YellowRabbit
Newbie
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using a metal axle housing versus a plastic axle housing on a crawler?
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Metal or Plastic Axle Housings?
- Thread starter YellowRabbit
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JK Krawler
Pebble Pounder
Weight,cost,looks
hotrodsonoma
RCC Addict
agree with weight,cost and looks.
going scale?metal.cost not a factor?metal.comp?metal for weight down low.
WHITE-TRASH
I wanna be Dave
Metal looks sweet most of the time but it doesn't crawl as well since it gets gouged by rocks which halts progress. Alloy is tougher to bash with to a degree but if you really go full retard it will bend and become a paper weight where plastic will deflect or sheer.
johnnyh66
Scale Detail Engineering
Plastic FTW!
MCW24
Quarry Creeper
depends if your mall crawling or actual trail crawling
plastic slides over rocks much nicer.
plastic slides over rocks much nicer.
rcntncrawler
Pebble Pounder
What about plastic housings with Beef Tubes? Do the Beef Tubes actually prevent the plastic housings from breaking, or do they tend to stress the part of the plastic housing at the end of the metal tube?
Joshs4x4toyz
Rock Crawler
Plastic housing with full with toobs is probably the best function wise. Lower cost, great strength and less resistance on the rocks. That said I'm a sucker for aluminum and big power on my fun rigs. But my comp sporty rolls with plastic and toobs"thumbsup" don't worry bout a weak spot with the toobs they really stiffen it all up
