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[ZippyBasher]

Chad - If and when you do find those Saver parts shoot me a PM with a price. I May take you up on that if the price is right.

Man I went and ran a pack through this weekend on the newly rebuilt diffs. CRAP, I locked/blew the rear diff on the first run. Nova cup actually failed. The pins that hold the 4 spider gears mashed into the sidewall on the Diff Cup. Therefore locking the diff and chipping some of the gears teeth. But you should have seen the "doughnuts" I was doing. It was literally like a Gyro, the faster I gassed it, the faster it spun. Spun so fast It was just a big blur. Crazy.

So new Bevel gears are OTW and I will just go back to the Losi HD cup (on the rear). What a shame. The CD is holding up OK.

[mothman]

Originally Posted by ZippyBasher

Chad - If and when you do find those Saver parts shoot me a PM with a price. I May take you up on that if the price is right.

Man I went and ran a pack through this weekend on the newly rebuilt diffs. CRAP, I locked/blew the rear diff on the first run. Nova cup actually failed. The pins that hold the 4 spider gears mashed into the sidewall on the Diff Cup. Therefore locking the diff and chipping some of the gears teeth. But you should have seen the "doughnuts" I was doing. It was literally like a Gyro, the faster I gassed it, the faster it spun. Spun so fast It was just a big blur. Crazy.

So new Bevel gears are OTW and I will just go back to the Losi HD cup (on the rear). What a shame. The CD is holding up OK.

Wow.. u managed to cause some damage to the diff? How bad did you abuse the truck? I am very impress since this is the first time I hear about Nova cup failure. All this while I thought they are bulletproof.

[ZippyBasher]

I thought the same thing about the Aluminum Nova Cups Being bulletproof. The rear cup is useless after 1 pack and I just took the CD cup out to refill with a lighter fluid and give it a thorough inspection and it actually is starting to wear pin slots in the side of the cup as well...(at least a dozen runs or so) I can try to get a picture but Its not that cool Well there goes $40.

I will just go back to the Losi XXL HD plastic cup. I looked at the one I was using for over a year in the rear diff and it looks new... the ring and pinion also look brand new. I guess those little metal inserts in the XXL really save the cup. I think a CNC cup designed after the XXL cup would be bulletproof, but not cheap to get CNC'd...