Grease ?

[BillBergman]

Did you guys grease the telescopic drive shaft and the other external drive train joints as suggested in the manual? Seem that would be a grit magnet causing more wear than just leaving it dry. I did grease all the internal diffs but should I grease the transmission or what about silicon spray or teflon oil?

Finished mine today but waiting on battery and finish painting. I'll post pics when the painting is done.

 

[Dark8ngel]

Yes lightly grease the tranny with a syn grease or some other plastic friendly grease. do not to run with the gears dry.

I lightly oil my cvd's, dirve shafts and all moving/sliding parts. I clean and re-oil them every couple of weeks, but I do not run in really sandy area's tho, but either way it is quick and simple to do for a smooth running rig"thumbsup"

 

[cwazyduck]

I use bar soap on all my gears for lube. I run that on everything from my crawlers, Slash, rally car, and brushless E-Revo. I crawl in some dusty conditions, so I don't lube the driveshaft sliders, but grease the CVD's with synthetic grease.

 

[BillBergman]

Thanks ! soap good idea...... what brand/type soap?

 

[cwazyduck]

I just use a cheap bar of hand soap. If you want your gears to have that fresh smell use Irish Spring, but any bar will do. It seems to give a nice bit of lubrication, but doesn't have that dirt attracting quality of grease or oil.

 

[BillBergman]

hmmmm..... a fresh smelling creeper. That would be nice.

Do you just grind it up and sprinke it into the gear box?

 

[cwazyduck]

I just take the gears and rub them on the bar of soap until you get a nice thin layer of soap on the gears then re-assemble then spin everything by hand to get the soap to even out and get worked into the teeth. After awhile the soap gets a nice "ledge" in it and it gets easier each time you relube the gears. Like I said, I've been using the same bar of soap on my revo and rally car and I relube the gears each time I have them apart, so my bar of soap has some pretty big grooves in it now.

 

[BillBergman]

My creeper is already assembled so soap in the transmission is probably not possible.

 

[cwazyduck]

I guess from my racing days, I regularly dis-assemble everything to inspect and repair stuff. I've had my Creeper since February and its on my bench in pieces for the second time this year since building it. My race truck gets torn down before every big race, so rjght now my crawler is nice that it is a low maintenece machine that gets torn down every two months.

 

[BillBergman]

I wouldn't mind dis-assembling it for inspection if I had ran it for a while but I haven't even ran it yet. I've installed a goat motor/ESC, rear steering, rear remote dif loc. I am waiting on delivery of battery and another dif loc for the front.