim
I often pair up 7.75 trucks on 8.00 decks with different wheel combos, you'll most likely never notice the difference. It is less than 1/8" split variance per side when mounted per side.
I still have the trucks that came with my complete, at this point I’ve switched out basically everything except the trucks. I want new ones because these ones have no clearance, so now that I’m trying to learn to grind I’m grinding straight onto the kingpin nut (I don’t know if that’s what it’s called). But I can’t afford new trucks rn so I’ll have to wait.
Hey. I got an old board and trying to restore it. I realise that the nipple sitting in the pivot cup is worn out by 30%. The diameter is not only smaller, it is not round anymore. Is this even possible when there is a rubber pivot cup in place?
Use a mini sledge to get them kingpins out! If not your gonna have to channel your inner Thor 🤣! Thunders Hollow Lights 2s I bought looked like they had glue or loctite on it helping build the kingpin in?
"Channel your inner Thor" 😂🔨 Yeah, sometimes it's a pain to get that kingpin out! I've never seen loctite on them, but those splines make it much harder to get the kingpin out that it was 10 years ago when they didn't have them. 😄✌ - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop it wasn't red or blue it was clear / yellow. I instantly thought of super glue. I've never seen that before. Most of the time I can knock them out no problem but this time it was a FIGHT. I swap the original Kingpins for Krux dlks for more clearance. They fit alot of trucks as long a the baseplate is flat where the two meet. If the baseplate has a cylindrical canal it won't work. An old bowl skater gave me the idea when I watched his video on swapping kingpins for the old Grind King inverted kingpins.
@@alonsoundesign Since Bullet is more of a price point brand, their not going to be as strong as the major brands like Independent, Thunder, Ace, etc. But they are a decent truck that will serve you well as long as you're not skating in extreme situations. 👍 Cheers! - Tim
I already had a skate tool and didn’t want to go get a new one with a rethreader cause my nuts wouldn’t go back on so I went to ace hardware got a 5/16 24 count rethreader and rethreader holder and some 5/16 24 count locking nuts
i have a brand new skateboard but idk why my sk8board is always turn right . i always mess up by dis problems . i take of my trucks and everything is normal , pls give me tip how to fix it without buying anything😔😔
If the board is brand new, bushings have a tendency to get stuck until they are broken in. Most likely the issue will resolve itself as you skate the board more. If it doesn't however, you could try rotating your bushings 90 degrees so that the sides that compresses the most are facing the outsides. I hope that helps! - Tim
Hi, i have a problem with my axel, the part circular which holds the kingpin broke, and now i am wondering if i should replace it, or i can still skate with it?
@@tacticsboardshop Sorry for the late reply, the bushing and kingpin were still being held by the remaining of the circular part, and I was able to skate a little longer with it, but in the end I learned to drop on a curb, which was around 50 cm high, and the rest of the circular part broke, and when tried to push myself, the skate would turn on the right side because most of the circular part was gone, and the kingpin slipped out. So I bought new trucks.
How to fix the broken baseplate, but my baseplate isn't too broke, just a lot of pieces near the pivot area, and that's very disturbing to take control the board,
Do I need new wheels? For some of em the bearings just slip right out. You don’t have to pry em with the trucks. They just fall out. I don’t think that’s normal. Help pls
Are the wheels super old? There's not much you can do for a wheel if the bearing slot is all stretched out. 😕As long as it doesn't affect your skating and rides fine, you should be able to just skate the wheels anyway. But if they're causing your bearings to bust or make your wheels to fall off, then you should probably get some new wheels. Stay safe out there! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop alright thanks for your help :) the wheels aren’t super old. It’s my first board and I bought a complete. The bearings that were included were really hard to pry out. Really really hard. And when I was prying em out, I dented the metal bearing shields and they don’t spin anymore. I replaced the bearings to reds. Most of the reds go in and out of the wheel like normal wheels but I think 2 of them just slip out. I can still ride it it’s just really really bumpy. Skating rough pavement is a big no for me cuz it feels like an earthquake in my legs.
Does it matter if u have bad skateboard hardware cuz when I first brought my skateboard I decided to use wallmart skateboard hardware so I can save some money and my skateboard is really bad wheels are really slow and skateboard is uneven so m tryna figure the problem
Trucks are identical when they are new, so if you want to be able to differentiate between them, you can put a mark on them or something like that. I usually just know which truck is my front/back from the grind marks on them. Often I'll have a pretty defined groove from doing crooked grinds, so I can always tell which one is the front. But if they're new, then it doesn't matter which one you put on the front/back. Cheers! - Tim
I’m trying to get my truck top part with the axel off the baseplate but the kingpin nut is kind of inside the top busing and I can’t take the top part off because it’s stuck in the bushing it happened because I took the protecter cap off and now the nut won’t come off
You're going to need to use a different tool to loosen that sucker. Try using a visegrip to get a solid hold of the kingpin nut. Worst case scenario is you'll have to cut off pieces of your top bushing so you can get to the nut and then just replace the top bushing. I hope that helps! - Tim
My trucks pop when I lean, and I tried just Greasing them up I little bit and loosening the king pen a bit and it didn’t work. Do you have any tips on how to fix that?
You don't necessarily need them, but they definitely help keep you speed a little better. If you're wanting some, you could go to your local skate shop and they'll probably just give you some for free. Or ask other skaters if they have any extra ones in a box of old parts. Or in the worst case scenario, you could just get some small thin washers from a hardware store. I hope you can track some down! - Tim
It depends on how tight your trucks are. If you have pretty tight trucks, then you could probably get away with not using risers with 56mm wheels. But if you ride loose trucks, then you should definitely use some risers to save you from getting wheelbite so much. Cheers! - Tim
Well, you only need one truck, but most of the time trucks are sold in pairs. You might need to do a little research to find a place that sells just one truck.
How long pivot cup can be use? Because i can see my pivot cup move (about 1cm) up down the pivot, i just realized it because there's annoying sound like pivot hitting my board, i'm afraid if there's a hole on the base plate because my pivot cup have been worn out :(
Yeah you definitely need a new pivot cup. The same thing happened to me a few years ago and the baseplate started cracking from the pivot smacking the metal under the pivot cup. I hope you can fix it up soon! - Tim
@@brianbahtiar It depends on how badly cracked it is. If there's a tiny micro crack in the baseplate, then you'll probably be ok for a bit, but if it starts spreading across the whole baseplate then you'll have to replace it. Maybe someone you know has some used trucks of the same brand that still have a good baseplate you could harvest? - Tim
I have a problem with my skateboard and it’s probably because I built it and the problem is that on one truck one wheel touches the ground and the other one doesn’t and the same thing with my other truck and it’s not the bushings because their brand new so idk what to do if u have the answer pls let me know 😢
Have you checked to see if the deck is warped? Sometimes skateboard decks aren't perfectly straight and kind of twist very slightly and can make your board wobble like a stool with uneven legs. Look down the deck lengthwise and try to see if the deck slightly corkscrews. If it's slightly warped it wont affect your skating too much, but if it's really warped, it'll make everything feel a little off. If it's warped you should be able to return or exchange it because it's defective. Take care! - Tim
What kind of tool are you using? There's been situations where a normal skate tool or a wrench won't work and I have to use a vice grip to clamp onto the nut and loosen it that way. Once you remove the kingpin nut, it might be worth trying to put a new one on there if the kingpin threads aren't completely thrashed.
