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04-05-2011, 07:13 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: honolulu
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04-06-2011, 06:46 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Chicago
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They go inside the axles to provide strength and support. See the installation thread ( *REVISED* gunnar beef toob install) and you can get a better idea. Quote:
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04-06-2011, 07:07 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: victorville
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are they nessesary? i only have 3 comps and a dozen practice sessions on my rig but the axle tubes havent broken yet. are they prone to breakage?
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04-06-2011, 07:19 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Chapin, South Carolina
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04-06-2011, 09:25 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: San Francisco
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If there's any reason why they are "nice" it is the ability to clock the C's back for more caster {really improves the ability to turn without a "dig" unit. Only disadvantage is I guess they don't work to good with VP knuckles  |
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04-06-2011, 09:32 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Central FL
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Even with little or no caster, the extra 1.5 oz down low, and not added to rotating mass in the wheels/tires, is almost worth it by itself. I've also found that screwing my Cs into the toobs feels much more secure than just screwed into the plastic housing. I had one housing stripped out and another on the way to stripped out before I put toobs in my front axle. |
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04-06-2011, 09:37 PM
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| Ex Nor-CalRCRC slave   Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: San Mateo, CA.
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My new front axle has VP knucks, and assembly went fine. | |
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04-06-2011, 09:56 PM
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04-06-2011, 10:28 PM
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| Tossin' Salad Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Petaluma
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Thanks (yet again) for the false and bad press. Casey | |
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04-06-2011, 10:40 PM
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| Try to Bend it   Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Perth Australia
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Felsenfast Knuckles, CVD's and HR C's again no dramas. Maybe it was the fact that you made them, which caused the issue. There is more than one reason that these are a good product. These reasons has been highlighter to many times for me to list them again. Last edited by Highlucks; 04-06-2011 at 10:43 PM. | |
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04-06-2011, 11:31 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Arlington
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People use dogbones? Weird. |
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04-07-2011, 12:38 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: San Francisco
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 Sorry for the misunderstanding KC, was going off old info  | |
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04-07-2011, 12:42 AM
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| Tossin' Salad Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Petaluma
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04-07-2011, 05:30 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: crawlorado
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hey kc i was wondering if my toobs got shipped? i know its gonna take a minute for them to get here....paypaled from ischqabibbel...2 sets to colorado
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04-07-2011, 05:53 PM
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| Tossin' Salad Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Petaluma
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It should not take long mate. I sent that order to Scott on April 4th. Casey Quote:
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04-07-2011, 07:20 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: crawlorado
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04-07-2011, 07:31 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: FOUR 8 OH
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They are used for making babies.
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04-07-2011, 08:21 PM
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| Try to Bend it Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Perth Australia
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04-07-2011, 09:03 PM
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Back to the issue at hand. I was to cheap to buy beef tubes and built my own alumi-tubes based on the concept of the beef tubes. While doing it I also drilled a hole in my hand which was really weird to watch heal, but thats another forum. Anyway here is the overall benefit the way I see it. If you are running a front end of any rig loaded up with weight, and a strong servo I personally think you are bound to have some failure of some kind or another like riping a chub off the axle. Anyway, metal on metal is always a winner. then you get the benefit of caster as well.
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04-07-2011, 10:22 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: crawlorado
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im going for a xr knuckled beef toob loaded 20some odd degree castor front end for my sporty rig lolits gonna need the support...beef toobs just make sense...when gunnar first posted about them forever ago ive been very intrigued...cant wait to finally get mine... i still havent broken a housing after three yrs crawling....but the ability to completely set your castor is awesome
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