Originally Posted by
monkeyracing
Well, pulled the trigger and ordered the Tamiya dcj axles today. I was really torn between the 3Racing and the Tamiya. I've got loads of single joint axles from 3Racing and Tamiya. They're both very good and the parts are even interchangeable between them.
So, who's got them and what do you think? They're steel, like the regular ones, right?
I have tried most of them over the years...
I have had excellent luck with the now-discontinued Yeah Racing (#M05-015) and the Arrowmax versions. You just need to assemble them with threadlock (the YR ones) and they last forever. I have 16 full WCICS race weekends, plus almost two full years' worth of club races on one set of YR M05-15's and they still look new. The diff outdrives wear out way before the axles.
The old 3Racing versions with the spring clip pin retainer seemed to fail with the spring popping off - not sure how that do that - anyways the pin soon works out and trashes the hub.
I haven't tried the Tamiya spec ones, but they released them in the M05 Ver. IIR kit I have sitting on my shelf. Not sure if I will build that, or let it collect dust with the rest of them.