SCX24 Treal Overdrive Gears initial thoughts,install and testing 

Awesome! Glad you like them! I feel like they made a big difference for me but it’s hard to know if others will feel the same. Good to know they worked so well for you also so thank you for sharing also.

Oh man that Capra! It’s a beast! Favorite crawler I’ve owned. Winter will be perfect for the 1/24 tho!

Thanks so much!

Yeah with some slingers it’ll be a totally different outcome I’d say!

I really appreciate that! I would say with my use of the double barrels and overdrive together that they probably do help a tiny bit but honestly the double barrels are just bad about unloading on the steep stuff. I still run them on my orange cage build but that’s it. Honestly if I had it to do over I’d probably just go with a set of oil filled carismas or my current fav are the treal aluminum oil filled shocks with the vlp springs off the double barrels. I’ve just come to like a bit shorter shock most of the time myself though.

@@2fmrc I really appreciate the response, I love Treal, right now just rocking the steering links but I’ll grab those shocks for sure! Thanks again, keep the great builds and videos coming!

That’ll be next!

Yeah it’s not really noticeable with these gears but I’ve ran some higher overdrive in my Capra and it was way too much. Felt like you were dragging the rear end everywhere. The sweet spot on my Capra is about 24% overdrive. Just barely noticeable but still has the benefit of tighter turns and slightly better climbing. These are only like 14% so not hardly even noticeable when driving.

Thanks! Really appreciate it

Thanks man!

Thanks! It’s been a lot of fun

Really appreciate it! I’ll get to work on an update! I’ve had so much stuff rolling in I can’t keep up lol

I’m with you Justin. Getting into 1/24 rc cars for myself and my nephews. Their dad just bought himself a gladiator so now all together we have 3 c-10 and 2 gladiator. Too much fun.

Yeah I didn’t need exacts. Just curious how the temp would raise with and without the gears. Same setting,same motor only difference was gears so it’s close enough. Really didn’t even matter because the gears cause no extra heat at all.

Thanks so much! I can definitely do that!

Yeah I think I may put a set in the front and rear of my dig rig. It’s a bit slow. Try to give it some added speed lol

@@2fmrc and for the dig rig it would be perfect cus you already run overdrive through 2 motors with tuning.

@@motododo4626 yep! I’m gonna need to order more 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@2fmrc the good thing is they are fairly affordable

I ordered a set from amazon and a set straight from treal. Wasn’t sure which would come 1st lol

I have found myself in the brass hole and just practice short lines to avoid burning anything out meanwhile. The whole brass thing was far too easy to fall into as a newbie like me lol

Yeah to me the C10s tires are way better. I’ve never been able to get much of anything out of the nittos! The C10 is also about 1000 times better than that enduro imo 😆

Thanks so much! I would glue the servo saver on the stock servo and get some tires honestly. Then once that servo dies or you have the cash for a servo definitely replace it next!

@@2fmrc Okay! Sounds good! Thanks🤙

Also I was wondering which tires I should get? I'm planning on getting the seafoam green c10 so...

Im probably gonna try a set in my other C10 and it has the barrage so we shall see. I haven’t had to deal with their customer service but the one time when I didn’t get a response. I have however talked to a couple people who put me in touch with who I do need to talk to in the event I need something again. So I’m chalking the last incident up to maybe I emailed the wrong person or something and giving them another chance because they do make some awesome scx24 stuff 🤷🏻‍♂️

Heck yeah! I’m running a switch for the headlights on most of mine. Need to take the time to install some taillights etc on one of them!

Yeah with no traction it’s just more spinning lol. I knew if I didn’t test it with a stock truck someone would be screaming why did I test with a highly modified rig 😂. I’ll be testing them in some modded trucks next!

Oops you just said that sorry

@@curtisd6112 haha! At least you watched that far into the vid!!! Thanks for that lol. Thanks for the comment also. Always welcome new ideas. I don’t know all that much honestly. I’ve just tried quite a bit of stuff lol

I use the ES08MAllD which is the digital. The analog isn’t much different. I have one of those as well. Can’t really tell much difference in them.

Yeah I can try to do that. I really didn’t do much but trim the stock servo tray and mount to the bottom tabs of the reefs. I did have to do away with the bumper mount but I didn’t run the lower bumper anyway. Then I spread the chassis rails a bit. Not too bad of an install!

