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02-03-2014, 04:00 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Central
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|  Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using a metal axle housing versus a plastic axle housing on a crawler?
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02-03-2014, 09:17 AM
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| Pebble Pounder  Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Stockton
Posts: 114
| Re: Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
Weight,cost,looks
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02-03-2014, 01:56 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the woods
Posts: 1,155
| Re: Metal or Plastic Axle Housings? Quote:
agree with weight,cost and looks. going scale?metal.cost not a factor?metal.comp?metal for weight down low. | |
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02-03-2014, 02:23 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tri-cities, WA
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| Re: Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
Metal looks sweet most of the time but it doesn't crawl as well since it gets gouged by rocks which halts progress. Alloy is tougher to bash with to a degree but if you really go full retard it will bend and become a paper weight where plastic will deflect or sheer.
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02-03-2014, 02:24 PM
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| Scale Detail Engineering Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Turtle Island
Posts: 5,573
| Re: Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
Plastic FTW!
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02-03-2014, 02:31 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Victoira,BC
Posts: 229
| Re: Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
depends if your mall crawling or actual trail crawling plastic slides over rocks much nicer. |
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02-04-2014, 08:20 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Knoxville
Posts: 131
| Re: Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
What about plastic housings with Beef Tubes? Do the Beef Tubes actually prevent the plastic housings from breaking, or do they tend to stress the part of the plastic housing at the end of the metal tube?
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02-04-2014, 09:26 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: East Texas
Posts: 870
| Re: Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
Plastic housing with full with toobs is probably the best function wise. Lower cost, great strength and less resistance on the rocks. That said I'm a sucker for aluminum and big power on my fun rigs. But my comp sporty rolls with plastic and toobs  don't worry bout a weak spot with the toobs they really stiffen it all up
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