Oh nuggets axel carrier damage.

[Shogun6]

Just had the tiny revo as my daughter calls it out for a run.

Thought I cooked a diff as it was crunching and grinding pretty good. Isolated the noise to the center of the truck and thought the tranny was damaged. Took off cover off gears and noticed a pine needle stuc in the gears. Dental pick took care of that...

Packaged it up ready for another run and noticed increased left rear wobble.

After removing the tire I noticed the 2 pieces of plastic holding the pillow ball retainer on the bottom was broken.

The rear end is disassembled and ready for repair.

Should I get another traxxas part, rpm, or aluminum?

I like the idea of aluminum as there are still other plastic parts that will bend and give.

What is the experience of the masses???

[Slono]

To save you having to search, the general consensus is that Golden Horizon and GPM Racing aluminum axle carriers are the only ones available now that work well. So look for those. I speak on behalf of 90% of the users here.

[kuskye25]

ive been really happy with my GH knuckles, no issues

[pooochie]

my orange GH axle carriers work so well, they're sold out though

[Shogun6]

How are the rpm versions?

The GH are out of stock but I can get the rpm ones.

[50togo]

the rpm's work fine when new but after a few miles the large bearing develops slop and some people have the pillow ball pop out

[Shogun6]

Ok GH it is....

[50togo]

[IMG][/IMG] i run the blue gh carriers works great

[Shogun6]

How do you like the aluminum push rods and toe links?

[50togo]

[IMG][/IMG] i run the blue gh carriers works great

[50togo]

They work great. Have had a few hard hits held up great. Looks good too!

[jimbo74]

To save you having to search, the general consensus is that Golden Horizon and GPM Racing aluminum axle carriers are the only ones available now that work well. So look for those. I speak on behalf of 90% of the users here.

i currently run gpm...... gh are acceptable form what i have read as well

i used to have rpm, they were a huge waste of money, the bearings holes severly wallowed out, and the pillow balls popped out every run

[Mossie]

just take the advise from the guys here and go for GPM knuckles

[Shogun6]

[IMG][/IMG] i run the blue gh carriers works great

What brand of rocker arm is that between the pushrods and shock? Since I am likely tearing the truck apart I might as well bulletproof as much as I can....

Checked gpm site and they come from hong kong and are sold out.

[Mossie]

a lot of stores dont have GH , HR or Gpm stuff in stock the last few weeks
dont know why the Alu stuff is a prob to get

but

after a long search last week i got them from germany at Fortuna racing cars this shop has a lot GPM stuff on stock
and delivers very fast

[50togo]

The rockers are gh also

[50togo]

Don't forget rocker bearings!

[krallopian]

50 runs, and the RPM (widely available and much much cheaper) carriers have worked great for me, only two major crashes have popped them out. I'd rather they pop then force something else to break. No damage, just a few screws to unscrew and rescrew and it's fixed when it does happen. I drive hard and they've fine.

[jimbo74]

50 runs, and the RPM (widely available and much much cheaper) carriers have worked great for me, only two major crashes have popped them out. I'd rather they pop then force something else to break. No damage, just a few screws to unscrew and rescrew and it's fixed when it does happen. I drive hard and they've fine.

wait till you can see daylight around the bearings......

i was popping the pillow balls out every 2 minutes of runtime...

[BigFlash]

i agree with jimbo on the rpm's. they work well for my rally but on the merv chassis they get destroyed, i had all the problems he had.

[Shogun6]

Ordered a set of oem carriers to get me through the weekend. GH on back order for a few weeks. Due to living in Canada some of the deals posted are a waste as shipping is as much or more than the part.

The push rods and steering knuckles as well as metal balls and diff shims should be in the package. I will do some on the weekend but reserve the diff shimming until the GH carriers arrive and do a more complete tear down and fix up.

I am considering using a dry lube on the ring/pinion gear. What do you guys use?

[Shogun6]

Don't forget rocker bearings!

Which ones? Part number?

[50togo]

I am testing Sullivan's dry ice on the ring&pinion. Goes on wet dries and leaves behind Teflon coating. So far so good

[JJVeld]

I just broke one of mine i checked gpm and gh but they are sold out. should i just order the stock ones from traxxas. i kinda wanna get it up and running as soon as possible so i want it now