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08-22-2019, 01:44 PM | #1 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Merrill, WI
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| Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears.
Got my new Axle set. Looks like it should work well and seems to be really nice quality. Sent from my Vivo XI+ using Tapatalk |
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08-22-2019, 01:55 PM | #2 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: UK
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears.
I suspect they made the CVD ball smaller for these to be machinable. Can't you compare old and new shafts please?
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08-22-2019, 02:09 PM | #3 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Land of burning couches
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears.
You can go ahead and throw those in the umg before it hits the post office buddy, thanks so much |
08-22-2019, 02:25 PM | #4 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Hickory,NC
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears.
Why only 2 holes for the pin? Why not 2 extra holes just in case? I've seen other rc vehicles that put 4 or 6 holes in stub axles. Example; Tekno TKR6853 If it were to wear the hole out at least you could use the extra holes to tighten it back up. |
08-22-2019, 02:34 PM | #5 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Merrill, WI
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears. Quote:
I'm converting to brushless so we'll see how it goes. Sent from my Vivo XI+ using Tapatalk | |
08-22-2019, 04:09 PM | #6 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Merrill, WI
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears. |
08-22-2019, 06:32 PM | #7 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Hickory,NC
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears.
Pulling my brushless set up out. I just put it in broke both stock portal gears and split the rear axle case and the rear portal cover. I believe I'm done with the cat. I can't run the cat like my axial rigs. Tekno does it in their stub axles. I just thought it would save money in the long run. |
08-22-2019, 09:42 PM | #8 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Wichita
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears.
Interested to see how those hardened gears work out. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk |
08-23-2019, 05:39 AM | #9 | |
RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: UK
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears. Quote:
When I did the CAD model for machined input gears there was no way it would be strong enough with the stock CVD ball due to the ball being very deep into the gear. I abandoned the project. So they had to make it smaller for it to work. Hopefully they haven't just moved the weak spot from the gear to the CVD ball. I'm assuming the new material they are using will mitigate that. | |
08-23-2019, 05:47 AM | #10 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Merrill, WI
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears. Quote:
I took it out and tried them out powering out of binds etc and they seem durable so far. That's running a 550 21t on 3s. Sent from my Vivo XI+ using Tapatalk | |
08-23-2019, 08:14 AM | #11 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: california under the rock im crawling on
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears. Quote:
i am seeing aluminum axle housings pop up treal is making some and of course redcat has there over priced axle housings personally im waiting for the pot metel axles but probably will just switching to ar44s or ar60s lol im still gona load my rig down with as much aftermarket parts as i can aford in the hopes that there will be some pot metal axles someday Last edited by ferp420; 08-23-2019 at 08:16 AM. | |
09-21-2019, 03:05 PM | #12 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: california under the rock im crawling on
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| Re: Gen 8 Chromoly steel axles and portal gears.
any update on the durabuility of these new shafts and gears
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09-21-2019, 03:09 PM | #13 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Merrill, WI
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