Latrax Teton Tips and Tricks 

Tip for the diff, get a fiber washer and shim it tighter. It will never break again, even with brushless power. Did it to mine and it will wheelie for days now. Also replaced the Driveshafts for hot racing steel cvd's.

Surprised you never mentioned how easy the front diff bulkhead breaks. The upper control arms mount to differential bulkhead with a very small amount of plastic, my son broke it within 5 min of getting it home. Replaced the bulkhead , drove it for 20 min and the front wheel hit something and snapped it again. Replaced it and got rid of truck

Very good video!! I have a fleet of 15 latrax models for my business and I have experienced all of those issues with the tetons and prerunners. These things are tough indeed and they seem to tolerate more abuse than my 1/10 scale traxxas models do. I love these things!! Thank you so much for the hacks!!

Took my 1/18 Prerunner and converted it over to Bob. Put the brushless on it Traxxas ESC m3 and in 5 channel receiver. Put aluminum shocks on and turn them upside down, They just never break that way. Steel axles and aluminum body mounts, and added Teton tires. Runs like a beast, doesn't roll over, can do flips off of ramps. Run so much better than the prerunner stock. We wanted a Teton but couldn't get one so made Bob. Bob (bashing or breaking). Thanks for the video.

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I always buy multiple of the differential gear sets. With brushless power they strip out frequently. Aluminum driveshafts are another thing I upgraded to match the power. Fun little cars!

Good notes! Alot of the parts you can print off with a 3d printer as well it's been a life saver!

Try ur lipo battery with the brushed engine.. you can put the esc into lipo battery mode by holding the power button down to change, green light for lipo red light for nimh. The esc can run two cell lipo Max with stock hardware, get a lot more speed and run time.. hit me up sometime and I can share a video or pics for ur channel of how I installed a velcro strap so I can run a variety of batteries sizes

Great tips! I have also had the following fail on my son's: servo, drive shafts and just recently the main gear. All are plastic and i replaced them with metal parts.

Great info! Glad there's no breakage of a arms and knuckles.

Thank you so much! This helped me to find out that my teton's diff was stripped and now I can get it fixed!

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You are a huge help! Thanks a lot for the tips! Definitely helps. 🤘

For those who like name brand tools I'd highly suggest klein tools 27 in 1 screw driver. It's a little terminating screwdriver and works great

I used washers for the shock collars

Great tips i drive mine on the street but the suspension arms always break but now i know for the shocks

Awesome vid and edits and filming and car and tips

Great video

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Can’t say enough about traxxas and the LaTrax line. Tip on the shocks if the do open. Get20 wt lite shock oil. Just a few drops work the air out by moving the shaft slowly before closing it up. Then the oem shock will have full damper resistants. Also upgraded ones. Be surprised there not filled half the time. Fiy and top tip you said. Dip the shocks oem. There stronger fliped. I love them made for everyone. If you want a great low entry starter price rtr. Or if you like to mod you can go s far as your can possibly imagine. Oh and I did the teton is had every part released. To Hobbypark metal to the frame. There made for you to make it you Small upgrades make it better I wanted to set out to make a fully customized teton to the air brushed body. As a show piece and to show what a À beautiful peace it is today. (Remember for every enhancement to to make it faster or a part stronger. There needs balance on between upgrades and what not been. Enjoy the upgrades don’t push it past the limits of what not been. I own 13 r/c car and trunk. From the 1/10th summit 1/16 summit, Ken blocks 16th rally. The teton and rally. Kyosho 18th rally. 2 Tamaya semi trucks. One fuel tanker and the other is a car transport, full functionality bed lift tilt and slide with winch to offload the small cars. It’s. And one tugboat started from a fiberglass mold. They are amazing the time in to the semi and tug yes the work on the three but what makes them priceless me and my father. Did them together. I love all he tastes are not off road or street. We make À perfect team. I get the greatest my love for R/C. And every moment I can with my dad. I’m 57 my dad just turn 80. He À engager what he can do with my first real car Tamaya sand buggy. I got 43 year ago. R/C is not a to, people don’t understand. Most think it’s a toy you buy for a child. That’s the introduction to what. Very big wold. Just wanted to share a story. Of my love life love for R/C. More the love between a father and a daughter. Enjoying every minute together. To the next build 🤔🧐 !! XO-1 😊

Any way to really slow down the trucks? I'd like gentle walking speed to maximum half the stock top speed. It's for my grandson that will be turning 5 next month. Thanks

I would argue they are not tough at all lol! We didn't go a full charge with something breaking on ours until all the plastic parts were swapped for metal parts. We even burnt through the OG motor. But replacing the parts made for good bonding with my son.

