How to Tighten or Loosen Skateboard Trucks

Video Transcript

"We're talking about skateboarding parts and maintenance. Today we're going to talk about truck maintenance. Tightening and loosing the trucks is important to having your complete skateboard adjusted to your preferred settings. Tighter trucks means it's harder to turn looser trucks means it's easier to turn. To tighten trucks use the appropriate size wrench turn the nut on top of the king pin truck in a clockwise position. Turning it in a clockwise position will tightening the trucks and cause them more resistant to turning. Loosing the trucks will provide opposite effect making them looser and easier to turn. The most important thing is having your trucks almost equally balance but some people prefer differences in their trucks. I for example like to ride my back trucks slightly tighter than my front trucks, the front trucks do more of the turning so having a looser front truck means I can turn easier by leaning without having to always use the tail. Most importantly make sure your trucks are about as loose or even as each other. You can do this by backing the nuts completely off and inserting them and counting the number of rotations you made on the actual nut."