How often to grind tires?

[Egoracing]

Where did you hear that it will ruin tires??? I have been using Simple Green for YEARS and NEVER had a single issue. Even when washed with simple green wrapped and put way over the off season and when pulled out the tires still punched what they did when we put them away. ANY detergent with degreaser will dry the rubber out, Simple Green is natural and biodegradable and does not affect the rubber like soaps.
If you look on their web site and do some research Simple Green is listed to be used on Aircraft and safe for all rubber, aluminum and plastic surfaces. It is one of a VERY FEW cleaners listed as safe for unrestricted aircraft use on any surface.

[latemodel86]

I heard from a friend that simple green dries them out and that you should use something like palmolive to keep the tires from drying out. He said that i'd be like if you were to wash your hands with simple green, it would dry your hands, but palmolive will keep your hands moisturized. But, idk.

[Egoracing]

Palmolive has Lauramidopropylamine Oxide which is not reccomended for rubbers or soft surfaces. It is a cleaner that is easy on hands in normal usage and is used in shampoos. Over usage can dry your hands. Lotion smooths your hands but would not reccomend it on your tires!.
The products in simple green do not attack oils like a soap do, they get under it and lift it. If you put oil in a bucket and put the recomended Simple Green/Water mix in it and stir it up. The cleaner will lift the oil from the bucket BUT if you let it set the oil will be released at the top. It works well in water/oil reclaimers or seperators for this reason. Simple green is also listed by the EPA and is used to clean animals and plants during oil spills like the one in the Gulf last year. It can not be to harsh if they are allowed to use it for animals.
Palmolive also has Alcohol which will dry out rubber, Sodium Chloride (salt) that will damage rubber, Magnesium Sulfate (epsome salt) not reccomened for ues with natural rubber hoses when unloading.

Don't think everything you hear is fact, take it as advice and research it.

[latemodel86]

Palmolive has Lauramidopropylamine Oxide which is not reccomended for rubbers or soft surfaces. It is a cleaner that is easy on hands in normal usage and is used in shampoos. Over usage can dry your hands. Lotion smooths your hands but would not reccomend it on your tires!.
The products in simple green do not attack oils like a soap do, they get under it and lift it. If you put oil in a bucket and put the recomended Simple Green/Water mix in it and stir it up. The cleaner will lift the oil from the bucket BUT if you let it set the oil will be released at the top. It works well in water/oil reclaimers or seperators for this reason. Simple green is also listed by the EPA and is used to clean animals and plants during oil spills like the one in the Gulf last year. It can not be to harsh if they are allowed to use it for animals.
Palmolive also has Alcohol which will dry out rubber, Sodium Chloride (salt) that will damage rubber, Magnesium Sulfate (epsome salt) not reccomened for ues with natural rubber hoses when unloading.

Don't think everything you hear is fact, take it as advice and research it.

Well, I know we use to and the past 4 races or so I've been using Palmolive. Well, I check into some more and see what some others are doing. Thanks!

[phenom08]

simple green here

[latemodel86]

Another question is how do you guys grind your tires? I think you're suppose to grind them away from the leading edge I believe, right?

[turner]

SAturday nite, i saw a guy grind his tires and then soak them in brake cleaner. He did it right in the open. He went out and won the feature. Not sure if this helps or hurts, but he is fast every week. I sprayed some brake cleaner on a peice of rubber at work and it really softened it after about 10 min. Has anyone tried this on tires . We used gasoline which seemed to work well.

[Egoracing]

You do not want to use anything that will remove oils from the rubber, unless you want to buy tires each week.

[JTSjet]

simple green works great to clean tires! i would suspect whoever is telling you otherwise might have used some of the other newer formulas of simple green that are out there. you want to make sure you use the dark green stuff.