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Well I just blew out the teeth on my diff and snapped another axle shaft at the same time.

I need some suggestions friends, does anyone make some stouter axle shafts besides the beefier tamiya ones? also is anyone running RC4WD's TracGear Spool Locker ? Is there another option for that as well? I am apparently putting out some power here? I wasn't bound up that bad or anything actually at all, but it happened none the less

o say go with some blackfoot shafts

Question is does anyone have them and if so where?

fleabay?

nothing....that I could find

CRUSHER1 said:

o say go with some blackfoot shafts

Blackfoot stubshafts are not going to help your situation.

SpEcLeDx2 said:

Question is does anyone have them and if so where?

There are no other shafts for the TLT axle currently. In fact as a replacement, there is only one option and that is the beefier ones that Tamiya sells but is currently out of. Buy a few sets and keep them handy.

What will help you is to go and get some teflon shims that Traxxas makes and shim the ring and pinions. The fact is the metal that the diff parts is made of is cheap crap. And the tolerances are pretty wide. So by shimming them you force the gears together making them mesh tighter. This will help minimize the teeth breaking and wearing away. It will not however make it go away forever.

do you know the part number for those shims?

Here you go. http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXJJ88&P=0

Thanks, it seems like everything I need is on backorder
this blows I may not be running for a while

did you have the rockbuster shafts in there or the beefier ones?

rock busters for now I have six sets of the beefier ones (I think and hope) on order.

yeah the replacement are the beefier ones. that pinion is toast. hows the ring gear? i think those are on backorder at tower too.

the whole thing is shot to hell. thats what I get for trying to do a little night crawling and having some fun. I ordered the whole diff from RCP last night got a couple of them. those should be here pretty quick fortunately I still have another axle so I should be good for the weekend hopefully but I know I'll blow the shaft again this thing just has a bunch of torque and those axle shafts are the only weak point.

Where do you live? I got two sets of the shafts just layin' around that i cant use. You want em'?

I'll let you know how this one holds up when I get the other parts I live in south austin.

MelloYello said:

Where do you live? I got two sets of the shafts just layin' around that i cant use. You want em'?

If they are the beefier Max Climber ones, I will take them from you. How much you want for them?