How often do you break?

[K'sToy]

I was wondering how often it is that a crawler would break down on the trail. U-joint failure, axle breaking, stripped pinions, what can go wrong, and how often does it occur. What breaks the most often? Are rollovers really hard on the rigs? Thanks guys!

 

[bigred]

i hardly ever break,as for roll overs i'de say there not as bad as the 1:1 world

 

[EeePee]

Servos. Or use servo savers.

Roll overs are hard on the fatty heavy rigs. Not so much on the lightweights.

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

rod ends. screws if you dont use locktight somewhere. sliders / shafts if your rig is overpowered. servos if you dont get strong ones. its a learning process about where the weakest link is. i would rather my slipper slip than shaft break. i would rather a shaft break than a tranny gear bust.

 

[JakeTheAlligatorMan]

Check out this "VIDEO" After rolling down Rock hills all day "Toyofast" broke a Servo case at about 4 mins into vid. No other breakage that day that I recall.

 

[JakeTheAlligatorMan]

Oh wait.... I guess I was out a Toyota Hardbody that day

 

[Maxx4life]

thats quite a fall jake, just imagine if there wasn't a body on that rig :shock: . nice place to crawl to.

the stuff that breaks on my rig is the lose stuff, i.e. nut came lose on the shock mount, and when i roll the car it breaks. always cheak for lose stuff ;-) .

colin

 

[AdamF]

I break axle tubes, c-hubs, and knuckles on my clod more often than I'd like. It's not the rollovers that gets me, it's the hard hits to rocks after throwing some wheelspeed at it.

 

[Plays_with_Toys]

I guess I've been lucky. I have broken link ends, and bent smaller rods, but otherwise no breakage. My rig actually breaks more when I work on it... Usually at the end of the day the truck is in billions of pieces ready for changes, when it was whole to begin with. :lol:

 

[Reflection]

The only things I've broke are:

2 stripped servo's
2 stripped main gears in my GD600 reduction
1 stripped spur gear
1 million sliders

I've had real good luck with my Twin axles. I've been spinning Kongs on them hard since I pulled them out of the box and ain't broke the first thing. All I upgraded was the ring and pinion,I replaced the factory gears with hardend steel gears. The Twin tranny also has held up real well for me,other than the factory spur everythings like new. I used to go through sliders like crazy,normally 2 or 3 per run. I've now got steel driveshafts and they just laugh at me when I get rough with it.

Rollovers don't seem to hurt the thing much other than a few scratches here and there. I'd say the worst was a fall down a set of steps roughly 5' tall and then a 3' verticle ledge landing on it's top. Neither one hurt the truck any,other than a small crack in the body. I really don't care about the bodies much,I've not owned one yet that I've got really attached to or cared much for.

 

[egdinger]

The only time i break is wannabedigler comes over ;-)

 

[CSR]

Servos!

At the UROC event in Indiana I rolled my truck several times down 20ft+ hills. I went thru 4 servos and bent a stub axle in two days of crawling.

 

[Reflection]

Servos!

At the UROC event in Indiana I rolled my truck several times down 20ft+ hills. I went thru 4 servos and bent a stub axle in two days of crawling.

I don't know why you broke :? :lol: :lol:

 

[CustomCrawler]

Lets see what I've broken on my TLT...

Many bent links
4 bent shock shafts
1 stripped ring and pinion
1 roll bar
7 stripped wheel hexes
1 bent chassis
0 sliders
5-10 yokes
0 axle shafts

 

[TwistedCreations]

i hardly break, but when i do, it's usually a link(suspension) or a servo that crapped out. have broke a few of the cheaper CVD's but that's it

 

[BlackSheep]

So far I've broken:

1 servo
1 steering link (bent it)
1 lower control arm (bent it)
1 differential

I've been rc crawl'n for about 2 months in my back yard. Like my 1:1 I tend to be a little rough on things.

 

[SR5Dave]

Good thread for reference: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=626

 

[bulletproofcustoms]

Well here go a list :evil:

stripped Counter gears
Stripped diff gears
broken axle tubes
cracked gear caseings
and the worst I just broke my second drive shaft today doing some crawling at home :evil: at $11.00 a drive shaft this **** aint cheap

I wish someone would come out with a direct replacement, id definately pay some big bukks for for some bulletproof drive shafts ;-)

Just an idea ;-)

 

[Reflection]

at $11.00 a drive shaft this **** aint cheap

:roll: Common now,you could probly dig that much change out of the sofa :lol:

I wish someone would come out with a direct replacement, id definately pay some big bukks for for some bulletproof drive shafts ;-)

Just an idea ;-)

Build them yourself,easy enough and bulletproof,well,almost. They won't break in this application anyway.

 

[bulletproofcustoms]

Maybe not the sofa, I have an old liquor bottle full of spare change :mrgreen:

I think I was more pissed off that I have to take apart the whole rear gearcasing more then anything, I ordered some bearings so if they ever come in ill change it out then, luckly when I broke my first drive shaft I ordered a spare one at the same time

and as for building my own well remember I have a clod so it's not exactly an easy task, thou I was thinking about putting some welds on the new shafts were they allways break :roll: who knows if that will work