As some of you may be aware, I've had several issues with my Kronos over the past few months and have been getting particularly frustrated at the money I have kept pouring it to try and resolve all the issues I have been seeing.
I had decided around Christmas time that I would just replace the whole rig with an Arrma Kraton 6S. By the time I got around to ordering it, it is completely out of stock all the way throughout Europe with model stores having no ideas when it will be back in stock and has been this way for a couple of months now.
That being said, I have now decided to spend that money instead on a smaller, cheaper rig (perhaps a cheap drifter or on-road car) and use the rest of the money to fix up the Kronos once and for all.
I am going to fix my ESC issues discussed in another thread by replacing the Torox with a Max8 G2 (keeping the Kuron motor).
The other main frustration I am having with the Kronos is the fact that it keeps stripping diffs (main bevel gear in the front/rear diffs).
I think I have replaced the diff gears a total of 3 or 4 times in a matter of months including a full diff replacement.
The usual scenario is that I notice the grinding sound, find the stripped gear, replace it. I then run it happily on 4S and everything sounds nice and happy. Run a couple of packs through it and then try the 6S. 1/4 of the way through the pack, crunch crunch.
Possibly the first time it happened was general wear and tear, after replacing it the first time, I had no real clue about the purpose of the shim and didn't position it correctly so stripped it again very soon afterwards.
The next time I replaced it, I made very sure that the shim was positioned correctly and the diffs spur and pinion gears were well meshed.
However, it has still stripped again under 6S power.
I would like to try and resolve this issue once and for all and so will likely buy a whole bunch of replacement parts. I'm fairly sure that both diff housings are fine so I may leave those as is but will likely replace all diff related bearings, the shims and the stripped spur again.
Is there anything else that I can easily replace or look at changing? I will of course be checking all pinions whilst I am in there.
I did watch a video before about what shims before where the guy added an additional shim / changed to thicker shims in his Arrma since the "gears can move as they bed in". Is this a general practice?
I had decided around Christmas time that I would just replace the whole rig with an Arrma Kraton 6S. By the time I got around to ordering it, it is completely out of stock all the way throughout Europe with model stores having no ideas when it will be back in stock and has been this way for a couple of months now.
That being said, I have now decided to spend that money instead on a smaller, cheaper rig (perhaps a cheap drifter or on-road car) and use the rest of the money to fix up the Kronos once and for all.
I am going to fix my ESC issues discussed in another thread by replacing the Torox with a Max8 G2 (keeping the Kuron motor).
The other main frustration I am having with the Kronos is the fact that it keeps stripping diffs (main bevel gear in the front/rear diffs).
I think I have replaced the diff gears a total of 3 or 4 times in a matter of months including a full diff replacement.
The usual scenario is that I notice the grinding sound, find the stripped gear, replace it. I then run it happily on 4S and everything sounds nice and happy. Run a couple of packs through it and then try the 6S. 1/4 of the way through the pack, crunch crunch.
Possibly the first time it happened was general wear and tear, after replacing it the first time, I had no real clue about the purpose of the shim and didn't position it correctly so stripped it again very soon afterwards.
The next time I replaced it, I made very sure that the shim was positioned correctly and the diffs spur and pinion gears were well meshed.
However, it has still stripped again under 6S power.
I would like to try and resolve this issue once and for all and so will likely buy a whole bunch of replacement parts. I'm fairly sure that both diff housings are fine so I may leave those as is but will likely replace all diff related bearings, the shims and the stripped spur again.
Is there anything else that I can easily replace or look at changing? I will of course be checking all pinions whilst I am in there.
I did watch a video before about what shims before where the guy added an additional shim / changed to thicker shims in his Arrma since the "gears can move as they bed in". Is this a general practice?