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Old 10-03-2022, 12:07 AM
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Ball diff building tips - it’s a sticky in this forum

"How To Properly Build And Break In a Ball Differential and Slipper Clutch"
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Old 10-03-2022, 12:31 AM
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Hi Riko,
Shock oil won't do anything for the ride height of the car. If I understand what you are calling sag in the rear, you are saying that the rear of the car is sitting to low. If that is the case, use the spring collars to adjust the ride height. There are red collars with a machine screw in them at the top of the spring. Loosen the screw and slide that collar down until the rear sits at the height that you would like. Set both side to the same setting.

You also mentioned something about building your ball diff and tightening it as much as you could. That is probably not the best way to do it. Typically, you want the ball diff to be as loose as possible without slipping under acceleration. This will give you the smoothest differential action. As far as break-in, you can hold one wheel while you run the motor slowly (not full speed!!!). Often you can just advance your throttle trim so that it is actually moving the car at neutral trigger, then hold the wheel for a bit. I don't know if I would do all 8 minutes at once as you could build up some serious heat, but a few minutes at a time until the diff feels really smooth when you spin the wheels by hand.

Hope that helps and good lcuck!
thx a lot man!

About the diff, I already loosened it up again, I realized Kyoshos manuals arent always right...

Still have to break it in, but its smoother now (will post a vid someday about it).


About the shocks, hmmm, kyosho did specifically instruct what the colar height should be for front and rear...
But indeed, might also have to ignore Kyoshos own instructions about that...

Will do the swap front and rear shock tho.
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Old 10-08-2022, 01:33 PM
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manual says to leave a gap of 1.5mm between top of shock body and top of the adjuster plastic....but that would make it sag a lot!
So I left a gap of 9mm


The end result is much nicer

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Old 10-14-2022, 08:16 AM
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The Japanese flags are applied with sticker paper, not the best paper quality, but it will do..
Gonna wait to take some nice quality pictures until I finally receive the Senna helmet; wich could take a few more months to ship (last quarter of the year )

(Also gonna buy a second body + cage with roof for 'bashing')
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Old 10-15-2022, 01:28 PM
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Couldnt resist to make some pic..





So, waiting the Senna helmet and the 2nd bash body, this is the self queen body
I also used a smaller Honda logo on the nose, looks better imo.
And added some detailed stickers at the rear.
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Old 11-16-2022, 01:31 PM
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Anyway, added some decals I had left from my Optima Mid build


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here's the original 1980's model: https://youtu.be/jtlkr9vvZ7M
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