Traxxas Jato drive shaft upgrade !!!!!!!

[Joat]

Ok if you planning to upgrade your driveshafts to the jato's this is what you need .
p/n 5550, comes in a pair
#41-.o96 drill bit or a 2.5mm drill bit.
For the rear drive shaft, carefully pull the blue boot off the female side if you plan on reusing it, it's glued on, remove /cut off the section that was slightly smaller that had the boot on, drill the tamiya yokes to accept the larger traxxas pin, install like you would the originals, reglue the boot to the female drive shaft. for the front same thing except match the length of the originals fully compressed,since the front end will travel enough to fully compress the front draft shaft ,that's the length you need to replicate.
One side note the traxxas pins are a tad short using the traxxas "cross joint" so you prob want to put longer pins on the traxxas cross joint that mates to the tamiya yoke,or carefully heat up the tamiya wokes and pinch them a bit closed- that's what I did
Cost me $9.00 shipped for the traxxas jato shafts, and about 2 minutes to mod and install the rear , maybe 3 minutes to do the front since you have to cut thru the thicker section.

[william g]

I used these yokes drilled to fit 5mm shafts
They cpome with flats inside so must be drilled for the round shafts

[Joat]

Originally Posted by william g

I used these yokes drilled to fit 5mm shafts
They cpome with flats inside so must be drilled for the round shafts

Thanks time to hit up the LHS

[MattH]

Have you guys had the stock shafts fail? I didn't think the plastic yokes would hold up since I'm running a brushless setup, but so far so good.

[Joat]

Originally Posted by MattH

Have you guys had the stock shafts fail? I didn't think the plastic yokes would hold up since I'm running a brushless setup, but so far so good.

Only the rear,not really fail but mine twisted almost 180 degrees.
Tamiya needs to include 2 different drive shaft lengths in the kit, not one.

[william g]

my rear shaft exploded to pieces on friday, so waiting for a jato to arrive I popped in a axial shaft for Sunday's beating. We had a timed obstacle course and I was letting everybody try my CR01. Went through a few battery pack with both me, and novice drivers and only popped the rear shaft once and was able to get it back together for another pack.

Truck held up well with 4 "newbies" who never drove an r/c before and were nailing forward/reverse and running into just about everything. My bronco body is scuffed, body clips bent to hell but other than that no other damage.

[MattH]

I let a young driver give my brushless-powered CR-01 a work out and the drive shafts can, indeed, fail. After beating on it pretty good, he must a serious twist in both front and reat drive shafts. Quick fix and nothing else appears to be broken. Like I said above, I thought the plastic yokes would break, but they are still just fine.

[BroncoMudder]

jato shafts like to twist under brushless power, i twisted both of mine on my axial, but they still work, does anyone know if pede shafts twist easier or harder?

[skywker51]

Originally Posted by BroncoMudder

jato shafts like to twist under brushless power, i twisted both of mine on my axial, but they still work, does anyone know if pede shafts twist easier or harder?

so far mine have held up just fine. I would say harder!

[crawlinmancr01]

I just installed a jato shaft on the rear of my brushless cr-01. I drilled the Tamiya yokes, and put washers in between the pin and the yoke to take up the slack. THe only problem I had was the yokes were binding on the ears!!! Nothing a little dremel tool couldnt handle. Clearanced out the ears and it works sweet. My stock rear shaft twisted like 90 degrees the snapped right there at the yoke on the splined side.