LOSI LST XXL Conversion ideas

[ZippyBasher]

Sweet! I wonder if it was a lemon. (Fluke) None the Less Good to hear. But Were You also running those truggy wheels or the Stockers?

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by ZippyBasher

Sweet! I wonder if it was a lemon. (Fluke) None the Less Good to hear. But Were You also running those truggy wheels or the Stockers?

I ran the stockers, then Proline 40 series Mashers, then Truggy wheels just like the ones in the pics above. The Mashers had one wheels with the hex rounded off, at some point I thought this might be part of the problem. But the rear diff had problems again running the Truggy wheels. I'm starting to be convinced that my rear diff problem was as simple as setting the punch control more conservatively. One more thing that is different, before I was running with the LST diff gears that didn't come with shims for the planetary gears. The sets of gears I ordered from ebay have shims for the planetary gears. That's what I'm running now in both front and rear diffs.

JT, I agree 80% is a lot but for the first outing after the rebuild, I wanted to have a big difference in this setting to really notice if it would change anything. It seems it did so now I can lower the setting 5% at a time until I blow a rear diff again. Repair the diff and bring the punch control 10% more then when it blew the diff and it should be set for good.

And finally, Lincpimp was right when he said the Hot Bodies hardened diff gears don't fit. The sun gears are too thick. Anybody need them?