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Old 08-21-2019, 06:34 PM
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Evoking1230
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Originally Posted by Cane1996
Hey guys, new poster here and fairly new to this hobby. I have this kit built and I was setting up the motor and electronics recently. The steering and motor seemed to work fine. However, running the motor made the two drive shafts become detached (where it attaches to the couple coming out of the two gear boxes and is held in place via the lateral screw). I reattached and made extra sure to tighten the screws as tight as I could and ran the motor again and the two drive shafts became loose again.

The only thing I didn't do in this step was use the thread lock on the two lateral screws. Does that make that big of a difference here? And sorry if this is a rookie question or mistake, I'm pretty new to this!

Has anybody encountered this issue?

Thanks,
Jon
if you’re referring to the center drive shafts and where they mate to the gearboxes, and the lateral screw being the tiny set screw then yes you must use thread lock.
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