For you mbx-5T owners....what diff fluid are you using - Page 3 - RC-Monster Forums

gtxracer · 12.22.2009, 03:06 PM

Ah, I see. I put in 30K I believe, which has been much better. My front and rear probably needs more fluid, it's about time for a change. I want to put 10K in the front and like 4 or 5K in the rear. I was also thinking about 7K up front, I'm not sure which would be better.

It's going to be different with each setup. I run a direct drive setup with motor brakes and a slight drag brake so I don't have to slow down much using the trigger in corners. The droop helped tremendously. My front end was so high when accelerating that I could hardly control where the truck was going when on power in corners. This is the first 1/8 scale that I've actually fine tuned for racing, so it's been a fun learning experience.

gtxracer · 12.23.2009, 11:59 PM

Put 7K in front and 5K in the rear, seems to be awesome. Won the electric 1/8 main tonight :)

George16 · 12.24.2009, 12:09 AM

Congrats!!! That's what I run on my ST RR. What do you have in your CD?

Rampokker · 12.24.2009, 12:11 AM

Well done! Sounds like you've got the setup sorted then.

gtxracer · 12.24.2009, 12:28 AM

Thanks guys! I believe I'm running 30K in the center, I'll have to look again since I can't remember. I think this is the setup to have in this truck for my driving style, which is pretty aggressive and I like to drift around corners sometimes. Drag brakes help too

gtxracer · 12.24.2009, 02:54 AM

Pic of the track I was on...very big to me-

George16 · 12.24.2009, 03:52 AM

That's a nice big track!

gtxracer · 12.24.2009, 04:07 AM

Yep, let's me get wide open on the throttle in a few places, I love it! I need to buy more batts though, running 4s 5000 packs only gives me about 12 min runtime on a track this size.

Rampokker · 12.24.2009, 05:45 AM

Looks like an awesome track! I'm pretty sure I've seen videos on youtube from this track... How long was your final?

magman · 12.24.2009, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by gtxracer

Put 7K in front and 5K in the rear, seems to be awesome. Won the electric 1/8 main tonight :)

Well done! I have changed my diff settings around/experimented and settled w/ 20F 20C 7R. Almost no unloading and since I don't race it works well.

gtxracer · 12.24.2009, 01:00 PM

Thanks guys! It's a well known track, tons of vids of it out there. For electric nights, th quals are 5 min and usually the mains are 8 min but we only did 5 last night due to time. I had a faster qualifying time since I put it in cruise control after lap 3