Jeremy's RCC Giveaway Wraith Kit Build

[JeremyH]

Chuck, so what piece is longer? Mike measured the female piece for me and it was the same as an AX female.

I have known the MIPs were stronger for some time.....but they are very loud and require a bunch of maintenance....well, as compared to my Maxx shafts.

[rangercat23]

??? The male piece?

[Frankenwheely]

You have a Toyota, you should be used to the squeak.

[JeremyH]

You've got me. I dont have a set of the Wraith shafts....they were sold out everywhere, which is why I went this route.

[JeremyH]

Originally Posted by Frankenwheely

You have a Toyota, you should be used to the squeak.

I wonder if I can add a scale oil leak and a shitty cupholder design....

[rangercat23]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

I wonder if I can add a scale oil leak and a shitty cupholder design....

Get one of those scale oil pans and poke a hole in it

[Frankenwheely]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

You've got me. I dont have a set of the Wraith shafts....they were sold out everywhere, which is why I went this route.

I've been running the AX10 MIPs since day one. No problems.

[JeremyH]

Originally Posted by rangercat23

Get one of those scale oil pans and poke a hole in it

The other day I saw a truck flying down the freeway puking oil out of the pan.....hazards on........still in the fast lane.

[rcmedic]

Go to ace, or sears hardwear, and get graphite lube, (keep your comments clean..) i like the liquid over the paste because the liquid dries. Drop a good amount of it in your mip yolks rotate them very slowly, and let it dry for a day. Mine have never squeaked with this method.

[JeremyH]

I use a dry lube on them.

[rcmedic]

Thats why. Get rid of that garbage and go get some graphite

[JeremyH]

That stuff works well on axleshafts.....so it should work here too. Plus it was free and it smells like coconuts.

I like coconuts.

[rcmedic]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

That stuff works well on axleshafts.....so it should work here too. Plus it was free and it smells like coconuts.

I like coconuts.

Try the graphite. You won't hear them ever.

[Natedog]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

That stuff works well on axleshafts.....so it should work here too. Plus it was free and it smells like coconuts.

I like coconuts.

Nuts...lol... TriFlow works pretty well for me, just wipe it off afterwards as it can attract dirt.

[Calderwood]

I have a can of chain wax from my last Banshee that I have been think about trying.

[rangercat23]

I pull the dipstick out of my 1:1 and put some drops of good old used motor oil on the shafts when I show up to drive the Wraith!!!

[Agama]

I've been using Moble One synthetic grease. Seems to be working well.

[JeremyH]

I was finally able to get rid of the sloppy lockers that barely engaged the tang of my stock universal's....I picked up a set of the GripFab lockers. These things are nice! 5mm set screw covers the tang nicely!

Here you can see how little of the tang was covered by the old set screw:


The new GF locker:


Here you can see that the tang engagement is almost the complete diameter of the set screw:


And while working on getting this truck ready for the G6 in Prescott, I noticed one of my Blue Monkey links was slightly tweaked:



I put on some old Lunsford lower LCC links that I had. Should be good for now.

[ROWDY RACING]

What kind of locker was the old one that did'nt engage your stock unis?

[JeremyH]