TRAXXAS XMAXX BELT DRIVE TEST - THIRD TIMES the CHARM 🤞 

For XMAXX stuff, look up exocaged rc! He has ALOT of good information and I believe he ran the belt drive and didnt like it!

Pinion pulley is way to big esc will just cut power due to excessive amp draw per KV selection. You need a 15t Pinion pulley with the 30t spur pulley

Mod 1.5 gears- no issues- just bashing time to enjoy

I might of said this before but your video quality is off the charts 👏 👌

What i’ve learn on xmaxx is if you upgrade your motor to a better one you have to make sure you upgrade you esc and when you upgrade those you differentials front and back and mid will fill that more power so you better be ready to replace because trust me, i experience all of that. Also i put the steel rings for my drive cuffs to.

Omg nolan, injust fix the same issue i got!!! Center torque biasing diff is done!

Can I ask a question? Why is your motor at an opposing angle to your pulley? Should it not be horizontal to it? Maybe the back of the motor needs to be lifted at the ESC end? I am new to this so that's why I'm asking? Thank you

Good thing u have so many rcs, cuzz this one isn't cutting it atm

Upgrade the fan on that ESC. The ESC is a bit small for that motor. Running it hot = you'll kill it eventually. You already see the stock fans just die without warning and make matters even worse.

That bottom shaft sure does move a lot. I'm no expert,but that doesn't seem right. Unless you loosened it prior to filming.

Here is a test, as is lift up the back of your xmaxx now push it forward and pull it backwards while your holding the rear up. Now if the rear has so much delay to spin or not spinning at all it means your center diff is going bad or stripped.

I would ask other people who run this setup and make sure u setup the ESC the second choice for auto shutoff I believe 225

Appreciate yo sharing Nolan. Mod 1.5 you won’t look back .

Those screws clamp down on the bearing. You need all 4 in 100%> good video man. I thought belt drive was for me but it's not after watching what pain you have had to go through.

It might just be the camera but it looks like your motor shaft is bent down. Like the belt system is putting to much tension on your motor shaft.

Try spiral gears and put a silicone earplug in center diff. Really puts the power down.

Wow it actually sounds like an engine Now

man youre having a lot of bad luck with the belt drive when I ran a belt drive on my x maxx for almost 2 years it was perfect bought the pullies and the belt from china for 10 dollars, only problem i encounter was when i wanted to remove the pullies they wouldnt come off lol had to cut them off and decided not to run belt drive again. but i really enjoyed belt drive really really quiet compared to my mod1.5. just bought vitavon gears 3030 and will be trying those.

probabbly the center differential mind did the same a month ago turns put the gears in the centre diff where not touching becuase the bolts on the whole diff housing where starting to come loose.

Almost sounds like a Diff sound.

I can get that esc to overheat in a 10th scale car running an 1/8th scale motor.. what hope does it have pushing that beast around

The belt drive system does pull up on that out-drive much more so than the original geared drive version, so I can see where those missing screws would lead to that problem. Question is, do you have to now replace the entire housing? Or can you install larger diameter screws and get by? You've been more than fair to this belt drive system and from what I'm seeing in the comments, others have not had much luck with this system either, so maybe you're right, its time to move on to something better suited to the power you're using... Either way, this series has been quite interesting to watch and you've provided a lot of useful information in these Nolan! Thanks Brother! :)

My belt drive has been great minus running max 6 little bit of over heating. May have to switch to max 5 or maybe castle xlx. You have some other issues going on.

I wonder if the motor bearings are failing or is it the belt drive. The Mod 1.5 seem like a good upgrade they're is a german company on facebook that makes a cush drive compatible mod 1.5 spur gear. Cool video either way.

Not sure what's wrong with regular spur and pinion gears....the belt drive in theory sounds good but doesn't seem to work to well.....good luck👍

Might as well go back to the stock setup

Bro that is pretty weird I thought the 3rd time was going to be the charm it actually sounds like your death is stripped or has a tooth out of it when you are doing your launches and you have it full throttle and the front wheels are up in the air when it comes back down on just one of your front wheels that puts a tremendous amount of strain on your diffs I do believe I am not sure But I am sure that you will figure this out...

Exploded diff.. I could tell straight away that the diff or final gear in your box has just Exploded. Yes you have taken teeth of the crown gear that's what that noise is 😅

Hmmm I’d say go back to normal gearing and accept some shredded gears before you kill those electronics 😅. I mean surely someone’s figured out how to preserve the xmaxx gears right?

Its your center diff will about to go bad soon.

gotta have an aluminum cover on that with belt drive cause heat will cause it to stretch

You should contact me since we both ran on same issue after upgrading our esc its so funny

but seems your making good progress on this

The sound Look like diff problem

Lol let us know I’m interested now

motor is stripped !!

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good try man

Brushless is becoming almost as unreliable as nitro. At least with nitro you get the sound and smell. And when tuned right they run all day. No diff problems. No potential explosive battery fires. Better in my opinion.

Bad diff

No good ..too slow…