BULLETPROOF your E-Maxx Tranny

[lincpimp]

I took those gears, annealed them and tapped them for 4mm set screws. Then hardened them and used the smaller one as a pinion gear for an 1/8 buggy with a steel center gear. Worked ok, but they did wear more than a rcm pinion. No idea what metal they are made out of, probably not the best stuff you can get. Anyways, I always ysed cut off pieces of hex key to replace the weak azz roll pins. Cut to lenght and then pressed in place with the bench vice.

If someone did not want to well those wheel pins should do, add some green loctite and they will never come out. Might be easier than a weld like that, which turned out very nice t-bro. I weld alot and that is not the easiest thing to do.

I have also used rcm pinion gears as replacements for the input shaft gears, grind a flat on the shaft and use red loctite on the pinion setscrew. I did that when I converted an old emax tranny to single speed with the gmaxx adapter, then modded a revo tranny input shaft so that I could use the revo spec slipper setup and mod1 mgt spurs. The old emaxx tranny internals are mod1, so you can replace the top gears with mod1 pinions.