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kaho0338 · 10-31-2007, 10:26 AM

Here is my ideas, hope you like it.

add a 12x18x4mm bearing on the shaft or use a 12mm spacer to fix the shaft failure.

Cheatin · 10-31-2007, 10:38 AM

Cool idea, but does the outer edge snag on stuff?

constantmotion · 10-31-2007, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cheatin

Cool idea, but does the outer edge snag on stuff?

It's not much difference between the bearing sticking out and a zip tie

Barillms · 10-31-2007, 12:04 PM

Why use a bearing for this? You just put a bearing on there because u had it lying around. Thats silly.

Keep your bearings for where they belong.... and anyway, a slick metal bearing isn't going to stay there after dragging it across rocks all day. You gotta get your "bearings" straight man!!!

If anything, us a plastic coil isolater around each yoke, and tack it in place in a few spots with super glue.

1. Buy a bag or two or Traxxas Stampede Long half shafts.
2. For your driveshafts, Use TWO female pieces, cut one down about 1/2" shorter.
3. Use ONE male shaft with the yoke removed in the center to join the two females.
4. You should put a small spring (1/2" long) inside each end of the female shafts to keep the male "slipper" in place, centered.

4.Buy 4 Traxxas Stampede metal yokes too.

Done.

This won't break, pull out or give you any grief.

DWALL · 10-31-2007, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barillms

Why use a bearing for this? You just put a bearing on there because u had it lying around. Thats silly.

Keep your bearings for where they belong.... and anyway, a slick metal bearing isn't going to stay there after dragging it across rocks all day. You gotta get your "bearings" straight man!!!

If anything, us a plastic coil isolater around each yoke, and tack it in place in a few spots with super glue.

1. Buy a bag or two or Traxxas Stampede Long half shafts.
2. For your driveshafts, Use TWO female pieces, cut one down about 1/2" shorter.
3. Use ONE male shaft with the yoke removed in the center to join the two females.
4. You should put a small spring (1/2" long) inside each end of the female shafts to keep the male "slipper" in place, centered.

4.Buy 4 Traxxas Stampede metal yokes too.

Done.

This won't break, pull out or give you any grief.

Any pics?

onespeeder · 10-31-2007, 01:18 PM

I had a driveshaft pop off and instead of fooling with it, I just replaced them with Jato shafts. I used the steel pede yokes and drilled the pinion for a through screw instead of the grub screws. Works great so far!

kaho0338 · 10-31-2007, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barillms

Why use a bearing for this? You just put a bearing on there because u had it lying around. Thats silly.

Keep your bearings for where they belong.... and anyway, a slick metal bearing isn't going to stay there after dragging it across rocks all day. You gotta get your "bearings" straight man!!!

If anything, us a plastic coil isolater around each yoke, and tack it in place in a few spots with super glue.

1. Buy a bag or two or Traxxas Stampede Long half shafts.
2. For your driveshafts, Use TWO female pieces, cut one down about 1/2" shorter.
3. Use ONE male shaft with the yoke removed in the center to join the two females.
4. You should put a small spring (1/2" long) inside each end of the female shafts to keep the male "slipper" in place, centered.

4.Buy 4 Traxxas Stampede metal yokes too.

Done.

This won't break, pull out or give you any grief.

Thanks for suggest, i just get me car few days ago, and have failure on the first run, so i don't want to use so much money to mod the car.

i will try to use super glue to stick the bearing and test run again.

dinger · 10-31-2007, 02:28 PM

Good luck with that.

Barillms · 10-31-2007, 03:22 PM

A hole in your output shafts is severly weakening the shaft.

YOu're removing maybe 40% of the material in one small location making up the bulk of the shaft that is constanly under twisting stain. So now, instead of twisting a yoke, or a shaft, you're going to break a output shaft... and thats definately not good. That's Bad idea #2.

The grub screws aren't going anywhere if you have good allen driver, and use lots of locktite.

The Jato shafts is good, but drilling.... ahh, no.

Barillms · 10-31-2007, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaho0338

Thanks for suggest, i just get me car few days ago, and have failure on the first run, so i don't want to use so much money to mod the car.

i will try to use super glue to stick the bearing and test run again.

Ok, glue the ball bearings to your driveshafts.
Super glue sticks to oily metal really good... So, definately thats the way to go.
If you have any other ideas, PM me.

EeePee · 10-31-2007, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barillms

4. You should put a small spring (1/2" long) inside each end of the female shafts to keep the male "slipper" in place, centered...

This won't break, pull out or give you any grief.

Just glue the male end inside the female. Forget the springs. Pede shafts are actually pretty weak. Especially if they've popped off once. Pretty much a reoccuring problem waiting to happen.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barillms

A hole in your output shafts is severly weakening the shaft.

