Driveshaft repalcement

[timeout]

After countless hours of hard abuse on my Scorpion, I finally broke the rear plastic driveshaft.The front one is fine.Is there a replacement, other than the stock drive shaft?The reason I'm asking is because there is a Hobby-town not far from where I live, that carries tons of Traxxas parts.Instead of ordering one little part, I thought maybe a Traxxas part might fit.
If the Traxxas part will work, a part# would be great, so I can call them and see if they have it in stock .

regards jimmy.p."thumbsup"

 

[TSK]

After countless hours of hard abuse on my Scorpion, I finally broke the rear plastic driveshaft.The front one is fine.Is there a replacement, other than the stock drive shaft?The reason I'm asking is because there is a Hobby-town not far from where I live, that carries tons of Traxxas parts.Instead of ordering one little part, I thought maybe a Traxxas part might fit.
If the Traxxas part will work, a part# would be great, so I can call them and see if they have it in stock .

regards jimmy.p."thumbsup"

You'll want to use p/n: TRX1953 rustler/stampede/slash half-shaft pro pack. Comes with enough to do 6 sets. It's alot stronger material than the stock axial piece, and you can use the original drive shaft yoke with it"thumbsup"

 

[timeout]

wow! I thank you sir.

jimmy.p.

 

[Brett B.]

Traxxas shaft's are the way to go. I broke my rear shaft with in 5 min's of the first crawl:-( but my LHS had traxxas shafts and i have been beating them for a month or or better no problem's yeat"thumbsup"

 

[The1nonlyJ]

Not wanting to butt in here, but i too am a noob too the axial and im aware that the traxxas shafts are a good alternative but with the TRX1953pack there are only the shafts. Do the UJ metal parts from the axial shafts fit these?

 

[2500hdon37s]

Not wanting to butt in here, but i too am a noob too the axial and im aware that the traxxas shafts are a good alternative but with the TRX1953pack there are only the shafts. Do the UJ metal parts from the axial shafts fit these?

sure do!

 

[DRCMAN]

Yes "thumbsup"

 

[Greatscott]

Traxxas shafts are half the price too "thumbsup". I run Traxxas Axels with rings on the U's and still pop one off once in a while. I've thought about upgrading to stronger drive shafts, but I like having a built-in, easy to fix, and low-cost weak point in my drive train.

 

[ncgamedog]

hate to drag up an old thread...but hey I searched :mrgreen:
I just have a quick question on this topic...
If I get these, are they a little longer than stock?

I just added bent links and a trans cross member that moves the lower links to the inside of the frame. I have the wheel base extended to the max on a stock axial chassis. Now my drive shafts are too short. I wouldnt mind moving the front back a little, but the new X-member only allows placement in the first hole for the lowers on the chassis side. I popped the front shaft last time out on the trans side yolk. I put it back together and got some of those aluminum rings, but now they are too short.

Question #2, Will these axial alum driveshaft rings work on the Traxxas shafts?

thanks -J

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

You can use the old style TMaxx driveshafts and yokes with 5mm outputs. With a little modification they are nearly unbreakable.

 

[ncgamedog]

Yes but are they Longer than the stock axial ones?

and will the aluminum rings fit them?

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

Yes but are they Longer than the stock axial ones?

and will the aluminum rings fit them?

Yes they're longer, and you won't need the rings. They are waaaaay beefier than the Axials.

 

[ncgamedog]

cool thanks man!

Do you think hobby town would have them? I am trying to go run tomorrow.

The T-maxx shafts are different than the ones in this thread, right? the 1953 pack?

thanks again for your help
-J

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

Hobbytown should have them. Not sure of the part numbers...shafts in one package, yokes in another.

They are two sizes of old style yokes...one fits 6mm outputs and the other fits 5mm. You want the smaller size.

 

[jagg]

cool thanks man!

Do you think hobby town would have them? I am trying to go run tomorrow.

The T-maxx shafts are different than the ones in this thread, right? the 1953 pack?

thanks again for your help
-J

The shafts are Traxxas P/N 1953 and the Steel yokes are 4628X.

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

The shafts are Traxxas P/N 1953 and the Steel yokes are 4628X.

Those are for the Slash, I'm talking about TMaxx shafts.

 

[racerfred]

This is what I did when I broke my shaft, wait that didn't sound right! :lmao:

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107912&highlight=t+maxx+shafts

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

I'm going to go ahead and say that the 5mm TMaxx yokes suck. I twisted one right off of the front trans output today. Set screws were still in place and weren't backed out...somehow it just worked its way off. I guess I'm going to go back to the yoke setup that racerfred offered up...

This is what I did when I broke my shaft, wait that didn't sound right! :lmao:

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107912&highlight=t+maxx+shafts