New Flux diffs in a few weeks !

[Gdot]

Originally Posted by Slowkrawl

Hopefully they are going the right direction with it. I broke both the front and rear pinion gears in my diffs and have since gone to the nitro pinion's with an added shim. I am kind of seeing how much abuse they will take so I have been doing standing backflips pretty much as much as possible haha. They have been holding up for a while now. I think the teeth on the stock diffs are TOO hard and just shear right off.

did the same nitro pinion thing on my flux stuff and bingo, no more broken diffs. since I fixed the diff pinions, I've flew apart 3 trans gears.. diffs perfect. That's better.

So are you all saying the new trans gear will change the internal gearing? runs on the other gear in the trans or what??

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by Gdot

did the same nitro pinion thing on my flux stuff and bingo, no more broken diffs. since I fixed the diff pinions, I've flew apart 3 trans gears.. diffs perfect. That's better.

So are you all saying the new trans gear will change the internal gearing? runs on the other gear in the trans or what??

The idler now has less teeth, dropping the FDR.

Interesting bit on the flux diff vs nitro pinions..

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by Slowkrawl

Hopefully they are going the right direction with it. I broke both the front and rear pinion gears in my diffs and have since gone to the nitro pinion's with an added shim. I am kind of seeing how much abuse they will take so I have been doing standing backflips pretty much as much as possible haha. They have been holding up for a while now. I think the teeth on the stock diffs are TOO hard and just shear right off.

Originally Posted by Gdot

did the same nitro pinion thing on my flux stuff and bingo, no more broken diffs. since I fixed the diff pinions, I've flew apart 3 trans gears.. diffs perfect. That's better.

So are you all saying the new trans gear will change the internal gearing? runs on the other gear in the trans or what??

What part number are you guys putting in there? From what I could find, the Flux supposedly had the "good" parts in the diffs - but being new to HPI shopping, I could have overlooked it somewhere......

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by Finnster

The idler now has less teeth, dropping the FDR.

Interesting bit on the flux diff vs nitro pinions..

If they are only changing one gear in the tranny the case must also be different. If the idler has less teeth it will be smaller in diameter and it will need to be placed closer to the gear it meshes with in order to work correctly...

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

If they are only changing one gear in the tranny the case must also be different. If the idler has less teeth it will be smaller in diameter and it will need to be placed closer to the gear it meshes with in order to work correctly...

Where's that "DUH" emoticon.....guess I'll just use this one......

(meaning Linc must be the only sober one here......)

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

If they are only changing one gear in the tranny the case must also be different. If the idler has less teeth it will be smaller in diameter and it will need to be placed closer to the gear it meshes with in order to work correctly...

The flux has the two speed pinion on the input shaft right? I was assuming they were going to use the 2nd gear pinion (being larger) and just place the idler differently on the shaft.

Of course I was purely speculating. Seems easier than making a new case.


Edit: Where's my brew JT?.... lol

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by Finnster

Edit: Where's my brew JT?.... lol

uhhhhhh - was that yours......?!?!?

Seriously, maybe I should start a new thread to ask this question:
I replaced my front and rear bumper mounts last night, and as I was doing so, it looked to me like it would be quite beneficial, and not very complicated to come up with a better means of retaining the hinge pins, and a better bumper mount (or possibly eliminate the bumper altogether).

Being new to HPI, are there any aftermarket products that already do this?

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

uhhhhhh - was that yours......?!?!?

Seriously, maybe I should start a new thread to ask this question:
I replaced my front and rear bumper mounts last night, and as I was doing so, it looked to me like it would be quite beneficial, and not very complicated to come up with a better means of retaining the hinge pins, and a better bumper mount (or possibly eliminate the bumper altogether).

Being new to HPI, are there any aftermarket products that already do this?

What exactly is the problem?

The only prob I had was upper hingepins backing out as the upper bumper mount can rotate and not hold the pins in. I put zip ties around the two bumper mounts so they can't move apart from ea other, while the clips can still be pulled off and the bumper mounts pulled out to get to the hingepins and bulkhead screws to remove the diffs.

Has your bumper mount broke then, or ripped out the clips (as NC's soln seems to imply)?

[JThiessen]

I broke the screws off that attach the bumper to the bumper mount - did it on both front and rear. And in that same time frame I snapped the left rear drive cup in half. And judging by the way the plastic is chewed up around the lower hinge pin "stop" area there is a lot of movement in those parts.
I was just curious if there were any aftermarket systems for it. The first thing I always did with my Traxxas rigs was to rip off the bumpers - cant really do that with the Savage, it appears - unless there is an aftermarket hinge pin retention system that revises the function of the upper hinge pin retainer/bumper mount.

Obviously, I must have hit hard a couple times to do it. And that flex is probably very important to absorb the impact and not drive it further into the truck. Given the speed and weight of this truck (and my driving), I would probably be smart to keep the bumper system.