What have you broken on your sawback?

[Reaxion911]

Hey all im going to throw together a trail first aid kit for my sawback and i was wondering what has broken on your guys rigs so i know what to order for partz! Thnx in advance

[jp0160]

Nothing! 25+ hours on my Sawback, did break a zip-tie due to the cold though

[Reaxion911]

Seems to be the general consensus. Im yet to hear of anyone breaking parts

[raceeng18]

Nothing broken. My pinion gear teeth were cut strangely and it was very noisy. I replaced it with a RR 12 tooth pinion.

[Reaxion911]

Well i went for an awesome group rin today and im happy to say the only issues i had was popped a front drivshaft apart which i was able to just put back together. I did not go easy on this truck at all with a titan 12turn on 3s. Aldo performed very well and had the lot impressed with its capablity

[Teedey]

The only drama I have had was the pin came out of the rear tailshaft joint but I just hammered a nail in there and has been sweet ever since,

[Wraith1985]

I have wondered about the Sawback, glad to hear that you guys have had good luck with it.

[raceeng18]

My Junfac carbon steel drive shafts arrived today. They will be installed tomorrow.

[Reaxion911]

Pin on one of the front dogbones wiggled out causing it to bind up bending the head of the dogbone. I then snapped it off trying to straighten it back. Used an old exceed axle i had in the parts bin. Had to cut it down a little but is in place running smooth again.

[Reaxion911]

Broke a rear leaf right behind the mount on the axle. Used a pull cord spring and built a couple new ones as my lhs supplier cant get stock replacments yet

[dots36]

Dog bone snapped off after 15 minutes of running it in the snow. Running a holmes hobbies 27 turn on 2 cells. Not real happy. Ordered upgraded cva's

[jp0160]

Originally Posted by dots36

Dog bone snapped off after 15 minutes of running it in the snow. Running a holmes hobbies 27 turn on 2 cells. Not real happy. Ordered upgraded cva's

Wow, first real break I've heard of. Maybe a faulty part? Any pics?

[raceeng18]

Originally Posted by dots36

Dog bone snapped off after 15 minutes of running it in the snow. Running a holmes hobbies 27 turn on 2 cells. Not real happy. Ordered upgraded cva's

When I pulled mine out to install the cva's, they showed a lot of wear for the few hours I had on my Sawback. Inferior metal and heat treat in my opinion.

[neobaja]

I'm running the CVA setup, supposed to get a better turning circle but I don't know as I installed them from new.

[kunas]

haven't broken anything yet, I put cvds in it before running it im fairly impressed with the SB capabilities so far

[Tinrabbit]

Did the pinion gear swap yesterday just as race18 had done earlier to help quiet down some of the transfer case chatter. So far just a bent leafspring & the pinion but haven't actually broken anything yet.

[Chief]

I had the set screw on the driveshaft yoke back out, and the pin fell out. A new pin and some more loctite took care of the problem. Everything else is solid.

[Chesebro]

Its though!!!!

I accidentally rammed my buddies scx10 and I ripped his body with my front bumper..


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[Sam117]

Just a thought. Being as this is direct drive(no slipper) having a plastic drive line joint separate or drop a pin is actually quite nice. Upgrading to the cvds will remove this simple failure point and now the transmission/driveline/and diff are going to take the grunt of the torque. In my book, I'll repair driveshafts all day long opposed to replacing a ring and pinion or trans gears. Again, just a thought.

[jp0160]

I may as well post an update, another 4 hours of hard trail running today and I still haven't broken a thing.. That brings me up to about 60 hours on this rig!