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I made a dumb rookie mistake before doing enough research and tried dying my sledgehammer gearbox with hot water, thus warping it. As I'm sure a lot of you know, the part Traxxas 1681 is near impossible to find, and I'd rather not buy an entire vehicle just when I need the gearbox. I was reading ano...

I've been slowly rebuilding and modding a Nitro USA-1 in my spare time. I found and purchased the steel gears for the front and rear differentials, and upon some research on here decided to fill the diffs with oil vs grease. However, even with brand new seals, the diffs have been leaking oil. Am I d...

Thanks for all the help and info! I'll have to figure out which weight oil to use for the diffs. And I guess I should start a build thread for my first one on the forum! Kinda still up in the air as far as what I'd like to do with the truck, still on the hunt for a set of decent condition stock whee...

I'm rebuilding a Nitro USA-1, did some research to beef up the diffs and came up with the essentials (BSW1, BSW2, and BS41) https://www.flickr.com/gp/157316281@N05/3p20U8 My question is, being that I couldn't exactly find the best description online on how to properly build the diff with these *new*...

So last week I was able to pick up Nitro USA-1 bare chassis in great shape for a really good price. I've always wanted one, and understand parts are hard to find and rare, but was hoping for some help as I haven't had the best luck finding much info as I plan to actually put an engine in it and run ...

Awesome! Thanks for the help, I will give it a try. I was just a little scared to try it at first due to not wanting to ruin the tires, as well as just the fact that I have never used acetone with rc cars before

Hey guys, First off, sorry I am new to this forum! So I was unsure where to post this question! Just recently resurrecting a few projects to run, and a few to build as shelf queens I have a set of IMEX tires that are in good shape that I'm hoping to fix so that I can put them on a shelf queen MRC Th...