108LikesTeam Associated T5M Discussion
08-12-2015, 08:35 PM
#2026
I have no idea if I am in the right place or not, but I am getting tired of searching through pages and pages of threads. So here I am with a question, pardon my ignorance if I'm asking in the wrong thread.
I recently bought a T5M after running a friends at our local indoor clay track and falling in love with the chassis. I bought a lightly used roller from the buy/sell section of RCtech, and got it in the mail today. I installed a castle brushless system with a 5700kv motor, flysky receiver and a savox servo on it to test it out until my Tekin RSX and sensored motor come in later this week.
The car drives and handles fine, but makes a terrible noise under full throttle. It sounds/feels like it is slipping somewhere (it sounds alot like an old vacuum cleaner). I tightened the slipper clutch beyond where that could be what is slipping, and it still makes the racket and experiences slippage. I then locked up the spur/pinion with an extra pinion gear and slowly spun the tires manually. It is not slipping at the slipper clutch. I can not think of anything else it could be except the differential? I am extremely novice at RC mechanics and don't know how the insides of these diffs are setup, but have a basic knowledge of a full size vehicle diff.
Where do I go from here? is the differential adjustable? am I way off track thinking that is the problem? Do I need to rebuild it?
P.S. the chassis appears to be extremely new. no scratches or wear anywhere on it.
P.P.S. my friend who's T5 I first drove spoke with me today and said that his car is now experiencing the same problem.
I recently bought a T5M after running a friends at our local indoor clay track and falling in love with the chassis. I bought a lightly used roller from the buy/sell section of RCtech, and got it in the mail today. I installed a castle brushless system with a 5700kv motor, flysky receiver and a savox servo on it to test it out until my Tekin RSX and sensored motor come in later this week.
The car drives and handles fine, but makes a terrible noise under full throttle. It sounds/feels like it is slipping somewhere (it sounds alot like an old vacuum cleaner). I tightened the slipper clutch beyond where that could be what is slipping, and it still makes the racket and experiences slippage. I then locked up the spur/pinion with an extra pinion gear and slowly spun the tires manually. It is not slipping at the slipper clutch. I can not think of anything else it could be except the differential? I am extremely novice at RC mechanics and don't know how the insides of these diffs are setup, but have a basic knowledge of a full size vehicle diff.
Where do I go from here? is the differential adjustable? am I way off track thinking that is the problem? Do I need to rebuild it?
P.S. the chassis appears to be extremely new. no scratches or wear anywhere on it.
P.P.S. my friend who's T5 I first drove spoke with me today and said that his car is now experiencing the same problem.
08-13-2015, 01:40 AM
#2030
because if it barked, that most likely means you've flat spotted the balls in the diff and it'll never work right after that.
08-13-2015, 01:45 AM
#2031
when you rebuild it, i'd get schelle tungsten diff balls and a caged ceramic thrust bearing, along with new diff rings. there are a few good videos out there on how to rebuild and break in a ball diff. then you need to make sure you adjust your slipper so that it slips before the diff does.
08-13-2015, 03:10 AM
#2033
Ahh that makes sense. I will research more difs and rebuild mine. I just wanted to make sure that was the problem. Thanks for the help guys
08-13-2015, 08:07 AM
#2034
Guys I have a question, hope you guys could help me out. Ive been driving my T5M on the stock set up for a little while now and have decided to change it up a little. I decided to put Thielke's set up on it and it says he is using the 5mm cup offset on the shocks and the stock set up uses the 9mm. I installed the 5mm and now I cant get the truck up high enough to get the ride height he is using? hes using the blue fronts and white rears just like what comes stock. what am I missing? I see a lot of guys using the 5mm cup offset in there set up sheets why? im not sure what this does, I was hoping someone could explain it to me and maybe why I cant seem to get the ride height
thank you
thank you
08-13-2015, 08:11 AM
#2035
Guys I have a question, hope you guys could help me out. Ive been driving my T5M on the stock set up for a little while now and have decided to change it up a little. I decided to put Thielke's set up on it and it says he is using the 5mm cup offset on the shocks and the stock set up uses the 9mm. I installed the 5mm and now I cant get the truck up high enough to get the ride height he is using? hes using the blue fronts and white rears just like what comes stock. what am I missing? I see a lot of guys using the 5mm cup offset in there set up sheets why? im not sure what this does, I was hoping someone could explain it to me and maybe why I cant seem to get the ride height
thank you
thank you
08-13-2015, 08:24 AM
#2036
Im running the stock truck springs, this is the set up
http://www.teamassociated.com/pdf/ca...er_Thielke.pdf
08-13-2015, 08:31 AM
#2037
Im running the stock truck springs, this is the set up
http://www.teamassociated.com/pdf/ca...er_Thielke.pdf
http://www.teamassociated.com/pdf/ca...er_Thielke.pdf
08-13-2015, 08:35 AM
#2038
Kyo Springs
It's the Kyo Springs. That's what I run, and have the smaller offset on my rig.
08-13-2015, 08:47 AM
#2040
awesome matt, thank you for the info!