Has the nut kinda buried itself in to the washer? Or is it just worn down from doing a lot of grinds? My suggestion would be to use a vice grip. Then you can really clamp down on that kingpin nut from any angle and start loosening it. I hope that helps! - Tim
Pivot cups hold the pivot in place and prevent it from wiggling around and chattering against your baseplate. It's important to have a functioning pivot cup if you don't want floppy unstable trucks. Usually pivot cups are made of hard urethane, just like your bushings. I've never seen foam pivot cups.🤔 If your pivot cup rips in half and is negatively affecting your skating, then you should replace it. Cheers! - Tim
Why is it so hard to find replace baseplates for independent trucks? My hardware holes are stretched out too much. Also, I feel like you should have gone over how to prevent this because it can be pretty annoying when your skateboard keeps turning by itself due to this problem.
Tighten your hardware every session this is the determining factor for me and my thunders which are very prone to baseplate stretching prior to me tightening them and checking them all the time I got about a year before they got stretched. I’m current on my second + year on standard thunders and they are only still pretty good. I even had to buy the thunder rebuild kit to get new bushing which is a first for me, I usually just ride trucks till they are stretched and then move on one loose hardware actually makes a difference I dunno how kids purposely and willingly skate with 3 bolts I just retighten every nutt every session and if I’m doing a lot of tailslides or noseslides I’ll even check the mid session sometimes
A couple decent budget truck brands are: Tensor, MiniLogo, and Bullet trucks. Here's a link to some trucks under $35. I hope you find something you like. Cheers! - Tim www.tactics.com/trucks/rp-0-35
Why does my nuts axle nuts keep tightening up? Or my wheel stop wobbling causing me to crash almost immediately.. I have to smack my wheel on the ground to fix it every 5 steps
Are the axle nuts tightening or is the axle shifting side to side inside the hangar? If the axle is slipping, it will pinch one of the wheels while the other get's more wiggle room. If that's the problem, then it's probably better to get new trucks. If it's just the axle nut tightening from the vibrations, then you could get some new axle nuts with the fresh nylon on them. I hope that helps! - Tim
If you have more questions, check out our full truck maintenance guide here. 🤝❤
www.tactics.com/info/how-to-maintain-skateboard-trucks
Big tip on squeaky trucks, it's 90% the pivot of your trucks and your pivot cup. Just last night I decided to fix the squeaky trucks using chapstick. First I just applied it to the pivot and the pivot cup and that eliminated most of the squeak, but once I gave some to everywhere else, it's basically gone.
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yeah it’s always the pivot cups for me
This is a very short term fix, in my experience this will just hold on to dirt and stuff and pretty much be gone within a a day or two in my experience. Some wax will last longer (I think I have had it last about a week). But hey maybe that doesn't match your experience.
Or tight/broken bushings
or just sprinkle or put a little piece of wax in it and it the sound is gone
Thanks for that bushing tip, now it’s quieter than ever
I'm still on my first pair 😅
Same hahahahaha
How long have u been skating
same i’ve been on the same ones for a year and i got pilot ones
I don't ever wanna change mine even though I'm almost almost at the axel on my thunders.
I might just get indys soon
i want you all to know this is normal. ive been through maybe 6-7 boards with the same trucks. trucks usually last years on years. as long as they're indies tho lmao
How could anyone dislike Theese videos they're short but still manage to tell you just about everything you need to know on skateboarding
Agree. The video isn’t stretched out to 10 mins for ad rev. No repeated information.
Yeah like these videos are amazing
Probably dislikes from kids/teens who love garbage TikTok "hack" videos instead of knowledgeable people putting out quality information. Smh.
Kooks did it
some men just want to watch the world burn
Loving these these videos been skating for 2 Years now and still learning new things
1:08 yeah i had some decade old team chris cole thunders i got from a friend because i needed some 145s and he doesn't use em anymore, and i put those hangers on my hollow lights 147s baseplate. also one time i had to put indy stage 10 hangers on a tensor mag baseplate, had to put taller bottom bushing shorter top bushing but oddly it fit perfectly.
Nice! Always love a good Franken-truck! 🛹🧟♂️ 😄
Dawn works great in pivot cups of squeaky trucks. just put a drop on your finger a shove you finger in the pivot cup and rub it around a bit. I did it a month ago on my aces and they are smoother and quieter than ever!
wait whats dawn??
