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Originally posted by MetalMan
Whoa David, you are awake earlier than usual :). Hardened pinions are an option (no doubt), but the cost of them is pretty high. I would hate to hear of a pinion and spur stripping after a long period of use, since together the cost for replacement would be about $35.
There is always the way that I chose, and that is no center diff, but a center slipper clutch (using Revo parts) with MGT mod1 spurs (very strong). I have yet to strip a plastic spur gear! But that is also somewhat caused by the slipper clutch absorbing the things it should.
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I had to drop my brother and sister off at school, that made me get up at 7:30......about 3 hours earlier than it was a couple weeks ago. :D
My major problem is that there are only two choices: diff or slipper. If you run a slipper, then you could just run it a bit loose and have metal gears that send any shock to the slipper.......but your handling and turn in suffers. Option #2 is to run a diff and get better traction, but blow out a spur on hard hits (remember Sheep Hills, Travis?). You can really only do one or the other, I would LOVE to make a system that: a) fits in the same space, and b) utilizes BOTH a slipper and a diff, for the best of both worlds. This way, you could still have the quiet-ness of a plastic spur, but the give of the slipper to take the shock out of hard landings as well as a diff to keep the handling up to par. Problem is, you're probably not going to be able to fit both of those onto a piece that can just drop into the vehicle......it'd have to be a least a little longer. Still, that would be mega cool........:Love: