Crawler Canyon Presents: CC Fab Lab, Canyon Customs Inserts

Hey, it's arts 'n crafts... I mean, uh, Canyon Customs Inserts time!
The things
Timtin dual stage amzn.to/45y6gnQ
Medium hair buns amzn.to/3qALYLJ
Food friendly foam amzn.to/47GCXl2
Carpet tape amzn.to/3E1QHsO
VICTOR amzn.to/3P5s6tE
IG: crawlercanyon

[@ck7777]

Just made my first set of canyon customs for 1.9 ruptures streched onto 2.2 wheels. Used 3 wraps of fridge foam for the fronts and a 4 inch hair bun for the rear (Both on no-name aliexpress dual stage inners). Insane performance!! Cleared several lines I never thought possible! Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@ck7777]

oh ya and front fridge foam cut to 48mm width

[@watch-box]

This is a great idea. Anyone can do this - its a great introduction to a tuneable part on a truck that costs very little, and can be reset and restarted so easily. Thank you for sharing.

[@brianmorrison2846]

I run canyon softs on everything thing except the rear of my k10 high trail which has canyon mediums in ruptures. This has changed my life thanks

[@danweiss1371]

Great, informative video. Always appreciated.

[@Brian_Mowry__BMOW71]

Hey, this was the video that I've been waiting on. Big thanks for taking the time to make this in-depth how-to step-by-step vid to make these foams. Greatly appreciated!!

[@jackhando5465]

I bet that you get the looks at the dollar store getting hair buns. Being that you have no hair I mean...lol Very informative video from the guy that knows tires and inserts!

[@BrandonMythigander]

Ohhh. Canyon custom foams 👌👌👌👌👌👌😎😎😎

[@BrandonMythigander]

Those canyon shock stands looking damn good 😎😎😎😎😎

[@derrickhays3627]

Excellent tutorial that looks so easy even I can do it😅 thanks for your time and great info!

[@marksaxton4760]

Great ink Thx again Mr Canyon. 😊

[@BrandonMythigander]

Ordering things as we speak 🤣🤣🤣. Gonna be fun little tire project 👌😎

[@Team_ReVolt]

That freedom unit ruler though 😎😁

[@CrawlerCanyon]

Hey, it's got milli-o-meters on one side!

[@Team_ReVolt]

@@CrawlerCanyon that thing costs 48€ on Amazon Belgium 😲

[@CrawlerCanyon]

@@Team_ReVolt at time of my purchase, Victor was $6.99USD. EUROPE IS A MADHOUSE

[@Team_ReVolt]

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[@drowildcat2960]

Another excellent video

[@Mad4saxBrewery]

Reilly's Rangers. Nice video!

[@Broncorc64]

With my Injora blues I use 3.5 inch on my 4.7 inch tires

[@TyJoe_N_MattyMoe]

I dig the Crawler Canyon signs. They would look cool on a scale course.

[@andrewcaldrewood2387]

Nice! The only thing I have to go buy is the hair buns. 😎

[@NEO-RC]

Really really good information! I was wondering what kind of foam they use and it’s really to good to know of the other options. 👍👍

[@Chuck-w4c]

Uncle Chuck wants to know, are they as good at keeping veggies fresh as they are at supporting sweet tire treads? I feel like this is a case of finding the true purpose of an invention.

[@CrawlerCanyon]

Despite my huge pile of them, I have yet to bring one into the house to serve it's intended purpose. I also have a couple of pond pumps that need new filters, but MORE INSERTS, MORE TIRES

[@Chuck-w4c]

Nice to know that I’m not the only one with a tire fetish. Only one rig, started this crawler thing early this year and I have…five sets of tires and just ordered two more…for one rig.

[@meirdeaph]

Awesomeness ❤❤

[@mfnJOSH]

I've developed a hybrid 2 stage printed insert. Timtin inner, printed outer. Once broken in and tested, I will need your shipping info for some other testing. Jus sayin ✌️

[@mfnJOSH]

I call them B.O.B. inserts. (BEST OF BOTH) There will be 3 compliance levels. Theres a limp BOB, average BOB, stiff BOB.

[@fromfin90]

the waste you call it, the thin strip of yellow, one could use it for the silly narrow class 0 sub 90mm tall tires as inserts

[@petechipps9770]

Just added all this to my Amazon cart except for the refrigerator foam. It is currently unavailable in the 12x16 size 😢. It is now 12x15. Still gonna try the CC inserts. Thanks for the information

[@CrawlerCanyon]

the 12x15 should be long enough. My two strips are 1.5 x 11.5 and 1.5 x 13.5. So you would still get a "bonus strip" from the end of the sheet, cutting the whole sheet to 13.5" long.

