**SCX-10 Gear noise...PLEASE HELP!**

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Hey everyone,
Been awhile since I've been on here but anyway...so, I built a Honcho kit back in 2010 and from day one my truck has had a sloppy noise coming from the pinion/spur gear area....at first I thought it was the motor but I have removed the pinion gear and run the motor by itself and its really quiet, so then my next step: I disconnected the driveshafts from the differentials and it was still pretty quiet so I know it's not the transmission, so now I was unsure...but maybe it was the internals of the axle/gears inside the pumpkin...I decided to tear apart the axles anyway just to clean them and they did have quite a bit of gritty junk in them so I cleaned them and threw some fresh grease on all the metal parts, put it all back together and still had a sloppy sound but upon closer inspection...I discovered that the sound was coming from the the spur/pinion gear area....so...I tried to change the gear mesh between the spur and pinion gears in every possible position from super tight to super loose mesh and it still makes a crappy noise (it was definitely more loud/sloppy sounding the looser the gear mesh)....so my next idea was "maybe if I switch to a different pitch gear set-up..." anybody have any ides? Or am I just too damn picky about my truck sounding nice and not like a piece of junk!? LOL! I have heard Honchos that are very quiet...almost silent and thats what I want mine to sound like! Anyway, thank you very much for reading my thread and any help will be much appreciated!

[Demodude]

I bought mine used and it had a badly worn pinion gear- the sound was awful, especially in reverse. Got a steel pinion and things improved greatly!

[KJ10]

The outputs on my trans had loose screws.

[Postclanker]

Are you running 32pitch or 48
48 would be quieter of course....metal gears ??

If you've checked your mesh, chances are you are a bit too picky...just saying.
I run with a guy that runs 48 pitch gears....he's so quiet....yes, it's nice but quite frankly doesn't bother me. I run 32 pitch for the contact area and putting power to the ground...noisy or not.

It's a truck

[Postclanker]

Are you running 32pitch or 48
48 would be quieter of course....metal gears ??

If you've checked your mesh, chances are you are a bit too picky...just saying.
I run with a guy that runs 48 pitch gears....he's so quiet....yes, it's nice but quite frankly doesn't bother me. I run 32 pitch for the contact area and putting power to the ground...noisy or not.

[lowlow]

like postclanker asked.. both spur and pinion metal? if so.. well hope tha sound dont bother ya too bad ...

[Postclanker]

Sorry for the double post ....couldn't delete one....

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Originally Posted by Postclanker

Are you running 32pitch or 48
48 would be quieter of course....metal gears ??

If you've checked your mesh, chances are you are a bit too picky...just saying.
I run with a guy that runs 48 pitch gears....he's so quiet....yes, it's nice but quite frankly doesn't bother me. I run 32 pitch for the contact area and putting power to the ground...noisy or not.

im running the stock metal pinion and the stock plastic spur gear, 48 pitch

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Originally Posted by Demodude

I bought mine used and it had a badly worn pinion gear- the sound was awful, especially in reverse. Got a steel pinion and things improved greatly!

awesome! thanks man...im gonna have to try that!

[Postclanker]

48 pitch huh....
Well, there's going to be some noise no matter what you run...do you have grease in the tranny??? Have you inspected those gears ?

Try changing the spur and pinion....just put new ones in

[ur4skin]

I actually have a similar problem, i bought mine new and assembled it as per booklet, at first I had to little grease in the diffs (after first run it became quite noisy so I redid them with lots of grease. Without the motor connected the chassis is dead quiet, as soon as i connect the motor it gets noisy and it doesn't matter how far or close the motor is to the spur gear.....I'm assuming its just motor noise

[DrDiff952]

Look at a couple of things. First off is it the stock motor mount plate? Stock Transmission case?

I run steel 32 pitch pinion and Steel Spur. I have a Super Shafty Ultimate Motor Mount Plate and a Vanquish transmission box. Very Quite, nothing in the transmission flexes.