I have had my Teton about year now and after two week servo broke. Fast forward to last sunday the plus cable broke of from motor side so I soldered it back but other that this car is rock solid.

great tips... thanks for making, really helpful

Nice video! I just got a Teton from a friend. It needs a little fixing up. I'm hoping to upgrade to the brushless motor soon

Thanks for the video! Im deciding wether I want to keep upgrading my teton or just sell it and get something else. I'm considering primarily an lc racing/tacon car (they're alot like the wltoys stuff, but brushless and way better plastics). I love upgrading the teton but all the high wear items are kinda getting to me, lol.

I got the metal gear set for like 8 bucks of my local dealer and just added those to my broken stock servo cost way less than 38bucks for a metal gear servo

What batteries and charger are you using for 15 min charge time? Do you have a link? And do you need an adapter? What’s that called?

I also have 2 and I’ve upgraded the plastic spur gears to metal due to they ended up shearing the gears and I also upgraded the plastic axles to aluminum because somehow the kids broke the axles… and I’ve replaced the motors on both and now having to do it again, third time the charm? My guess is overheating… looking into something to help with cooling…

Arms are so cheap. 3 broken in 3 days. We've juste recieved the RPM models, can't wait to install and check them.

Any current thoughts or suggestions on upgrades for the Teton!?! Is anything really necessary out of the box? If so, PLMK ASAP. Thanks for your time and the video.

Great tips n help thank you

Replace the tires with the sst tires. Better performance.

I'm about to buy one of these cars for my daughter. Will the batteries from my 1/16 Revo fit in the tray??

What charger do you use to charge the battery in 30 minutes? Are you charging at 1C or higher?

Hey man cool vid I not long bought one of these i like your tip on the upside-down shocks I will try that myself....the brushless seems slower than mine and it's stock is that esc on training mode or full power

Thanks for the tips!

In my case i put diff fluid to reduce the were, help a lot

3 hours to charge the nimh? Don't use the charger that the Teton came with,use your lipo charger and use the nimh setting and charge it in a fraction of that time. Also at the end of the video I believe the brushed version was in training mode during the burnout. If you switch off the training mode it will most definitely do a waaaaay better burnout and have much greater acceleration,thanks

Muito legal queria uma bateria dessa e um radio controle, para usar o meu mas um dia vou encontrar. Muito bom o vídeo, não tem vídeo brasileiro falando sobre esse automodelo.

I just ordered la trax Teton! Great video ! Do these cars last a long time in general with the servos and transmitter connections ? I don’t want to have to replace servo or any technical things in the short term .

Hi, very good video. I have one issue with my teton, could you help me on that. Car is not running in straight line for both fwd and reverse even adjusted trim in remote control. Any fix for that. Thank you

What's the thought about flipping the shocks 180degrees..?

3-hour charge time? How are you charging that battery? Mine charges in roughly 20 minutes. I have the big Traxxas charger

The first link when clicked on it said looked everywhere the kit didn't show up and can you put the link for where you got your metal servo?

Will a 2s lipo burn up stock motor

How do u know the difference between and brushed and brushless??

Should I upgrade it and is there any different between the new one and the old one

Hello , I definitely need more speed from my Teton. Which motor and Esc did you purchase to upgrade ? I want to have the same setup as yours - Thank you for your time

I just picked one up today and slapped a 2s brushless system in it

Just tell us you lost the clip for the battery holder. :P

Can u please tell me what kind of battery you have

What Lopo battery did you use

Run to the pantry grab some veggie oil...stick it in your shocks. Free

Traxxas stock servos seem cheap these last few years and always break. Whats nice about these models are all the upgraded part available. Perfect little bashers with metal gears and aluminum parts. Stick with plastic links they don’t bend.

can you run the brushed one on 3s lipos?

Wht battery can I upgrade to with stick Teton car ?

You can buy new collars it gets 2 and some other parts for like $8 I had 2 buy some

Why u flip the shock? Can i know the reason

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I’ve had it for to years the wire ripped that’s all I’m to lazy to fix it

Do you a link to your screw driver set

Just go to your LHS and get a bottle of shock oil

I keep blowing the diffs

Good info for the most part. Tape though? Lol Nah

Does anyone know if you can put a bigger motor like a 540 or 550 in these trucks? I wanna get my niece one so she can play with me and my dad but I’d wanna run a high mah lipo (for more runtime, less charge time) and I heard a few people say the motor gets too hot on 2s? Maybe that guy was just hammering it through tall grass or somethin?

Why not just get more oil for the shocks? How cheap are you jeez… shock oil for that would probably cost less than $1. Or just buy a $5 bottle and it will last you for many years

All I have to say is wow and not in a good way

Lol

This thing is a major piece of shit imo, stock motor burns out with hardly any use. Also had the steering servo shitting the bed and the diff started clicking away. All with hardly any use, one thing after the other, not abusing it either just burning around on my drive way. Major pos for "hobby grade"