[@drowildcat2960]

Question everyone. What's your favorite tire insert you like running the most.. ???

[@HollerRC]

I’m going to ship out those inserts once the heat dome passes.

[@TheAmericanUhate]

Yzzr 3d inserts are $35 to $40 a set. The guy will even make custom ones for you too. I'm going to try some out on my next setup. So far I've got squids in everything lol

[@CrawlerCanyon]

But are still "one and done." The insert for a Deep Woods/Fossil isn't going to fit a Tusk. Like I said, 3D printing is the future of inserts as I see it, but they still suffer the same drawbacks as multi-stage open cell foams, as there isn't even a "one size fits most." IMO, what I'm making does indeed fit most.

[@TheAmericanUhate]

@CrawlerCanyon Yeah that is a drawback for specific sized inserts for sure. The yzzr has a generic 4.75 size that fits most. I think the optimal situation would be having a 3d printer and being able to make your own 3d inserts for less than $8 in material per set, in any size & stiffness you want. But that's a larger upfront cost. Could pay itself off eventually just selling a few sets to friends.

[@HollerRC]

What is the OD of those 43mm wide inner foams? Admittedly, I’m eating dinner while watching, so I may have missed it.

[@CrawlerCanyon]

I probably didn't say it. 87mm.

[@after9527]

Great tutorial. Have you tried narrowing the closed cell foam to make a narrower insert for the fake KLR/M's? Did it work?

[@jmnaylor]

I have a question for you about Canyon Trails, are the canyon trails that come in kit form the S? And a RTR canyon trails are just Canyon Trails? Thanks

[@CrawlerCanyon]

If you're buying something today, they're all S1s, in both 1.9" and 2.2". Going back a couple of years, pretty much everything 1.9" came on a non-S1 "RTR" compound, and the Defenders came with non-S1 as recently as 2020. IIRC, everything is now S1, but there are still undoubtedly tons of the old "RTR compound" floating around out there.

[@jmnaylor]

@@CrawlerCanyon Thank you, I knew if anyone knew it would be you.

[@JPWirt]

I'm very interested in the Class 1 variant with the Injora innards, as the latest C1 build is on my bench currently.

[@CrawlerCanyon]

Haha! You've fallen into my content trap! Now I have an idea for a video!

[@JPWirt]

@@CrawlerCanyon If you hadn't mentioned it, I was going to. I had the thought the other day to "Canyonize" some printed inserts I have that are too thin/small for my C1 tires. I was going to cut the outermost layer off, leaving myself a printed inner ring to do the webwrap thing with.

[@Dozern90]

Whats the weight of these? not sure if its been mentioned at some point.

[@CrawlerCanyon]

I wanna say a soft weighs around 15g. They're light. Anything with the Injora inner is going to be substantially heavier, up to around 70g each.

[@Dozern90]

@@CrawlerCanyon cheers

[@DrKrawl]

Hello Mr. Crawler man, what are your thoughts on bb’s in the tires? I love them in my 1/24’s but I know you think their just kid toys that are too small!😅

[@mathias4891]

No less than 3 lol this guy 😂

[@andrewcaldrewood2387]

Off topic, My LHS just called me to tell me my ecto is in but he also said he got a v2 builders kit as well. What is the better one to build off of? Is the ecto the same +torsion bar?

[@CrawlerCanyon]

The is a personal preference, but I found that trailing arms are good up to a point, and then become a hindrance for dedicated crawling-- of all the rigs here that were born as Ectos, Gatekeepers, or anything else with trailing arms, none of them remain. So I think if you're going for a "pure crawler" you're going to end up replacing those with a 4-link anyway. Were I making the choice, I would take the Builder's Kit and put an Ecto body on it. The Ecto is great, but the "RTR tax" we have to pay just to get a 480X, Reedy Crawler 5-slot and Reedy 1523 servo is far too high. Honestly, around $100 worth of electronics (Fusion SE 1200 + 35kg blue case servo) will put you on a performance level so high as to be incomparable to the RTR. The kit will also get you Factory Team shocks, which are some of the nicest kit shocks out there.

[@andrewcaldrewood2387]

@@CrawlerCanyon thank you very much! I was guessing the kit would be smarter choice and I was planning on getting an se fusion so you cleared up which one to get. I know he ordered the kit because I like to build them more than run them. 😁

[@Team_ReVolt]

Tusks 🤤

[@neildaniels5443]

Blonde, Brown or Black.......Ginger?😅asking for a friend 😅😊

[@shaynejenkins446]

Hair buns don't fill in the sidewalls.

[@CrawlerCanyon]

What?