@@ryanlee9150 soap
I feel like this is for sure one of the parts of the board you can go the most lax on, especially if you mainly just do fliptricks, but its still really important to keep them in check.
These videos are very calming for me haha. i love the way theyre edited and filmed
Wassup tactics!! Hope y’all have. A great day! ☮️
I’ve been skating for a year but I still enjoy these videos lol
ha I typed this up two days ago hoping to see one of ur videos, and then this got recommended to me today. thx! btw I've been skating mine for about a year
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Grand video! found a discarded broken skateboard in the bushes across the road from my house and it was just really the deck (broken in half) that needed replaced but had some squeaks when i rode it. Figured out from this video one of the pivot cups was split! Easy fix and I literally have a brand new skateboard for (almost) free :)
Hell yeah bro! I remember I dug my first skateboard out the trash lol
I usually put a sticker under the baseplate of the trucks on my board so my trucks don't squeak at all and it definitely works for sure.
It's be great to see what "Frankentruck" combinations work and which don't.
I've got spare Thunder 7.75" hangars lying around, and a pair of 8" Tensors that I'd be interested in combining to be able to skate a skinnier deck, and I'd be interested in seeing how they'd turn compared to stock.
I don't think I have a big enough pile of old trucks to try all of the combinations! I'm sure most would fit together, but the turning might feel wonky if the angle of the pivot doesn't match the angle of the pivot cup. If you give it a try let us know how well it worked! Cheers! - Tim
3:47 you can also do it with dishwasher, be careful not to add too much though!
best skate channel on TH-cam! 👍🏻
I use a very small amount of lithium grease in my pivot cups. I keep a solution of fragrance/dye free bar soap dissolved in water in a eye dropper type bottle with my board at all times (kept adding water a little at a time until the soap fully dissolved). Lots of dust in the desert, soapy water dries up and flakes out, all the dirt and dust falls away eliminating squeaking and prolonging component life.
I soap daily, sometimes twice, only takes a single drop for bushings and for pivot cup. I clean pivot cups with q-tips and reapply lithium grease about once a month.
The tip nobody mentions is: Your bearings will not insert and stay flush within the wheel hub while dry. Grease up your wheel hub before inserting your bearings (combined with spacers this is the best tip for speed). Longboarders have the best skate advice when it comes to maintenance considering they rarely have sponsorship and actually care about top end performance. Board stompers are talented with tricks, however seem to be dogmatic and proud of ignorance, two less then respectable qualities I think.
I ride pools and bomb hills with 9" ace af1 trucks and a 15.25" wheel base. Via custom bushing (all four are different durometers) my setup will carve on a dime and hill bomb without speed wobbles. Everyone who steps on my board loves it, even the tight truck types acknowledge the balance of responsiveness and stability.
Look to long distance pump, slalom and downhill skateboarders for the best advice on bushings, bearings and maintenance tips.
The only reason I got new trucks is because I didn’t realize my first ones were too small, so I got new ones that actually fit my board correctly. Other than that, I have had the same ones
Ahaha Frankenstein Trucks, when I was a kid I use to have the bottom part thunders and the grind part were some royals that a friend gave me. Now I just have indies reg.
Been skating the same trucks since '98, thinking about grabbing a new pair.
If you have a hard time with your trucks not turning good when you first get them no matter how much you loosen them then wax your brand new bushings. The wax keeps your bushings slippery against the washers and hanger and temporarily makes your bushings feel broken in until they actually fully break in.
This is a great video, although I do have one question; where can I order truck rebuild kits from online?
Unfortunately we and many other online retailers are sold out at the moment. There's a nation-wide skate hard goods shortage because of Covid-19 and it's been hard for skateshops all over to restock. There might be one at your local shop, someone's gotta have one out there! What brand were you looking for? - Tim
i need more videos like this. just with all the other skateboard parts haha
Cool idea to put wax on the bushings to stop squeak 🐁. Thanks for that!
