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04-04-2019, 03:07 PM | #21 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Detroit
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
I've never had an issue using marine grease or the TLR grey grease that came with my racing kits. Still using the stock brushed motor?
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04-04-2019, 07:25 PM | #22 | |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Northeast
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted Quote:
Yes, still the stock brushed motor. | |
04-04-2019, 09:28 PM | #23 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Detroit
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
Stock motor is probably your issue. Ive used one once. Brushed motors in these are never reliable. If you want a good setup.. I recomend the castle mamba micro x crawler sensored esc paired with a trinity 13.5 (of any flavor). The punisher might be the cheapest new. You can also look for used 13.5's from your local racing group if you have one. Sent from my LGMP260 using Tapatalk |
04-05-2019, 08:03 AM | #24 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Ridgecrest, CA
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
What grease you use in the diffs is not that critical. I use a common synthetic chassis lube found in the small tubes at the auto parts store. I am still using the same worms after 7-years. I would disagree that brushed motors are never reliable. I have been using the same Holmes brushed motor for about 4-years running on 3S. The others guys I crawl with also continue to use brushed motors. My son switched to a brushless sensored motor in his LNC and feels that he had better low speed throttle control with the brushed motor.
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04-05-2019, 11:30 AM | #25 | ||
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Northeast
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted Quote:
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One mod I keep seeing is about drilling a hole in the axles to be able to keep applying grease to worms as needed. What I'm not seeing is what size hole to drill and then what size grub screw to plug it with. Any of you guys know what I'll need to perform this mod? Last edited by RCTom; 04-05-2019 at 11:34 AM. | ||
04-05-2019, 03:26 PM | #26 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Ridgecrest, CA
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
I used 4-40 set screws about 1/8-in long. A 3/32" drill bit should work fine. I also drilled both sides of the diffs and pump the grease in until clean grease is coming out the other hole. When I was crawling regularly I greased the diffs about every two months. Takes about 15-minutes.
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04-11-2019, 05:44 PM | #27 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: East brady
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
Whatever size you have a small set screw in I used a 3 mm set cause that’s what I had. I hit it with a couple pumps every once in a while . I have no set schedule for it basically the more you use the rig the more grease you’ll need to apply. And the grease I just use the cheap stuff I had laying around. Brad-pen bearing grease non synthetic and I use an air tool grease gun to pump it in but a syringe would work too I just don’t have anything like that laying around. Just make sure you put the screw on the top half , if you put it on the bottom it will get all banged up and you’ll never get it out.
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04-17-2019, 12:18 PM | #28 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Delano
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
Great info on wheel weights on this page .Thanks
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04-22-2019, 05:42 AM | #29 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Delano
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
Wrapped my rims with solder wire today . Going to test it out.
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04-22-2019, 06:47 AM | #30 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: East brady
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
Solder works good too . It’s about double the cost of fishing weight lead, but if you can’t find it solder is fine
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12-15-2019, 08:14 PM | #31 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Los Angeles
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| Re: More weight to keep Night Crawler SE planted
For optimal climbing and stability add a lot of weight to your wheels and lower the CG. Each of my front tires weighs 18 oz. and my rears are 10 oz. each. Where's your battery located? Hopefully not in the tray above the motor. A small battery located on the front lower arms lowers the CG a lot. Ditch the top tray and mount the ESC on top of the rear axle to further lower the CG.
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01-04-2021, 07:34 PM | #32 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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How did those Hyrax ended up working for you? I’m resurrecting my Comp and Night Crawlers and both will need some fresh, sticky rubber. | |
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