During the rebuild/ reassembly of my Outcast 8s with the m2c chassis, I noticed some dirt and sand in the rear gearbox housing so I decided to pull the diff and clean the case out real good. When I pulled out the diff I noticed some leaking around the screws. I decided to see how tight the screws were and possibly look inside the diff if the screws came out easy. They were actually pretty loose! I pulled them out and looked at the diff, and surprisingly I didn't see a gasket. Looking closer I found small pieces of gasket mixed all in the diff - not enough to account for the whole gasket, so the rest must have gotten pureed . I began to break the diff down and clean it out, and then noticed that the 4 little nipples or tabs that are part of the diff case were all snapped off. It threw me off at first because my 6s does not have this design, but basically there are little round pins that are part of the diff case and they go through holes beside the screw holes in the metal ring gear/diff lid. I guess the screws were loose or came loose and then snapped the pins in the case. Well I thought I was going to have my outcast back together this weekend but unless my LHS has a diff case in stock it will probably be next weekend before its back up and running.
I just wanted to give others a heads up, as technically it was still operating this way but likely would have loosened enough eventually and ate all my diff gears
I just wanted to give others a heads up, as technically it was still operating this way but likely would have loosened enough eventually and ate all my diff gears