Originally Posted by
Sarinexia
Very Intriguing! I wish this came up before I did my diff rebuild I would have loved to try it.
Curious though -- You said this "grease" you're using does the trick. Don't you take the resistance factor out of using different weight diff oils? My RC8be has 5k, 5k, 3k. If you use grease you don't get this difference. While the maintenance is simplified IMMENSELY (and believe me, I'm very interested to do this) --- Don't you take away from the performance & set up of the vehicle by using that grease? The reason why I have a lower resistence diff fluid in the rear is so I can get better cornering.
I'll be curious to hear your answer to this Team Grid
. And if you could, could you post a link of what grease you guys are using? thanks!
See post #6753 for the pic on the grease.
Any synthetic grease will work as long as it is not petroleum based. We have been using SuperLube for years and years with great results.
If you use grease in all the diffs, they will work identical.
As for resistance. Little or none. All the diffs spin freely without any resistance.
There is enough things to tune for handling and driveability like sway bars, camber, caster, spring rates, shock oil, shock pistons. These can be done on the fly or very quickly at trackside, not diff oil changes especially the front and rear diffs.
I"ll post a video to show how smooth and little resistance grease has on the diffs.