My e-revo brushless edition build

I saw you were asking about the mip axles well I have gone through a lot of axles thats for sure. I blew through the stocks in no time I got a set of traxxas axles and before I knew about buying the larger cups I could not keep them in my eRevo. So I got another set of axles off of flea bay from china made by bestRC they didn't even last through a full set of batts at 6s. So after spending way to much money on axles and not really getting any help I got the MIPs there are a very nice product but I don not think they did much fitment testing on the eRevo. They went together very easy and are a very strong product! The things I do not like about them is the fit on the spindles. Where the shaft goes into the bearing it the shoulder of the shaft doesn't even cover the whole bearing and considering the fact the the bearing isn't very wide I was a little unhappy. I was willing to over look that but when I put on the wheel adapters there was slop in the spindle that would let the shaft slide back and forth to much for me. I ended up shimming it to make them work and to tighten up the play in the front shaft. If you are interested I can take some photos of the issues I am talking about. The bad thing is that these axles set me back around 80 bucks and like you I don't mind paying the money for a well built product I just don't like spending that money on something I have to change to make it work. By the way thanks for all of this info!!! You have helped me so much and have done a ton of leg work that I wont have to do so I thank you.

[mistercrash]

Remember my little experiment in post #655? I spent a couple hours fitting LST XXL CVD shafts on my ERBE. There is still testing to be done, I will test on 6S with a couple of brand new Hyperion 45C/90C 500 mah lipos. The way I installed the shafts makes for a wider track, about ¾’’ wider so to get roughly the same track as before, I could use zero offset wheels. I only have ½’’ offsets so the truck is wiiiiiide.

Here is what I used.
- 4 Losi LST XXL CVD shafts (ebay)
- 4 15X21X4 bearings (Avid)
- 4 8X15X4 bearings (Avid)
- 1 set of RD Racing axles (Been running those since around 2004, same set)
- 1 set of Traxxas 17 mm hexes that have been bored to 8 mm with a 3 mm hole for the pin
2 Losi LST XXL diffs (I’ve been running LST diffs for a long time, details are in my thread)
- I used 2 RC Monster drive cups in the rear and 2 RCBest drive cups in the front, reason is, that’s what I had available. If the RCBest cups fail I will replace them with RC Monster cups.
I had a few 8X15X4 bearings from my LST that were gritty but I still kept them, I cut the outer race and used the inner race for shims behind the hexes.

Here’s the wide truck, either run it like that or use zero offset wheels or if you have the means to drill hardened steel then make a new hole in the right place to reposition the hexes close to the axle carriers.



Pic of the rear.



RC Monster drive cups in the rear



RCBest drive cups in the front



Here’s a close up of the shimming, two bearing inner race with two 0.3 mm shims on each wheel. I think the best way would be to make a new hole to bring the hexes close to the carriers. I will try it like that for now but I’m just worried of what this will do to the outer bearings.



A pic of what I did to pic up the slop of the inner 15X21X4 bearing in the RD Racing axle carrier. The perfect bearing would’ve had a 21”5 mm OD but I don’t think they exist so I put a piece of Gorilla tape around half of the bearing and it fits snug. Time will tell if the tape holds up. If not then I’ll use a shim made of thin metal like brass.



I'll probably find time to try it this weekend if it doesn't rain.