Motosickness
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- Location
- Lincoln, Ca
- Arrma RC's
- Infraction
- Kraton EXB
- Mojave EXB
- Senton 6s
- Talion
So, I finally got a Mojave exb. I bought in in November, and put it together last month with the max 6 setup. I have ran it 4 times now, and have had a few little issues. Problem#1 , pic #3 shows how close it gets to the edge. The left rear dog bone popped out. So I set droop to 0, flat during that run and it still popped out repeatedly. After examining it later, determined that I needed to add a o-ring or rubber spacer on the outdrive side to hold the axle in towards the diff cup more. Why are the axles Soo short? Plenty of room at suspension limits for a longer axle. Hmm so, New vehicle, 2 runs on it. I didn't want to use o-rings, from my experience they don't last long in something driven hard, and they come out/go away at the most inoportune moments. When I took it apart, the wheel bearings on that side were done, crunchy ,that's problem # 2. I was running in really dry super dusty conditions #3 was when I got the front supposedly hardened cvd's from rcawd because they were the quickest available and tried to get the rear carriers apart, needless to say they didn't come apart, at our shop, or at the hobby store, have them soaking in solvent currently, not stripped out yet. I will get them apart, eventually. So new front cvd's for the rear, new rear wheel bearings, new hub/bearing carriers and some bonus +2 hubs added all around. So now, prob #4 one run on the new supposedly hardened axles, and they are done. Pic # 2 The guys at the hobby store didn't think the cvd setup would last long in the rear w my setup, but I gave it a try, and the cvd part is fine, well they lasted one 7600 120c pack at least, but the diff side pins in the axles are almost completely worn away pic#2 . So, my question is, with longevity and reliability in mind , what is the best fix , anyone else have experience w hardened cvd's, are gpm ones better, anybody make better ones ? Stock cvd's better? Should I just go back to stock dogbones and add o-rings, and then- Is it the wheel bearings suck and my new ones should last longer with the original setup and o-rings? I thought it may be a dust issue w the bearings so the cvd's would of fixed that. Haven't had this issue w my other 6s rigs for some reason. Driven same place, same conditions. Any advice is appreciated.
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