I think this was a really good video. I can’t believe in my circle of RC crawlers how many people don’t even shim their axles. But they are the guys that always blow a differential.

Baseline had a good visit to the dentist.  Almost exactly what I had to do mine when I stripped the ring gear on my Ecto.  I used SSD aluminum C-hubs.  I recently had to figure out how to get the tie rod in front of the axle.  I'll send you some pics.

I bought a truck Wednesday, he's built from spare parts. My dad dubbed him parts bin, he's a 10.2 with rock pirates shock towers a VP trans and SSD pro44 axles, although I need to get a new rear one luckily I had a spare ar44 for the time being, that being said if this chassis I found is still available next paycheck I'll be building a bullet proof 10.2 with mostly Amazon parts, all thanks to the canyon. Oh and parts bin has the black case 60kg servo from flash hobby and I got 4 Amazon batteries (I have 2 more on order and a bunch of parts, and bead locks for said other 10.2 or this one) I'm planning on getting the timten dual stages at some point soon also. Thanks for making great content and inspiring my addiction to tiny trucks 😂

CRC 05351 but pricey for the volume. Everyone does gears differently i think. Sprial/hypoid gears lash is rotational. I set them pretty tight, crawler sees no real material growth from heat. Plus under extreme load, and high torque plastic will flex a tiny bit pushing ring away from pinion.  Full depth pinion tooth engagement, zero side to side movement on carrier (no preload on bearings),  tiniest perceived rotational lash. Spin pinion, no noise or tough spots good to go.

For the knuckle bushings (hats) i use grease to keep them in place. Just a little on outside of bushing before I slide it in.

Awesomeness ❤❤❤

Sometimes when a item takes a bit ..no just small amount of abuse and brakes down now and then...Then there are others that take a little less than others...of course failure... Great upgrade ..I am going back through my rigs and see whats up.. Great tips thanks...

As I have just brought a second hand ecto I will be having a look to see if theres any movement in my gears. Thanks for the video.

my thoughts only 23 minutes in my god it's just like a real car, time to bust out the dial indicator and gear paint. You gained a sub 👍. Good on ya for trying out the moly cv grease, when I got into the axles and transmission in my first RC, a trx4m, I was bummed out that I only had silicone grease at home when I have a grease gun full of moly at work. I was surprised to find the silicone grease actually coats everything evenly after running it though. As @mfnJOSH mentioned below, I also think gun blue or cold blue would be possibly useful for gear mesh. One would have to put a load on the gears to really see the mesh pattern I suppose.

You think you have spiderwebs - try being the first one in the PA woods in the morning.

Being the Meister of minutiae, I would love to see you put Prussian Blue on those gear teeth and check the actual mesh like a real differential.🧐

I put AR44 chubs on

Have you tried deep woods on baseline?

Thanks buddy great video. Red n tacky with lucas oil stabilizer is amazing. I'm just saying, "Please give it a shot.. everyone asks how my chopra is so quiet!! You'll thank me, or I at least wonder your opinion. Thanks for what you do brother 💯 doesn't take much. Just start with a little and just add more as needed 👊

Ring and pinion backlash on a 1:1 is usually 6-10 thousandths.  Do ya ‘spose it’s 1/10 of that for the Element?  Did you mic it?

What kind of electric drill/driver are you using? I just put together a Phoenix kit using regular hand hex drivers and have decided to never do that again 🙃

I have an Element sendero hd rtr ( the one with the half cage )  coming , would this set be suitable for the axles on it ?  Sorry not familiar with all the different models

Can you share which shims you use for diffs? Maybe a link to an amazon item?

What’s outer size of those 7mm shims? Tks!

Been playing D4 in the evenings with my old high school buddy. We both feel like the game is optimized for party play. Solo play starts to feel like a slog and a bit boring. And solo neither of us like to go into dungeons because we've both run into the random butcher here and there. 😬 He found a clan for us mature folks so we joined up lol. Haven't really done a lot of partying with them yet but I'm sure that'll be cool when we level high enough to do the seasonal helltides or nightmare dungeons