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| View Poll Results: Do you run bearings on you Clod crawler axlea | |||
| YES.....but its not important! |     | 6 | 21.43% |
| YES |    | 10 | 35.71% |
| NO |    | 7 | 25.00% |
| NO.....its not important! |    | 5 | 17.86% |
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10-23-2004, 10:05 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: on a Big Rock
Posts: 7,837
|  Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
I can't think of a good reason either way! I don't |
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10-23-2004, 12:59 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: SW, Connecticut
Posts: 685
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
I don't have a clod but I don't run bearing in my TLT axles. Bearing are for high speed cars. You won't notice much of a difference when going at crawling speeds.
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10-23-2004, 02:35 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Posts: 2,399
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!! I nuked 3 gearsets with the stock bushings. Switched to good bearings, got better run times, less noise and no more nuking gearsets.
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10-23-2004, 07:31 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 12
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
grease the shafts and I think bushings are just fine. No chance of a bearing going bad that way.
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10-24-2004, 10:07 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Spokane WA
Posts: 8
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
I've run bearings in all of my R/C rigs, its cheap insurance. besides it keeps the load of the axle centered in the bearing where as an axle will wear into a bushing causing slop and requiring replacement. What ever you run is your decision, just as long as you run.
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10-25-2004, 09:52 AM
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| PapaGriz Yo   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
Posts: 13,137
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
I have been running my clod axles for the last year with the stock plastic bushings. I have never replaced them. They are starting to show some slop at the outer axles now so they will be replaced soon. Having bushings in the axles has NEVER caused me any problems.  My opinion: if you like spending money, put bearings in from the start. Otherwise, run the bushings until they wear out and then replace them, either with more bushings or bearings. |
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10-25-2004, 10:50 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Posts: 2,399
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10-25-2004, 11:25 AM
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| PapaGriz Yo Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
Posts: 13,137
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No Quote:
I aint sayin therr is anything wrong with putting in bearings (and I love spending money for no good reason), and I aint sain that bushings wont wear out. I just think you can run them if you want.....however, like I said, I have not had any prollems. If I had prollems like you said you had, I might think different too. | |
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10-25-2004, 06:08 PM
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| bendforthebone Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Jamul
Posts: 680
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
i still have bushings from when i got it from the swapmeet. The guy i bought it from got it in 1990. I haven't had probs yet!
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10-25-2004, 08:12 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: SAN DIEGO
Posts: 71
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
was it at the spring valley swapmeet?
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10-25-2004, 10:02 PM
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| bendforthebone Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Jamul
Posts: 680
| Re: Bearings in Clod Crawler axles......Yes or No
no it was at a swap meet called the big 3 at Qualcom stadium during febuarary like 3 years ago
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