Installed the LST2 differentials in my G3R chassis

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by Gee

MisterCrash, that is good to hear about your first set of bulks. Well maybe not good but I do feel better now. It makes MisterCrash more human vs the machine that gave us the "revo" thread that everyone should read. Perfect looking bulkheads and precisely trimmed lst cases in one sittting. Now I know there is some trial and error behind the curtain. lol

Lemme tell ya! I spend a lot of time and money ruining parts to finally get to what I want and works

Originally Posted by Gee

wondered how your bulkheads turned out so nice. A nice job on the lst cases by the way. Looks like a stock black one from the pictures.

That was part of my goal, to have the LST diffs as close as possible to the stock Traxxas diff dimensions without compromising the strength of the LST cases. The black paint is just icing on the cake to make it look stock. There is need to take a lot of material off the LST cases. They are a hair under 27 mm thick and the stock Revo diffs are a hair over 26 mm thick. So I only take off a hair under 0.5 mm on either side with a method I came up with on the drill press. The thickness of the LST cases' aluminum is 2 mm so taking off a little less than 0.5 mm does not make them weak at all. Then it's just a matter of rounding off the corners with a drum sander on the Dremel.

The lines show where I take material off the cases.

[Gee]

Originally Posted by mistercrash

Lemme tell ya! I spend a lot of time and money ruining parts to finally get to what I want and works

The the parts box label "Spent $ just to see if it would work. Didn't but might on something else." If it's not in that box it was a complete loss or a frustrating expereince that is best to be forgotten.

We'll that sucked, I just fat fingered the F5 and found out what does when you are in a thread. It qoutes the last post. Unfortanutley it also wipes clean all the rambling that you had previously typed. Must be your lucky day...

The pics with the lines doesn't show up for me in photobucket but I can pretty much see the line in the thumbs when I get close enough to the monitor.

How many turns out do you go with you knuckles. I was trying to remember where I had mine origanally set to. I am thinking it was (careful don't hit hte F5 key again) 6 on the top and 8 on the bottom for the base settings.


Well that little bit did the trick, ran three 6s packs through it this afternoon and no shaft dislocations. Great idea James! The stronger diffs are just what the old girl needed. The romance is back on.....