ArrmaDanny
Fairly New Member
Hi All,
I ran into some troubles with my Kraton after changing the tires and doing the diff fluid. The kraton is just a couple of months old, I bash lightly from time to time but my overall driving is just racing around a nice off-roadarea with a little bit of everything Holland has to offer. Tall and short grass, a gravelpath and lake natural hills for some jumps, a river with a beach (driftheaven?) an abandoned stonefactory (not as thrilling as it sounds anymore unfortunately and some cows that for some reason seem to have taken a liking towards RC cars ,no joke, couldn't get it back on my own because there were at least 8 cows standing by the thing . It wasn't untill my mate stepped up and we maked some noise together, we we're able to get my truck back from those gnarly beasts, oh the excitement to be had right in my own backyard haha. If any dutchies would like the location of this place let me know, ill send you a link. It's in Vuren, nearby Gorinchem. But i'm degressing, back to the problem.
The tirechange went from a stock Dboots copperheads to some Dboots Backflips, been waiting on them ever since they were on backorder the day after my birthday on the 23 of june, you can imagine how excited i was to try them bad boys out!
While the wheels were already coming of might as well do some maintenance to the whole truck and.... change the diff oils for the first time in my life.
I was already hating the prospect of starting on the diffs beccause all i seemed to read was trouble after opening them up. Seeing luck is usually not on my side in situations like this, i had my fingers crossed and went for it.
So i changed all the stock fluid in all three diffs.
I went with
80k front
100k middle
50k rear
I didn't do the full taking apart of all the diffs, i did it the easy (lazy) way. I just opened them up drained them and cleaned them up with a cloth and then filled them back up.
Normally I would take the long route but due to health related issues i choose this method. Everything looked fine on inspection and seeing there were no issue's before I thought it would be safe to assume nothing out of the ordinary was going on inside.
And ofcourse the tirechange, from Dboots Copperheads to Dboots Backflips, vented them and on they went.
Now the problem :
With normal driving nothing seems to be out of the ordinary and there are no alarming sounds.
Driving Forward - No additional sounds
Slowly in reverse - No additional sounds
Faster in reverse - Noise
Landing after Wheelie- Noise
Applying brakes-noise
The wheels turn in opposite direction of eachother.
I cant say that it's slower than before..
Could it just be my gear mesh being to loose?
I think you can best decribe the noise as a rattling, cracking noise.
I have some video's on my phone, Ill try to get hem on here.
Anyway thanks in advance you guys
I ran into some troubles with my Kraton after changing the tires and doing the diff fluid. The kraton is just a couple of months old, I bash lightly from time to time but my overall driving is just racing around a nice off-roadarea with a little bit of everything Holland has to offer. Tall and short grass, a gravelpath and lake natural hills for some jumps, a river with a beach (driftheaven?) an abandoned stonefactory (not as thrilling as it sounds anymore unfortunately and some cows that for some reason seem to have taken a liking towards RC cars ,no joke, couldn't get it back on my own because there were at least 8 cows standing by the thing . It wasn't untill my mate stepped up and we maked some noise together, we we're able to get my truck back from those gnarly beasts, oh the excitement to be had right in my own backyard haha. If any dutchies would like the location of this place let me know, ill send you a link. It's in Vuren, nearby Gorinchem. But i'm degressing, back to the problem.
The tirechange went from a stock Dboots copperheads to some Dboots Backflips, been waiting on them ever since they were on backorder the day after my birthday on the 23 of june, you can imagine how excited i was to try them bad boys out!
While the wheels were already coming of might as well do some maintenance to the whole truck and.... change the diff oils for the first time in my life.
I was already hating the prospect of starting on the diffs beccause all i seemed to read was trouble after opening them up. Seeing luck is usually not on my side in situations like this, i had my fingers crossed and went for it.
So i changed all the stock fluid in all three diffs.
I went with
80k front
100k middle
50k rear
I didn't do the full taking apart of all the diffs, i did it the easy (lazy) way. I just opened them up drained them and cleaned them up with a cloth and then filled them back up.
Normally I would take the long route but due to health related issues i choose this method. Everything looked fine on inspection and seeing there were no issue's before I thought it would be safe to assume nothing out of the ordinary was going on inside.
And ofcourse the tirechange, from Dboots Copperheads to Dboots Backflips, vented them and on they went.
Now the problem :
With normal driving nothing seems to be out of the ordinary and there are no alarming sounds.
Driving Forward - No additional sounds
Slowly in reverse - No additional sounds
Faster in reverse - Noise
Landing after Wheelie- Noise
Applying brakes-noise
The wheels turn in opposite direction of eachother.
I cant say that it's slower than before..
Could it just be my gear mesh being to loose?
I think you can best decribe the noise as a rattling, cracking noise.
I have some video's on my phone, Ill try to get hem on here.
Anyway thanks in advance you guys
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