Has the Mini LST2 good Diffs?

[bdebde]

Everyone gives the MLST a bad rap. I had an original one, that I put all ball diffs in. I ran 7.2/7.4V with 7,000kv motor. The diffs held up fine, other than loosening up themselves. I just started running them tight and locktite the diff nut. This was with the stock diff pinions too. I will say they do seem to have their share of problems, I always seamed to bust arms/bend hinge pins from doing cartwheels.. I now have a M18T and it is a rocket with only 5,000kv @7.4V. It seems to take a pretty good beating with no breakage. You can't go wrong with X-ray.

I loved my mlst2 with the exotek single servo conversion and mip centre ball diff. It's a lot more fun to drive than the xraym18mt, which isn't really a mt at all.

Also boiling the plastic parts of the diffs seemed to work well. Too bad one18th.com has gone. There was a lot of usefull info there.

You can mod kyosho mi-st09 diffs (nitro half-eight st) to fit in the mlst. Someone on ebay sold them already modded to fit in the mlst.

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by drkdgglr

I loved my mlst2 with the exotek single servo conversion and mip centre ball diff. It's a lot more fun to drive than the xraym18mt, which isn't really a mt at all.

Also boiling the plastic parts of the diffs seemed to work well. Too bad one18th.com has gone. There was a lot of usefull info there.

You can mod kyosho mi-st09 diffs (nitro half-eight st) to fit in the mlst. Someone on ebay sold them already modded to fit in the mlst.

Hmm, had not heard of that mod, with metal diff cases and the kyosho diffs it should be pretty good. I always had problems with the ring and pinion gears loosing teeth, so I figured it was case flex. The viscous diffs were ok once I removed the oring seals and replaced them with solid washers. The outputs were pulling out under force and squashing the oring. Bad design, IMO.