Holy shit thank you so much for the squeaky truck tip, just built a new board and the squeak was subtle but annoying
2:51 what wheels are those, they look sick
I think those are some really worn down Bones STF V3 wheels. 🛹🤔 - Tim
I thought of an idea that could help stop base plate holes from getting bigger. Have a 45 degree or similar tapered nut and have the same taper in the base plate holes. This could possibly make the base plates last longer. Vehicle's have this design in the wheels. But the only thing is that you would have to have the right nut with the base plate other ways it will not work well and I know many skateboarders would not be happy about the compatibility issues this would cause.
I've had the same trucks for 4 years
Most needed tip
Please make a wheel review on the new OJ “Nomads” wheels
(Like this so they see it)
Instructions unclear, got arrested for assaulting a truck loaded with a shipment of skateboards
if you wax your pivot cups that can help a lot more with squeaking than waxing bushings
Will ace trucks AF1s 77 fit a 9.4 deck? Or would the 77s be too big? Thanks!
The ACE AF1 77 have a 9.5 inch axle, so they'll work great for a 9.4 deck. 👍 - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop awesome thanks 👍👍👍
That squeaking tip was great
additional tip, put wax into the pivot cup too
Hey Tactics, I own a truck size for a 7.75 and I’m considering moving up a deck size to an 8. Will there be any differences? Let me know what you guys think
The 7.75 trucks will definitely work on an 8.0 deck. Some tricks will feel a little different because the pressure points will be in a different spot, but it'll only take you about one session to get used to it and you won't even notice it anymore. 👍 Cheers! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop Good to know! Thank you so much!
I often pair up 7.75 trucks on 8.00 decks with different wheel combos, you'll most likely never notice the difference. It is less than 1/8" split variance per side when mounted per side.
Finally 🙏 thanks sir !!
When u should get a new skateboard deck ! That’s a good a idea make a video about it
When the old one snaps
Razortail
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Another way to eliminate the squeaky trucks is rubbing a little dawn dish soap on your finger and putting a light coat on the bushings and pivot cup.
Another on about squeaking, drop some wax pieces inside the pivot, that also fix some squeaking
I still have the trucks that came with my complete, at this point I’ve switched out basically everything except the trucks. I want new ones because these ones have no clearance, so now that I’m trying to learn to grind I’m grinding straight onto the kingpin nut (I don’t know if that’s what it’s called). But I can’t afford new trucks rn so I’ll have to wait.
Hey. I got an old board and trying to restore it. I realise that the nipple sitting in the pivot cup is worn out by 30%. The diameter is not only smaller, it is not round anymore. Is this even possible when there is a rubber pivot cup in place?
Thanks bro
Use a mini sledge to get them kingpins out! If not your gonna have to channel your inner Thor 🤣! Thunders Hollow Lights 2s I bought looked like they had glue or loctite on it helping build the kingpin in?
"Channel your inner Thor" 😂🔨 Yeah, sometimes it's a pain to get that kingpin out! I've never seen loctite on them, but those splines make it much harder to get the kingpin out that it was 10 years ago when they didn't have them. 😄✌ - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop it wasn't red or blue it was clear / yellow. I instantly thought of super glue. I've never seen that before. Most of the time I can knock them out no problem but this time it was a FIGHT. I swap the original Kingpins for Krux dlks for more clearance. They fit alot of trucks as long a the baseplate is flat where the two meet. If the baseplate has a cylindrical canal it won't work. An old bowl skater gave me the idea when I watched his video on swapping kingpins for the old Grind King inverted kingpins.
So I have a little bit of rust on my axle is that good or not and the trucks a fairly new
You're good! It's normal to have a tiny bit of dusty residual rust on the axle, even on brand new trucks. 👍
Interesting stuff!
How can we clean over grip tape 👉🏻🤔
Thank you sir
What kingpins would you recommend for venture v-hollow low trucks?
Kreper downlow kingpins
Would Indy hollows 149 fit on a 8.8 deck? I’ve seen two different charts; 1 chart says yes the other chart says barely. Thank you!
