Running the truck 8:40 Installed an Arrma Safe-D5 20t pinion today. Pinion no longer slips on the motor shaft. I was finally able to get one full run out of the truck. Truck now backflips easier than my Kr8ton.
I have done the same thing on my XRT, and it runs great. The original pinion spur broke multiple times, since I have done this upgrade it has not been an issue.
Just stripped out my garbage B&M Gears. I use wfo gears. I’m going back to that. I make a notch where the gear grub screw sits. And d bore gears are the way to go. Wfo has that D bore design. Great video and great info! 👍
So actually noticed on my xmaxx that the pinion wasn't tapped all the way through so the grub screw would bottom out in pinion before fully grabbing flat on motor. Quick run of tap and problem solved.
Ive just tried this and I'm going to wait for the locktite to dry. I know the feeling of the stock gears a d this happening constantly. You definately do need to dremmel the motor shaft though.
Hi buddy I run a 1600kv in one of my X Maxx's with with maxx 5 esc and I'm very happy with power and torque. I've had that problem but cleaning all the cast steal fragments and putting machined pinion gears and spur fixed the problem..
@@xuimod I made it through 1 fully charged set of packs with this gear. The set screw continues to back loose. It would have walked off the motor shaft except I ended up drilling a divot hole where the set screw goes so it stayed on the shaft but rocked and wobbled on the motor shaft. I felt that this could lead to incorrect mesh and gear damage. I am now trying the Tekno pinion with the larger M5 set screw and will see how that works.
I drench my Pinon and set screw in red Loctite. Never had an issue with it coming off. And when needing to get the pinion off I heat it with a propane torch as to only let the tip of the flame hit the set screw. Hold it there about 5 - 8 seconds and boom easy come off... Counting on that flat spot as backup if the set screw comes out is a no no that can round out easy. I can send pics or vid if you want of what I do.
No I did all that. Nothing has ever worked till the Arrma Dsafe pinion. I’ve put about 5 runs on it now and I’m still not having issues. Best mod I’ve done for the xmaxx yet.
@@JasonPerrinRCVlogs hey good to hear it... However you get it done... I went thru about 5 pinions and 7 - 10 spurs so I'm keeping fingers crossed. The ones in now have been bashed to heck for 3 weeks now!
Any chance they fixed this on the newer models? I just bought the xmaxx a couple days ago but haven't been able to drive it yet because we had a couple big snow storms.
I was running 17/54 for a while and never had problems. I put hatchet tires on so i put 18/54 back on and now i cant get mine pinion to stay on. Does the arrma 18 pinion work with a stock traxxas 54 spur
I want my 1600xl back, my 1600 seized up after 3-4 years so Traxxas sent me a new one for 100 bucks, problem is it’s a 1200, there’s a huge difference in speed and power
@@JasonPerrinRCVlogs when you do it, please talk about it in a video. Im running 17/54 and about 15mins of hard running my motor is like 165 to 170. So i wana upgrad my fans. I dont think they push air good enough
@@JasonPerrinRCVlogs yes bashing and temps are good!!i had trenchers on with 22/50 and she did 48 mph!!the trenchers kept the wheelies down a little more but the scorpions are a little lighter!bash on !!!
