BashemSmashem

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Yeah , THAT is a normal amount of play . Did you ever have the older style diffs that came with (and still do come with) the SCTE 1.0 ? Those had so much play that the sun gears would skip on the spider gears under hard braking . I used to rebuild my diffs after 15-20 packs as they would start clacking badly after the sun gears were stripped ....

The new diffs that come with the 2.0 are as tight as any of my 1/8th scale diffs ....

agarabaghi

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Awesome. I guess I can put the truck back together! Man did she drive well.

Purdue Engineer

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Mine is the same way. All of my out drives are like that. I've been racing for three weeks now like this and no problems that I can tell. Yes, it does not seem right so I would like to here from Ryan or Casper about this. I just raced last night and was thinking of taking the whole truck apart and inspecting everything, but I don't know.
Thanks

handyman77

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Question, got my tekin 4600 yesterday and is running hot!! so I want to put a fan on it...any ideas about a good mount for it? there was one that mounted to the center diff but it was for the 1.0..would it work for the 2.0?

Please advise
thanks

maddog9

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Go down a tooth or two on your pinion gear.

BashemSmashem

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How hot is hot ? 150-160 feels really hot too the finger but is perfectly fine .

The mount for the 1.0 will work but you might loose the wire hold down that the 2.0 comes with .

You can get a clip on heatsink/fan mount for a 540 motor for pretty cheap , I use one from Integy and it works great ....

handyman77

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running a 14t now

this is the fan I was talking about, does anyone knows if this will work?

handyman77

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After a full pack (about 9 min) it got to 200 with a 14t so that is why I am a little concern
clay track,lots of traction indoor

XRated SCT

Thats weird I also have the 4600kv pro4 and I'm running 13t, the hottest I've seen mine is 140, 13t is good enough for me I might even drop to a 11 or 12t, is your mesh tight?

handyman77

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I guess I can drop it to a `13t and see what happen! still would like to run a fan if possible

hacker07

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One thing I will always point out is that temperature is always relative to the human that is driving. Some people are smoother, some are more notchy, this will result in different temperatures. So, someone giving a good starting point is always ok, but it may not hav ethe same results. Also, everyone maintains their trucks differently as well, this can result in different temps. Assuming the truck is broken in but fairly new, gear meshes are correct, then it is the driver that determines heat. BRAKES are probably the single biggest factor in heat. Everyone always talks about their forward settings but brakes are huge. For example, on my ESC, it is set at 100 on my RX8. But on my radio, for the last track I was on, my brakes were at 45%. Something to consider.

"Smiley"

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Yes, The FTW Fan Mount will work.

XRated SCT

All makes sense to me I'll take that into consideration, yea last weekend I was running and my temps were around 140 when I checked and I only ran a couple mins. after that so I know it didn't go any higher then 150 give or take, then I tried tightened my gear mesh too tight just experimenting and not a long run I was at 176

XRated SCT

I was thinking of throwing a heatsink on, this is what I did on my velineon system, heatsink w/ some artic silver 5 thermal compound this thermal grease IMO is one of the best out there since I'm experienced w/ it fixing electronics, one thing I learned about heatsinks is for it to work full potential the heat needs to actually get to the heatsink and using this grease does that flawlessly, but it's just a tip if you really want temps to go down

handyman77

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Ryan,

Thanks for your reply, I am running the activ8 esc from novak and that comes with preset drag brake which I forgot to tone down so I will do that, also mesh was set up correctly...I have about a total of 10 packs on this truck so I am not sure if that can be called "broken in"
I will try the drag brake and will see what happen

Thanks again
Josh