Nah, the 149 has an 8.5 inch axle and it's gonna feel too small. You should go for the Indy 159 trucks (8.75 axle) 👍
@@tacticsboardshop thanks!!!
0:52 bro pulled a George Poulos
trucks bullet works well with tricks of streets. grinds, gaps, etc etc?
Yes, Bullet trucks will work for whatever kind of skating you're wanting to do. 👍
@@tacticsboardshop durabillity?
@@alonsoundesign Since Bullet is more of a price point brand, their not going to be as strong as the major brands like Independent, Thunder, Ace, etc. But they are a decent truck that will serve you well as long as you're not skating in extreme situations. 👍 Cheers! - Tim
The bushing game
I’m no pro skater but I’ve skated the same trucks for 4-5 years
I already had a skate tool and didn’t want to go get a new one with a rethreader cause my nuts wouldn’t go back on so I went to ace hardware got a 5/16 24 count rethreader and rethreader holder and some 5/16 24 count locking nuts
I’ve never went through a pair of trucks. They’ve always either had the threads stripped and messed up beyond repair, or they’ve broken.
i have a brand new skateboard but idk why my sk8board is always turn right . i always mess up by dis problems . i take of my trucks and everything is normal , pls give me tip how to fix it without buying anything😔😔
If the board is brand new, bushings have a tendency to get stuck until they are broken in. Most likely the issue will resolve itself as you skate the board more. If it doesn't however, you could try rotating your bushings 90 degrees so that the sides that compresses the most are facing the outsides. I hope that helps! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop thx 4 useful tip 😊
Hi, i have a problem with my axel, the part circular which holds the kingpin broke, and now i am wondering if i should replace it, or i can still skate with it?
How broken is it? Are the bushings and the kingpin about to slip out of it at any moment, or is there just a small crack on it? - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop Sorry for the late reply, the bushing and kingpin were still being held by the remaining of the circular part, and I was able to skate a little longer with it, but in the end I learned to drop on a curb, which was around 50 cm high, and the rest of the circular part broke, and when tried to push myself, the skate would turn on the right side because most of the circular part was gone, and the kingpin slipped out. So I bought new trucks.
How to fix the broken baseplate, but my baseplate isn't too broke, just a lot of pieces near the pivot area, and that's very disturbing to take control the board,
145 thunder trucks do they it into 8 25?
Do I need new wheels? For some of em the bearings just slip right out. You don’t have to pry em with the trucks. They just fall out. I don’t think that’s normal. Help pls
Are the wheels super old? There's not much you can do for a wheel if the bearing slot is all stretched out. 😕As long as it doesn't affect your skating and rides fine, you should be able to just skate the wheels anyway. But if they're causing your bearings to bust or make your wheels to fall off, then you should probably get some new wheels. Stay safe out there! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop alright thanks for your help :) the wheels aren’t super old. It’s my first board and I bought a complete. The bearings that were included were really hard to pry out. Really really hard. And when I was prying em out, I dented the metal bearing shields and they don’t spin anymore. I replaced the bearings to reds. Most of the reds go in and out of the wheel like normal wheels but I think 2 of them just slip out. I can still ride it it’s just really really bumpy. Skating rough pavement is a big no for me cuz it feels like an earthquake in my legs.
@@thelambsaucee are the nuts on the axle quite loose??
One of my bushings are cracked but It still skates well and I don't get wheel bite
Yup, as long as they still skate the way you like them, then it's all good! 👍
I have a regular skateboard and I’m gonna put longboard wheels on it
Ill add one. Axle shift.
