bigz

mine's like that also.

ali_g

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Mine got no issue. I even had to increase the tightness to prevent skipping.

rc_jammer

I'm not sure I'd use anything thicker than 1k hence i think 800 is the other option I would use although I will probably get dot 4 just to try it out and see what it does. Do you know if yokomo do dot 1,2 and 3 and what the rating of these are?

Jamie Hanson

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I know a bunch of people have complained about slop in the steering system. I played with mine yesterday and was able to completely eliminate it with 4 small shims.
The first shim is a 4mm .02 thick on the steering post itself. It eliminates the up and down slop.
The other shims are a 3/16th shim I think. Very thin. If you look at the alum piece that connects the two bellcranks, there is a small lip that goes towards the bearing side. This shim fits around the lip and when bolted on, eliminates the slop there.
I will take some pictures today and post tonight.

Bubblehead

What gearing combination should I use to achieve 3.5 FDR? RCGT

mr fit

8.0-9.5 maybe higher... 115 spur 21-28 pinion. i wouldn't go any higher than a 28 as this brings the fdr into the 7's.(64 pitch gears)

Jerry P

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RCGT is a 17.5 blinky class. So a 9.5 would make it run slower than a stock mini cooper. I guess you thought he was asking for gearing for a 3.5 motor. RCGT at floyd would be miserable with that straight away.


Bubblehead: (spur/pinion)* internal ratio= FDR.. so just do the calculations and you'll be there. I believe the IR is 1.95 for the tcx. Sorry i run 40 tooth pullies so my IR is different.

Bubblehead

Thanks, I know the math. I didn't want to buy a lot of spur gears to find the right combination.

Bret Pousson

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if this helps i ran a 96 spur to a 50 pinion it = 3.7 fdr so mabe a 51 or 52 pinion

k_bojar

iTrader: (30)

try here - http://cell.sixfoottiger.com/

a buddy of mine did that site, works from a PC or phone...handy little web app - click the link for FDR

he's also got a freebie for an android, if you got one of them...check out tigeryan in the andriod market

mr fit

I thought he meant fdr for a 3.5 motor... ooops

ali_g

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Dot 1 #650
Dot 2 #800
Dot 3 #1000
Dot 4 #1200
Dot 5 #1600
Dot 6 #2100
Dot 7 #3000

Anyone else tried?

Coldn

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Hello guys,

I have a TCX and TC cars, and the both have a litle problem with aluminium CVD, it easily broke. Do you know any trick to fiz it? some guays told me to use tamiya steel CVD with blades.

Bubblehead

Thanks, some of the combinations I tried I kept stripping spur gears.

warnos

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The TC has the heavy duty steel 44mm shafts.. and the TCX has the HPI pro-d 46mm steel shafts..