Maxx 3.3 Steering Blocks

[coolhandcountry]

I was thinking of getting a conversion sort of like this myself.
Did the stock turnbuckles and all bolt up. You can run the revo rims for stock width or the wabash rims. Let me know how it holds up.

[JThiessen]

To get Revo knuckles/U-joints to fit maxx drive pins you need to grind the relief on the drive pin back further. I found this out last night while I was trying to get my center revo drive shafts to fit the emaxx tranny on the ERevo. I had ground down the end of the drive pin first thinking it was just too long. But after doing that, it still fit the same way. Closer inspection showed that the end of the knuckle was bottoming out at the end of the flat on the pin.

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

To get Revo knuckles/U-joints to fit maxx drive pins you need to grind the relief on the drive pin back further. I found this out last night while I was trying to get my center revo drive shafts to fit the emaxx tranny on the ERevo. I had ground down the end of the drive pin first thinking it was just too long. But after doing that, it still fit the same way. Closer inspection showed that the end of the knuckle was bottoming out at the end of the flat on the pin.

I actually tried that already. The thing is to get it on far enough to line up the holes you have to grind the end of the drive pin and the end of the palstic knuckle. Then when you get it on far enough, the outside diameter of the plastic knuckle starts rubbing on the diff housing. I suppose I could have taken a dremel to the diff housing, but I just figured enough was enough.

From what I was looking at I think the only way to make it work (well) would be to elongate the hole in the steel diff shaft, and that was a little more than I could do with my dremel. :027:

I think I'm just gonna try and pick up some 3.3 diffs one of these days. For now, the revo CVDs are functioning fine, just a little heaver than the sliders.

[jhautz]

No, I needed to get the Maxx 3.3 tunbuckles to make it work. They are diferent than the widemaxx turnbuckles. I actually used the JDcarbon t-maxx 3.3 turnbuckles and revo ball ends with the tall hollow balls. This whole thing started for me because I was looking for ways to put my fat maxx on a diet without sacraficing durability.

As far as rims go. Ive only tried the stock maxx rims, the proline stablemaxx offsets and the Maximizer offset beadlocks. All of these fit no problem. I looks like just about any rim that works on the e/t-maxx will work for this setup as well. I'm sure the revo rims will work, thats what the t-maxx 3.3 comes with isnt it?

I'm actually thinking about getting a couple of the t-maxx 3.3 diffs to throw in this thing and then I can use the 3.3 drivshafts as well. I want to shave as much weight off of this thing as I can and my original plan called for running the tmaxx 3.3/revo shafts for the weight savings.

Anyone know how much stronger the 3.3 diffs are vs the e-maxx diffs? They should just bolt into the same bulks right?