just installed a tamiya ball diff in my m05. which side does the screw head go on left or right ? or it doesnt matter?

Put the nut on the left side, it wont come off if loose. Had the dif ball, its nice, but I perfer to have the gear diff with grease...if dif ball fails, it automatically ends your run/race...sometimes its better to have simple. But dif ball does work in some situations, plus, sort of easier to change settings than having to take apart the whole car

ok thanks. i have been running it with the nut on the right so you can adjust it from the left side of the car

Is it just me, or are Tamiya titanium screws really soft? I’ve got several where the hex has distorted and today I stopped the head right out of one. I’m not that strong and I only use MIP/Thorp drivers. The amazing part is how much trouble I’m having trying to drill out the shank. Maybe I need better drill bits.

Hello.

Does anyone know, where i can buy a FF conversion Kit for the M05 like the Xevo or Spice Desire SRM-01?

Greetings from Germany

I'm really enjoying my M05. It's a great thing to run between races. The 3racing oil filled diff still makes it wander a bit.

My biggest problem, is i'm dragging the body, and battery in corners.

Ahh, this thread started in 2003. 14 years of everything to do with FWD Tamiya Minis. No matter what you wanted to know, this was the place to come, all in the one thread, 03, 05 and we hoped, the 07. It was ALWAYS on the 1st page, always super-active.
And now....I had to drag it up from Page 6, all because someone who knew better, started an M07 only thread. So everyone's fractured and there's no unity in it any more.
Yeah, Thanks for doing that Buddy...

Well, personally speaking, I don't find 14 year old monster-threads with ~2000 pages and ~30000 posts about several different cars all that appealing, so I actually prefer a new thread for new cars once in a while.

Egh. I guess my original worries about plastic quality while assembling this thing weren't off the mark... I haven't even driven after the first time - which was maybe 25 minutes of racing, max - but was just now checking out the car for one reason or another... and noticed that the right rear hub is cracked all the way through. Great. Time to order more aluminum, I guess, since no point taking this to the track again until I have a new hub. And of course I still would need the stiffer diff at some point, too, to actually make it properly driveable. Tamiya Mini? I think Tamiya MoneyPit is more like it I'm not sure if I dare inspect the car any further at this point, haha.

Come to think of it, I spotted some diff lockers and solid axle kits for the M-05 while browsing. Can't seem to find much comments on them, though. How well do they work? My touring car seems to work fine with a solid front axle, but it is 4WD with a diff in the rear, so I don't know how different the FWD Mini would act. I've seen people say they put 500k etc fluids in M-05 fluid diffs, to me that seems pretty damn close to locked as it is. Stiffest I even have is 100k, and never actually used anything higher than 30k in any car so far.

Just that the lockers/solid axles are cheaper and then there certainly wouldn't be a risk of a leaking diff.

500k is thick, but a long way off being locked. A solid axle will be tricky to drive and may have troubles driving in a straight line, depending on your track and setup. I like to use something between 100k and 300k.

That's one point of view, but not the only one. Nor is it necessarily totally correct.
Having all M-Chassis info in one place does have merit, but I gotta agree with some others here that when the thread is as large as it is, looking for data on a specific model can be a bit of a 'needle in a haystack' scenario.

With the M-07 being a significant shift in chassis design, I like the idea of it having it's own thread too.

Sorry I’ve been missing, guys. Been in hospital since early November. I guess I got really sick. But hey, my brain came back and most of the sutures holding me together have been removed. I’ll be here until mid January, but I’ll be sure to check in and lecture you regularly.

I hope your on the mend Jim. Missed you on the boards. Though I am more a lurker nowdays. I have not been running mini much, but enjoy my M07 when I can get track time.

Take care.
50 cal

Ouch! Get well, eh? We need your out-of-the-box thinking and comments!!!