The overdrive helps the front spin before the rear a bit. It helps on steep inclines where the rear wheels will sometimes cause you to loop out or lift the front end. With the front sort of engaging first and harder than the rear it’ll sort of pull the truck up the hill. It also helps turning radius because the front sort of drags the rear a bit. Kinda like using dig on the rear when turning but not fully engaging it. As far as the motor getting hot I just replace that stock junk ASAP lol

@@2fmrc cool! It makes sense now, but at the same time it negates the possibility of getting bigger tires

@@guillermosuarezlecuona860 why? I run all sorts of tires on it with the od. Works the same

What I was told is that there isn't enough room in the axle housing to put a bigger gear, so it wouldn't be possible to put in an underdrive gear. At least not in the stock housings.

Yes it does! Helps a decent amount with turning honestly.

@@2fmrc that's good to know! Thanks for the reply. I may do the mod just got that reason, I'm sure it's not night and day but any little bit helps especially with my indoor course. Since I don't have a lot of space, there's a lot of tight spots where just a little bit would help. Thanks again and have a great day!

I really like the 2/13 set. They didn’t have those when I made this vid but they give just a little more overdrive and are what I usually purchase now.

Lol didn’t mean to tease with them but man they are killer!

@@2fmrc ya ya....🤣

@@tiredofinsanity hopefully you’ll get yours soon! Any update on when the Betty ships? I want mine! Lol

@@2fmrc I was looking at it yesterday doesn't say anything yet...I'm excited though. I can't decide if I will do something cool with it or just kind of keep it as is...it's gonna be a hard choice

Yep! They always are. Just make sure your gear mesh isn’t too tight but it is definitely louder afterward.

I kinda touched on that toward the end a bit. Pull the sticker off the motor,place a small magnet or heatsink on it and that will help some. That’s about all you can do really. Don’t add too much rotational weight (like in the wheels) but I know we all like heavy rigs lol

Definitely more power/torque. I installed my 1st one when my Yota became pretty heavy. The stock motor would just stall out and couldn’t hardly pull it in certain situations. The barrage pulled it no problem. So now I just slap it in every truck I get lol

@@2fmrc mines got a 79' ford model body, I think it will definitely be a worthwhile upgrade along with some cr18 wheels/tires and double barrel shocks. thanks for the response, greatest 1/24 content on youtube man.

On a stock truck they are the same front and rear.

in the front. helps it climb better.

No issues at all. You would think it would cause issues but I’ve always ran OD in my 1/10 rigs and now I don’t run a 1/24 without it either lol. I’m actually running the more aggressive 23% they came out with now.

Would be nice for sure!

They are out of stock on amazon. Have plenty on the treal site tho! trealhobby.com/products/treal-axial-scx24-steel-gears-overdrive-od-differential-gears

Haha! I don’t even run one with the stock motor any more! Basically like all rtrs. Toss the electronics and move on lol

@@2fmrc thanks for replying. Love you videos dude.

Having 2 different gear sets will cause binding in the transmission. No different on real 4x4 trucks. Old tires and new tires cause binding in the transfer case. Thats .25 to .5 of an inch. A bigger motor with more torque with gears would benefit. I'm thing of the t14 with my torquebeast

It really depends on the truck. I like the Aluminum oil filled carismas on a heavier rig with lots of flex. The aluminum hobbyplus cr24s are good on a mid flex type rig kinda like my Jeep was when I had it. The double barrels work well on a really light weight rig that you want a lot of flex on. The build I’m working on now I have the aluminum oil filled shocks from Treal with some vlp springs from a set of double barrels installed on them cause the ones they come with are too stiff imo and they seem really good so far. I just got that build together today and haven’t even really decided on a body or a few other things for it but the little bit of testing I did with it they seemed to do really well. Hope that helps even though it’s kinda a round about answer lol

@@2fmrc i'm figuring it out pretty quick. Thx for the tips.

Did you install the o rings? One in each side of the worm gear?

@@2fmrc I did. Everything is there how it should. Greased. Even with the drive shaft off just trying to spin the axel in near impossible but if you take the worm gear out the axe moves freely

I ran a magnet on several motors until I upgraded them for better. Never had an issue with them. I see people burning them up all the time and I honestly have only killed one. Mostly got tired of them being weak and upgraded but the only one I actually killed was in a jeep I picked up used already. Usually people have binding issues or add too much weight. That’s when the stock motor really struggles.