Does it matter if u have bad skateboard hardware cuz when I first brought my skateboard I decided to use wallmart skateboard hardware so I can save some money and my skateboard is really bad wheels are really slow and skateboard is uneven so m tryna figure the problem
been 2 years and I’ve still been on my same pair 💀
How do u measure the hardness of bushing because mine don’t say the hardness
I just got brand new trucks how I know the front and the back? Is there a difrence
Trucks are identical when they are new, so if you want to be able to differentiate between them, you can put a mark on them or something like that. I usually just know which truck is my front/back from the grind marks on them. Often I'll have a pretty defined groove from doing crooked grinds, so I can always tell which one is the front. But if they're new, then it doesn't matter which one you put on the front/back. Cheers! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop aight thanks dude
I’m trying to get my truck top part with the axel off the baseplate but the kingpin nut is kind of inside the top busing and I can’t take the top part off because it’s stuck in the bushing it happened because I took the protecter cap off and now the nut won’t come off
You're going to need to use a different tool to loosen that sucker. Try using a visegrip to get a solid hold of the kingpin nut. Worst case scenario is you'll have to cut off pieces of your top bushing so you can get to the nut and then just replace the top bushing. I hope that helps! - Tim
Ive heard if theyre squeaky you can put wax in the pivot cup, does that help at all?
Yep, that works too!
My trucks pop when I lean, and I tried just Greasing them up I little bit and loosening the king pen a bit and it didn’t work. Do you have any tips on how to fix that?
What do you mean they pop when you lean? Is it just a sound, or is there a physical jolting flop? - Tim
My trucks are uneven how do I fix?
Hey I was wondering what I should do if I lose my speed washers for my bearings?
You don't necessarily need them, but they definitely help keep you speed a little better. If you're wanting some, you could go to your local skate shop and they'll probably just give you some for free. Or ask other skaters if they have any extra ones in a box of old parts. Or in the worst case scenario, you could just get some small thin washers from a hardware store. I hope you can track some down! - Tim
Nice vid
How to use tool Y ,plz
If you have 7.87 board and you are buying the 8 board do you have to replace your trucks? Help please
The trucks that are on your 7.87 decks will fit fine on the 8.0 deck. 👍
@@tacticsboardshop thank you 😁
If I have a 56 mm wheel? Do you think I would really need risers? Could I ride it without getting too much wheelbite?
It depends on how tight your trucks are. If you have pretty tight trucks, then you could probably get away with not using risers with 56mm wheels. But if you ride loose trucks, then you should definitely use some risers to save you from getting wheelbite so much. Cheers! - Tim
I highkey like skating with crushed bushings
One of my trucks broke I have indys should I buy one truck or two trucks again?
The metal thing that goes into he pivot cup broke while I was doing flatground should I get 1 or two trucks
Well, you only need one truck, but most of the time trucks are sold in pairs. You might need to do a little research to find a place that sells just one truck.
How long pivot cup can be use? Because i can see my pivot cup move (about 1cm) up down the pivot, i just realized it because there's annoying sound like pivot hitting my board, i'm afraid if there's a hole on the base plate because my pivot cup have been worn out :(
Yeah you definitely need a new pivot cup. The same thing happened to me a few years ago and the baseplate started cracking from the pivot smacking the metal under the pivot cup. I hope you can fix it up soon! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop thanks tim, but can i still use that baseplate even if it's been cracked?
@@brianbahtiar It depends on how badly cracked it is. If there's a tiny micro crack in the baseplate, then you'll probably be ok for a bit, but if it starts spreading across the whole baseplate then you'll have to replace it. Maybe someone you know has some used trucks of the same brand that still have a good baseplate you could harvest? - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop ok thanks a lot tim 😉
My trucks are always luse but i don't do anything, i fix them and they lusen again.
when should I get a new deck?
I have a problem with my skateboard and it’s probably because I built it and the problem is that on one truck one wheel touches the ground and the other one doesn’t and the same thing with my other truck and it’s not the bushings because their brand new so idk what to do if u have the answer pls let me know 😢
Have you checked to see if the deck is warped? Sometimes skateboard decks aren't perfectly straight and kind of twist very slightly and can make your board wobble like a stool with uneven legs. Look down the deck lengthwise and try to see if the deck slightly corkscrews. If it's slightly warped it wont affect your skating too much, but if it's really warped, it'll make everything feel a little off. If it's warped you should be able to return or exchange it because it's defective. Take care! - Tim
buying vs making a board please??
