abadk9420
Broke Down Driver
In Memoriam
Well today I ventured a whole hell of a lot further into Folsom Lake to finally find Dotons Point and let me tell you if you don't know where it is you will have a hell of a time finding it. I got lucky and ran across a guy at the very end of Dotons Point who just happened to know where it was that every one goes crawling. So any way after finally getting there I get about half way through my second battery which is actully quite a bit of crawling and I snap off the output shaft on the tranny going to the front wheel drive shaft, so I was like oh well time to go, and time to track down some parts, well it turns out that the only output shaft I can find happens to be a whole set of steel gears from RC4WD and let me tell you these things are beefy, the main gear with the output shaft is one solid chunk of steel that is machined into output shafts and gear all in one. any way here are the pics of todays events.
Another Crappy Video
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a couple of pics of the rocks we were crawling on
Shots of the crawler
and the repacemnt of the output shafts and gears with all steel ones from RC4WD
Front drive shaft hanging down after the output shaft broke
The old gears
The new gears are the lower set
new gears in the tranny
I also found out about a mod from one of the guys out crawling today so I thought I would give it a try here are few pic of my fist attempt at it
Not much holding on the out put shaft as you can see here it is a very poor design
The output shaft is drilled out and in my case I sacraficed a piece of a drill bit that was close in size to what the original output shaft was it is then cross drilled and a cross pin is put in to hold the new output shaft piece in place, when this is placed in the tranny the bearing will hold the cross pin in place keeping it all in place but for added safety a put a small amount of ca on both pieces
the some what finised product
Another Crappy Video
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a couple of pics of the rocks we were crawling on
Shots of the crawler
and the repacemnt of the output shafts and gears with all steel ones from RC4WD
Front drive shaft hanging down after the output shaft broke
The old gears
The new gears are the lower set
new gears in the tranny
I also found out about a mod from one of the guys out crawling today so I thought I would give it a try here are few pic of my fist attempt at it
Not much holding on the out put shaft as you can see here it is a very poor design
The output shaft is drilled out and in my case I sacraficed a piece of a drill bit that was close in size to what the original output shaft was it is then cross drilled and a cross pin is put in to hold the new output shaft piece in place, when this is placed in the tranny the bearing will hold the cross pin in place keeping it all in place but for added safety a put a small amount of ca on both pieces
the some what finised product
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