jdeadman

iTrader: (41)

You want to slow the side to side movement without changing your pack characteristics. Slowing the side to side speed helps to keep car from rotating as fast for those sudden changes in direction

gooba

iTrader: (5)

Ahhh ok thats makes sense

gooba

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Thought id show off my tc4 this morning.


Shes a little battle damaged but shes still wicked fast

Aaron P

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Should the driveshaft on a TC4 be a VERY TIGHT fit into the front drive cup?

I've just picked up a heavily used TC4, and I found this issue while going thru it.

Fit into the rear cup seems perfect...slides right in like it should. It takes quite a bit of effort to get it into the front cup at all. The ball on the end of the shaft is bigger than the drive cup and the cup spreads when you force the shaft in and there's no free movement.

Could someone have put an incorrect replacement cup on at some point?

gooba

iTrader: (5)

Yes its sounds like the cup is wrong. However there is an off chance that you have a Hardcore racing shaft and if I remember right you had to use their drive cups. Sadly Hardcore has gone out of the RC buisness so you'd have to swap put all the parts but more than likely you just have a wrong cup.

Aaron P

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Thank you.

I'll start with new cups. Is there anything that identifies a stock vs aftermarket shaft?

IndyRC_Racer

iTrader: (9)

The TC3 drive shafts have a larger pin on the ends and require a different input cup. This may be your issue. AE sold blue aluminum drive shafts specifically for the TC3 or TC4.

Luckily if that is the case, the input cups are relatively cheap.

Here is a link on Associated's website for manuals in case you want to look up part numbers (http://www.teamassociated.com/manuals/)

TC3 input cup - part #3917 (http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXPA01&P=7)
TC4 input cup - part #31019 (http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXHZZ0&P=7)

Aaron P

iTrader: (3)

Ah, thank you. After further examination it does appear i have a tc3 drive shaft and rear cup.

RotorTruck

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Can I use Associated TC4 springs with the SpecR R1 metal shocks Ray? Or do I have to use SpecR or Tamiya springs?

Is there anything special needed to mount these shocks on a TC4 ?

gooba

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Has anyone mounted a protoform camaro on their tc4? I need a new USGT body and since noone makes a 190mm mustang I'm looking at the camaro but I know it has a huge nose and splitter so I want to know if it fits ok without hacking it to bits(I already have longer body posts btw)

Invasion

Did you get the Camaro body to fit, as I was thinking of getting one too !

gooba

iTrader: (5)

I havent tried but several guys over in the USGT thread said it should mount just fine. I think i'm going with an HPI viper to be different

DBM

I briefly test fitted one of my spec-r shocks on my tc4 yesterday. The length is the same as the tc4 stock units, but the ball stud diameter is incorrect. Iirc, the tc4 ball stud diameter is 4.3mm, and the spec-r ball diameter is 4.7mm. My plan is to just use spec-r ball studs.

I didn't compare the spring dimensions between the two, but I'll do that tonight.

bertrandsv87

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Those are good shocks....

Ray k

iTrader: (47)

You can use Tamiya or AE springs they work fine . I used the 3mm hardware that came with the shocks . So I drilled out the shock towers to use a 3mm hardware.