Recommend you buy a fish gear box, and when you buy new parts put your old parts in the box, is a lifesaver when you need it
i have a problem with tightening them i cant tighten nor can i loosen them what should i do?
What kind of tool are you using? There's been situations where a normal skate tool or a wrench won't work and I have to use a vice grip to clamp onto the nut and loosen it that way. Once you remove the kingpin nut, it might be worth trying to put a new one on there if the kingpin threads aren't completely thrashed.
@@tacticsboardshop im using the independent "bearing saver" tool
Has the nut kinda buried itself in to the washer? Or is it just worn down from doing a lot of grinds? My suggestion would be to use a vice grip. Then you can really clamp down on that kingpin nut from any angle and start loosening it. I hope that helps! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop yea it buried itself. thanks for the advice🤘
What is the reason for pivot cups? Are they supposed to feel like foam like mine? What happens when the pivot cups rip in half?
Pivot cups hold the pivot in place and prevent it from wiggling around and chattering against your baseplate. It's important to have a functioning pivot cup if you don't want floppy unstable trucks. Usually pivot cups are made of hard urethane, just like your bushings. I've never seen foam pivot cups.🤔 If your pivot cup rips in half and is negatively affecting your skating, then you should replace it. Cheers! - Tim
Tactics Boardshop thx but I might have to get new trucks because my trucks are non- brand ones from Amazon.
Why is it so hard to find replace baseplates for independent trucks? My hardware holes are stretched out too much. Also, I feel like you should have gone over how to prevent this because it can be pretty annoying when your skateboard keeps turning by itself due to this problem.
Tighten your hardware every session this is the determining factor for me and my thunders which are very prone to baseplate stretching prior to me tightening them and checking them all the time I got about a year before they got stretched. I’m current on my second + year on standard thunders and they are only still pretty good. I even had to buy the thunder rebuild kit to get new bushing which is a first for me, I usually just ride trucks till they are stretched and then move on one loose hardware actually makes a difference I dunno how kids purposely and willingly skate with 3 bolts I just retighten every nutt every session and if I’m doing a lot of tailslides or noseslides I’ll even check the mid session sometimes
Hi hou are you i am riding a rippa bord and my tale is broken and i cant avord a royol bord if you have old wans let me no
What about small trucks?
How much should a set of trucks worth?
what cheap trucks would u recommend? im a little bit on a budget 😂
A couple decent budget truck brands are: Tensor, MiniLogo, and Bullet trucks. Here's a link to some trucks under $35. I hope you find something you like. Cheers! - Tim www.tactics.com/trucks/rp-0-35
But what happens when ur nut is so damaged ur T tool won’t fit on the bolt what should I do?
You'll have to use either a visegrip or a crescent wrench (pliers will probably work too) to clamp down on the nut. Cheers! - Tim
MMA Inverter Welder - $99, welding auto mask - $30, Angle grinder - $10, Aluminium electrode - $3 piece.
skating my pair of trucks 4 2 years now lol
I think you are supposed to back up the die a little bit every turn or so.
Why does my nuts axle nuts keep tightening up? Or my wheel stop wobbling causing me to crash almost immediately.. I have to smack my wheel on the ground to fix it every 5 steps
Are the axle nuts tightening or is the axle shifting side to side inside the hangar? If the axle is slipping, it will pinch one of the wheels while the other get's more wiggle room. If that's the problem, then it's probably better to get new trucks. If it's just the axle nut tightening from the vibrations, then you could get some new axle nuts with the fresh nylon on them. I hope that helps! - Tim
@@tacticsboardshop turns out it was the axle slipping .. idk y it was fairly new truck but it’s all good I wanted an excuse to buy some indies
I skated my first ever trucks for 1 year now and it’s only 25% Through 😂