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Stay tuned! 🤩👌

How will this stack up? Kagama LE, Kronos XTR and Kraton EXB V6 shootout - here we come! 😎

Shout-out to Rutt Rider who kindly brought the Kagama LE to SWRCCC at the weekend racing series round 3.

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Pit table absolutely upside down and everything happening all at once. 😅

First job will be to install a FASST receiver and an XT90 battery connector.

Otherwise, I'm going to be running it completely as it arrived. No mods to this one.
 
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First job: centre diff. Front O-ring is blowing oil, so I'm rebuilding it with new o-rings and green slime. Standard RTR issue and fairly common with the Corally stock diff.

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Where the flimsy red O-ring sits (part C-00180-182) sealed up with green slime, as well as the inner part of the O-ring where the output shaft passes through.
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The steel shim now sits on top of an impermeable layer of green slime. It's sealed now. Nothing is getting out.
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It's important this part stays clean and that the holes for the screws don't get contaminated with diff fluid - otherwise your screws can back out.
 
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I'm running with 100000wt - stock LE centre diff. Let's see how it goes with this.

Cause of leak:

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The inner edge of the O-ring is marred. Either due to a burr, or possibly because the O-ring itself was malformed to begin with.
 
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Nelson.81 said:
Have you bought it or just having a play with it?
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It's a permanent addition to the fleet! 👌🤩 Chris has other projects that he's focusing on with his channel and he's back racing again now.

Kagama LE no.660 is now a Horatio project. 🤩

It needs a FASST receiver and a decent AGF 81BHMW. The current Spektrum S665 is marginal. The stock servo saver spring is extremely soft, so before I install the servo, I intend on upgrading with the trusty Lee Spring. 💪👍
 
I have the A73BHLW v2 in my LE and find it has more power than the Lee Spring can transfer reliably. Can you post a video and provide impressions of the A81 after install?

I broke the output gear on three Ipin GX3255’s before giving up on them. Hopefully the AGF servos last.

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Here are the gears of the Ipin vs the AGF beside each other. The AGF are significantly wider.

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Finally, AGF provides replacement gears. I ordered two sets.
 
danl said:
I have the A73BHLW v2 in my LE and find it has more power than the Lee Spring can transfer reliably. Can you post a video and provide impressions of the A81 after install?

I broke the output gear on three Ipin GX3255’s before giving up on them. Hopefully the AGF servos last.

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Here are the gears of the Ipin vs the AGF beside each other. The AGF are significantly wider.

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Finally, AGF provides replacement gears. I ordered two sets.
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Good to know about the YiPin/GX servos.. I have looked at them several times but never pulled the trigger. Also the AGFRC, just can't stomach the pricing. I can't see spending that much on a servo. I've been buying the DS and it's variants for about 6 years now. I know they're slow and likely not putting up the advertised torque but they're cheap as chips and out of nearly a dozen of them I've only had one (I think) failure. More than I can say for TC's servos, every one I or my brother ever had gave up almost immediately. Granted they were all RTR servos.
 
Horatio said:
It's a permanent addition to the fleet! 👌🤩 Chris has other projects that he's focusing on with his channel and he's back racing again now.

Kagama LE no.660 is now a Horatio project. 🤩

It needs a FASST receiver and a decent AGF 81BHMW. The current Spektrum S665 is marginal. The stock servo saver spring is extremely soft, so before I install the servo, I intend on upgrading with the trusty Lee Spring. 💪👍
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I have some spare AliExpress springs if want to try 1 them but as the Lee spring is your baby I understand if just want to go with it
 
danl said:
I have the A73BHLW v2 in my LE and find it has more power than the Lee Spring can transfer reliably. Can you post a video and provide impressions of the A81 after install?

I broke the output gear on three Ipin GX3255’s before giving up on them. Hopefully the AGF servos last.

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Here are the gears of the Ipin vs the AGF beside each other. The AGF are significantly wider.

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Finally, AGF provides replacement gears. I ordered two sets.
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I have a spare set of gears been in the toolbox 2 years 😉
 
danl said:
I have the A73BHLW v2 in my LE and find it has more power than the Lee Spring can transfer reliably. Can you post a video and provide impressions of the A81 after install?

I broke the output gear on three Ipin GX3255’s before giving up on them. Hopefully the AGF servos last.

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Here are the gears of the Ipin vs the AGF beside each other. The AGF are significantly wider.

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Finally, AGF provides replacement gears. I ordered two sets.
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I've not broken a GX3255BLS yet, whiles having them in many of my cars. Bad luck? Or maybe i am to nice with my cars. :unsure:
 
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