My e-revo brushless edition build

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The summit axles have been good. They don't snap or break as easily as the U joint style shafts if your slipper happens to be set too tight. But they do wear out as quickly as the U joint shafts, and from what I've experienced, every part of the Summit shaft wears out at the same rate and get a lot of sloppyness. So thinking of rebuilding them by changing a couple parts only is futile as every part needs to be changed. Might as well get a whole new shaft. That's a big problem as Traxxas does not and don't seem to plan on selling the Summit shafts as complete units. You can only get them by buying the parts seperately and assembling them. It comes up to over $20 per shaft. Expensive when you compare to the stock U joint shafts priced at just over $10. I'm on my second set of Summit shafts right now and they are starting to get a little slop to them so they are wearing out again. The only way to get complete Summit shafts is on ebay and they mostly sell them in pairs, one long shaft and one short one. You only need the long one so you're stuck with the short one. The short ones can be used but they have to be stretched to the point of almost breaking the rubber boot. This boot doesn't last long when it's stretched like that. I know I tried it. So yes the Summits are tougher but because they are not available at a cheap price, they are not really much of a good alternative and that's why I did not include them in my list of upgrades or mods. If you do try the MIP splines please let us know how they are as I've been eyeing those for a while.

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If anyone would like to buy an 8th scale center diff, I have an extra one for the E-Revo tranny and one for the nitro Revo tranny. PM me for details, pics and price.

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You ever climb up tree trunks with your ERBE? You know, you see a nice big tree with big roots that give just the right curve from the ground up the trunk and you just send the truck and it climbs the trunk and you do a back flip and land on the wheels. Well I was at the park with my son and while he was playing with some kids, I brought the ERBE out of the car and started playing around in the leaves. The kids and parents were saying ''oohs'' and ''aahs'' at how fast the truck was. So I started showing off by climbing this tree trunk and back flipping the truck back on its wheels and there was some ''WOWS'' and ''That's so cool''. Well I over did it and climbed that trunk so high that it just caught a branch and it did not back flip, it just fell back on the wing from 12 feet high. Result was a broken rear body mount, one of the ball ends of the body mount brace popped off the ball and my CF rear wing mount tie bar broke. Now I couldn't stop because the kids were asking for more so I continued with the rear body mount, wing mount and wing just hanging from the body. After a couple tumbles, the body just ripped in half But I still continued with just the front portion of the body still on the truck until the LVC kicked in. I couldn't disappoint my fans The ERBE is fixed now but I still need a new body. I have the Baja Bug body but I don't want to damage that one just yet.

Originally Posted by mistercrash

The summit axles have been good. They don't snap or break as easily as the U joint style shafts if your slipper happens to be set too tight. But they do wear out as quickly as the U joint shafts, and from what I've experienced, every part of the Summit shaft wears out at the same rate and get a lot of sloppyness. So thinking of rebuilding them by changing a couple parts only is futile as every part needs to be changed. Might as well get a whole new shaft. That's a big problem as Traxxas does not and don't seem to plan on selling the Summit shafts as complete units. You can only get them by buying the parts seperately and assembling them. It comes up to over $20 per shaft. Expensive when you compare to the stock U joint shafts priced at just over $10. I'm on my second set of Summit shafts right now and they are starting to get a little slop to them so they are wearing out again. The only way to get complete Summit shafts is on ebay and they mostly sell them in pairs, one long shaft and one short one. You only need the long one so you're stuck with the short one. The short ones can be used but they have to be stretched to the point of almost breaking the rubber boot. This boot doesn't last long when it's stretched like that. I know I tried it. So yes the Summits are tougher but because they are not available at a cheap price, they are not really much of a good alternative and that's why I did not include them in my list of upgrades or mods. If you do try the MIP splines please let us know how they are as I've been eyeing those for a while.

Nevermind. I found my answer. So much info in here, that it sometimes gets annoying when youre trying to find one thing, lol.