We've drilled holes in the input/output shafts for years. (TLT shafts)

The Pede driveshaft gives out before the drilled shaft. Heck, Pede transmissions have their output already drilled from Traxxasssss.

HauntFreaks.com · 10-31-2007, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barillms

A hole in your output shafts is severly weakening the shaft.

YOu're removing maybe 40% of the material in one small location making up the bulk of the shaft that is constanly under twisting stain. So now, instead of twisting a yoke, or a shaft, you're going to break a output shaft... and thats definately not good. That's Bad idea #2.

drilling the output on the pinion shouldnt hurt anything, all you doing is making it a wheely king or any other Traxxas output (they all have holes in them)... but even easier would be to put a wheely king pinion and output in the axle... now I wouldnt go and drill a hole in the tranny outputs because its alum. and yes it will break over time. but I have the fix for that in a future post...

onespeeder · 10-31-2007, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EeePee

We've drilled holes in the input/output shafts for years. (TLT shafts)

The Pede driveshaft gives out before the drilled shaft. Heck, Pede transmissions have their output already drilled from Traxxasssss.

Exactly. Plus the outputs from the R2D are also drilled through. Now the yokes are firmly attached at both ends. And shafts are a cheap fuse.

Heck, I've stripped all the teeth off of a TLT pinion before breaking the actual pinion shaft.

Barillms · 10-31-2007, 06:06 PM

Guys, he's talking about super gluing ball bearings to his yokes.
Now that's funny.

yotachump · 10-31-2007, 06:09 PM

a bearing is a little big dont you think

. you want something low profile so it doesn't get caught on rocks

binaryterror · 10-31-2007, 07:44 PM

Yeah even a small zip tie is way smaller than that giant bearing. I run a zip tie on the one at the rear axle (only one I popped ever) and still it clears fine.

kaho0338 · 10-31-2007, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yotachump

a bearing is a little big dont you think

. you want something low profile so it doesn't get caught on rocks

the other idea is using spring spacer or any 12mm spacer...
it will much smaller than bearing.

10-31-2007, 10:26 AM	#1
kaho0338 Newbie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 29	Share my ideas on fixing AX10 shaft. Here is my ideas, hope you like it. add a 12x18x4mm bearing on the shaft or use a 12mm spacer to fix the shaft failure.

10-31-2007, 12:04 PM	#4
Barillms Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Steubenville Posts: 249	Why use a bearing for this? You just put a bearing on there because u had it lying around. Thats silly. Keep your bearings for where they belong.... and anyway, a slick metal bearing isn't going to stay there after dragging it across rocks all day. You gotta get your "bearings" straight man!!! If anything, us a plastic coil isolater around each yoke, and tack it in place in a few spots with super glue. 1. Buy a bag or two or Traxxas Stampede Long half shafts. 2. For your driveshafts, Use TWO female pieces, cut one down about 1/2" shorter. 3. Use ONE male shaft with the yoke removed in the center to join the two females. 4. You should put a small spring (1/2" long) inside each end of the female shafts to keep the male "slipper" in place, centered. 4.Buy 4 Traxxas Stampede metal yokes too. Done. This won't break, pull out or give you any grief. Last edited by Barillms; 10-31-2007 at 12:07 PM.

10-31-2007, 06:09 PM	#15
yotachump ghetto fabulous newbie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: with your mom Posts: 2,526	a bearing is a little big dont you think. you want something low profile so it doesn't get caught on rocks

10-31-2007, 10:38 AM	#2
Cheatin Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: No Cajones en El Cajones Posts: 495	Cool idea, but does the outer edge snag on stuff?

10-31-2007, 01:18 PM	#6
onespeeder Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: PDX Posts: 426	I had a driveshaft pop off and instead of fooling with it, I just replaced them with Jato shafts. I used the steel pede yokes and drilled the pinion for a through screw instead of the grub screws. Works great so far!

10-31-2007, 02:28 PM	#8
dinger Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Calgary Posts: 89	Good luck with that.

10-31-2007, 03:22 PM	#9
Barillms Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Steubenville Posts: 249	A hole in your output shafts is severly weakening the shaft. YOu're removing maybe 40% of the material in one small location making up the bulk of the shaft that is constanly under twisting stain. So now, instead of twisting a yoke, or a shaft, you're going to break a output shaft... and thats definately not good. That's Bad idea #2. The grub screws aren't going anywhere if you have good allen driver, and use lots of locktite. The Jato shafts is good, but drilling.... ahh, no.

10-31-2007, 06:06 PM	#14
Barillms Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Steubenville Posts: 249	Guys, he's talking about super gluing ball bearings to his yokes. Now that's funny.

10-31-2007, 07:44 PM	#16
binaryterror I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit Posts: 3,583	Yeah even a small zip tie is way smaller than that giant bearing. I run a zip tie on the one at the rear axle (only one I popped ever) and still it clears fine.

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