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12-27-2005, 10:40 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Pollock pines
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|  X factor help
Trying something different, building an X factor. Looking for suggestions on wheel base, any mods that can be done to make the axels more durable, or any other helpful X factor info.
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12-28-2005, 04:46 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: san jose
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17inch wheelbase it works great.txt tranny and a gd-600 on tranny great set up.
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12-28-2005, 10:08 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2004 Location: DFW, Texas
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Agreed, 17" wheelbase will work great. Other than that, make sure to use red loctite on the grub screws for the couplers holding the diffs to the axle shafts. Red may seem excessive but I've found the grub screws still break loose.  Build some custom servo mounts b/c the stock ones are junk and kill your clearance. Use BFT pinions or savage pinions and you can mount revo shafts easily or just drill the stock ones. Whichever pinion you go with make sure to SHIM YOUR DIFFS!!! There's plenty of info on xfactor axles so don't be afraid to search  Good luck.
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12-28-2005, 01:31 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Pollock pines
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This is my first shaft so I'm starting from scratch. X-factor axles looked like a good start for axles. Which is the best way to go for the trans, I've got txt & e-maxx. I also have a set of 4 to 1 reductions and am thinking of trying 2 motors & maybe cut kongs for tires.
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12-28-2005, 03:02 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2004 Location: DFW, Texas
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Either tranny will work great. Both are tough enough for the job. The only real reason to use a emaxx tranny is if you want to utilize it's shift on the fly 2speed....that and maybe different mounting options with the 2 different tranny's. You can lock out the emaxx in either first or second so that may also give you more gearing options but then again the same thing can be done with spur/pinion changes. Also there is some slop in the emaxx tranny if you don't lock it out. My xfactor used alot of the same stuff you're talking about. Go to my profile and search my posts. You should come across some helpful stuff. | |
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12-28-2005, 07:05 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Pollock pines
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Thare Is A Lot Of Good Info Thanks For The Help Chad
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12-28-2005, 08:00 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: san jose
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hey rockwalker the txt tranny work very very good with the xfactor axles. i have built two of these rig.and the tranny is tuff.if you like to see tranny in one of my truckes pm me and ill send you pic. Richard |
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12-30-2005, 06:33 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: VICE PRESIDENT of clodtalk
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hi, i am in the middle of a trade involving my rc18mt for a nitro x-factor. i want to build a crawler so i thought it would be a good starting point. electric is the way to go? will it be hard to convert? any help of info would be great, or any precautions i should take before trading would be helpful also. thanks, cam.
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01-17-2006, 05:56 PM
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yep! pic tommorow!
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