Originally Posted by MantisWorx

Change your front end alignment to 0 camber and -1* toe in, go with 30k front GREASE (kyosho makes excellent dif grease) and put yellow springs up front. you can also make the front of the truck a mm or so higher than the rear.


On the difs leaking and shimming here is what i have come up with: i came across some Viton "X" rings that are slightly thicker than the stock ones, when i get a chance i will get the specs for them and can offer them on my site if there is enough demand (which seems like there is!!). since there is no stress on the front dif i only use the X rings and removed all of the shims (spider and sun) so the front is very smooth and efficient. i also came across this liquid teflon fluid that is alchohol based so when it dries it leaves a very smooth film i use this on the outdrives and on the brass bushings. On that note, if your outdrives are already wobbling you are not going to be able to make it go away, once the bushings are worn there is no possible way of shimming to make it go away. Buy new housings and shim them from the get go. On the rear i use the same X rings but also install the stock size shims on top of the X ring and also the stock shims for the spider ( although i would like to find extra shims to double up on the spider shims). with these Xrings there is ZERO leakage!! just pulled my difs down a few days ago after a mth and they were both still full!! And we ALL know that never happens! At this time i had 10k mugen fluid in the front and 5k kyosho grease in the rear. i have become a fan of dif grease here lately, to me it is more consistent and more resistent to leaking. Unfortunately i cant find 10k grease in stock so i mixed 15 and 5 together so it should be somewhere around 10 the kyosho grease can be purchased at www.rckenon.com