Savage Flux Fixed . . . Finally

[brainanator]

I shredded the stock gear in the tranny in a month, then got the hardened option, and slapped a little axle grease on the gears and called it good. Opened it up the other day (6 months later) since I was changing the spur to plastic. I half-expected to find slightly pointed gears (at least showing some wear, like my pinion was....) but they still looked brand new. Wiped them off a little, put some gorilla snawt on them. Will look again in another 6 months or so.
And with offset wheels with the stock rear link is a bad idea. I'd snap those like twigs with offset, but with no offset I haven' had a problem. I will get the rear link eliminator system when funds allow though, as it is obviously better.
Pretty good thread with lots of good ideas though!

But it does sound like you must be running it really hard to get those temps out of a 1520....with my stock setup I couldn't get the motor to break 130F even on the hottest day. Same story with the plastic spur and a slightly larger pinion to compensate for the larger spur. (21T pinion, 47T spur I think). I basically results in a net loss of half a tooth on the pinion side in gearing, but still plenty fast. I also use brakes frequently and everything is fine there.

[JasonB]

Interesting. So far, Freddy, Josh, and Brian have stated having no tranny problems with the known to fail 29T and 32T gears; are any of you running 6S as your main setup?

[josh9mille]

Originally Posted by JasonB

Interesting. So far, Freddy, Josh, and Brian have stated having no tranny problems with the known to fail 29T and 32T gears; are any of you running 6S as your main setup?

I run both 5s and 6s with a full XL conversion (tvp's, tires, and axles)

Originally Posted by JasonB

Interesting. So far, Freddy, Josh, and Brian have stated having no tranny problems with the known to fail 29T and 32T gears; are any of you running 6S as your main setup?

5s and 6s, before the first run i replaced the drive(102514) and pinion(novak 20t) gear to hardened.
i have two and the oldest is 2 year and runned countless of times and still the tranny is good, no wear..

[JasonB]

Must be either quality control or driving style. Any other ideas?

[josh9mille]

Originally Posted by JasonB

Must be either quality control or driving style. Any other ideas?

Do you just hold full throttle and never let go?

[JasonB]

No, but I do have it past 1/2 stick most of the time with multiple bursts of WOT. Generally takes me 20 min to use ~5500 mAh. Lots of high speed runs around the field, back and forth on a gravel drive, around a dirt track, and sometimes in a hilly retention area. No hard jerky starts or backflips, but I do enjoy the occasional wheelie. Have the punch set around 50 percent, and start power on lowest setting. Like I've stated before, the problem disappeared with the oil, but it is strange to me that some have been able to run the same gears dry without issue.

Could be the actual distance driven. Someone who mainly bashes on weekends, would put a small fraction of the mileage on their truck compared to what I subject mine to. It's not the bigger motor either because I started going through gears since the beginning; probably granaded the first set within the first 2 months.