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03-02-2018, 09:32 PM | #21 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Zagreb, Croatia
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| Re: Why are axial pivot balls garbage? SSD rod ends that are nice and beefy and BACKWARDS. Designed so that the end slides off the ball! |
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03-03-2018, 08:21 AM | #22 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Virginia, Near DC, USA
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| Re: Why are axial pivot balls garbage?
Putting an O-ring over the lip of the pivot ball helps with that problem too. After scrolling through over 1100 RC photographs I've taken, apparently I never took a photo of what I'm talking about. Here's what I mean: If you have trouble with the eyelet popping off the pivot-ball, put the O-ring on the side that the eyelet tends to pop off, and the O-ring will take up slack and prevent the eyelet from popping off. Otherwise, put the O-ring on the side of the pivot-ball that has more room for the O-ring to fit. You might think this will introduce too much resistance to suspension flex, but it doesn't. You can put an O-ring on every single pivot-ball in the suspension and it will still flex properly. The only place you have to be careful is in the steering links, where you may need to only put O-rings on the loosest pivots to take up a reasonable amount of slack without causing the steering links to bind. A drop of oil on each pivot gets rid of most binding that does occur. |
03-03-2018, 08:49 AM | #23 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tri-cities, WA
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03-03-2018, 10:13 AM | #24 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Zagreb, Croatia
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| Re: Why are axial pivot balls garbage?
Thanks, fyrstormer, I didn't think of that (or never cared enough to solve the issue ). I'll be replacing the stock rear upper bendy-links soon so I'll stick some orings around all of the rod ends while it's on the bench.
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03-13-2018, 10:35 PM | #25 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Adirondack Park
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| Re: Why are axial pivot balls garbage?
The RC I do the most is carpet oval, with that said I have a Axial Wraith. The ball ends are a bit floppy. Now my oval car is not loose at all. My wraith was under $400 RTR, my oval was $550 and is just the chassis. From that point the Wraith is a bargain. There is room for some improvement that would not raise the price but a couple dollars, that I would like to see them do.
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