Optional Brake Disks? - RC-Monster Forums

jhautz · 04.02.2009, 02:20 PM

Just about every different brand had different shape outdrives for the brake disks. They arent standard shapes.

Ryu James · 04.02.2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jhautz

Just about every different brand had different shape outdrives for the brake disks. They arent standard shapes.

oh ok, i thought they were all the same. i use the same discs for my AE, Mugen and Losi and they all fit the same. i just figured there was like one popular main shape that was used by most of the manufacturers. i am pretty sure my slipper. will be here today so i will try some different thigns to work.

Ryu James · 08:53 PM

AE, Mugen, and losi outdrives do not fit in the slipperential. i got mine yesterday and it is quite the engineering feat. well actually the AE outdrives look identical but the hole location on the outdrive for the pin to go through is in a slightly different location on the slipper. outdrives and so when i tried to use the AE outdrives you cant get the pin thru. actually funny thing is it works on one side of the slipperential but not on the other so i guess technically i could have run just a single brake disc going this route. i decided to use my dremel and just make some brake discs which worked fine but then the slipperential didnt fit in my RC8T. the center diff top plate hits the adjusting ring about 1/8" before the top plate rests on the mounts so this didnt work. i looked at just cutting out a large hole in my carbon top plate to make it work but the size of the RC8T top plate is such that doing this would leave a very small amount of carbon for the sides of the top plate, if any at all, and i worry this will weaken the top plate too much to work.

does anyone have a solution to all this? has the slipperential been used in a RC8T with mech. brakes? what vehicles has it been used with a mech. brake setup? it appears that this will be the case with other vehicles too cuz my Mugen center diff top plate sits at the same height and the losi center diff setup is much shorter than the slipperential diff. just wondering what vehicles are others using where this is just a "drop in" fit? i really want to get this to work. in fact, it seemed the slipperential was probably gonna be easiest to make work with the RC8T so my plan was to just make all my other truggies able to use the RC8T center diff mounts and top plate with the slipperential. i figured this would be best since it was mentioned that to use brakes it has to be a brake setup where the linkage runs on top of the center top plate, as opposed to one over, one under. the RC8T has this type of linkage whereas my Mugen and Losi do not.

at this point i am planning to just make a larger top plate out of some carbon i just ordered but i am just wondering if there is any other approach to make this work that i am not seeing.