First off, my apologies for adding to the recent flood of slipper-clutch-related threads.
Reading along with these threads however, I concluded it would be wise the loosen the slipper clutch of my V3 Typhon 3S a couple of turns, especially since I've just finished bolting on a set of humongous MX28 Badlands tires.
It wasn't hard to find a couple of excellent tutorials on how to do this, but I quickly ran into a problem: when I take out the driveshaft and stick a 2mm hex driver into the adjustment screw and then roll the car forward or back, the wheels lock up almost immediately -- in either direction. It also feels like the hex driver is constantly fighting me, wanting to slip out of my grip and turn, to the point where even using the 2mm allen wrench that came with the car for some extra leverage doesn't seem to help.
I also tried simply turning the driver/wrench itself while holding the car still, but all this seems to accomplish is that the slipper clutch begins to 'click' and the wheels begin to rotate slightly, whether I try to turn clockwise or counter-clockwise.
So... Has anyone else experienced this?
Is it perhaps possible that this screw has been dipped in copious amounts of threadlocker from the factory?
And, if so, is there some trick I can employ to get enough leverage to actually loosen the slipper clutch screw?
Many thanks in advance!
(For some reason, things being ridiculously tight seems to be a theme in my Typhon... When I wanted to adjust the mesh of my pinion gear I found out the two bolts in the motor plate were screwed in so tightly they'd actually left circular dents in the aluminum...)
Reading along with these threads however, I concluded it would be wise the loosen the slipper clutch of my V3 Typhon 3S a couple of turns, especially since I've just finished bolting on a set of humongous MX28 Badlands tires.
It wasn't hard to find a couple of excellent tutorials on how to do this, but I quickly ran into a problem: when I take out the driveshaft and stick a 2mm hex driver into the adjustment screw and then roll the car forward or back, the wheels lock up almost immediately -- in either direction. It also feels like the hex driver is constantly fighting me, wanting to slip out of my grip and turn, to the point where even using the 2mm allen wrench that came with the car for some extra leverage doesn't seem to help.
I also tried simply turning the driver/wrench itself while holding the car still, but all this seems to accomplish is that the slipper clutch begins to 'click' and the wheels begin to rotate slightly, whether I try to turn clockwise or counter-clockwise.
So... Has anyone else experienced this?
Is it perhaps possible that this screw has been dipped in copious amounts of threadlocker from the factory?
And, if so, is there some trick I can employ to get enough leverage to actually loosen the slipper clutch screw?
Many thanks in advance!
(For some reason, things being ridiculously tight seems to be a theme in my Typhon... When I wanted to adjust the mesh of my pinion gear I found out the two bolts in the motor plate were screwed in so tightly they'd actually left circular dents in the aluminum...)