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I've never read the manual for the early RC10, I do have it in PDF, just didn't know that was in there. It's a great idea, and seeing as I'm going to be rebuilding a lot of shocks in the near future, I want to do this to all of them. Much thanks for letting me know this is how it was done! Funny pa...

Holy smokes, Mike!

A few parts from FanRC for a couple future builds arrived yesterday.
Everything looks nice; those shocks are impressive!. We'll see how they build but the parts certainly look high quality.

Funny part is they didn't add that part of the instructions to the 40th manual and only show 2 small spacers on the shaft, no surprise if you run the car that way the axles hit the arms which led me to look up the old instructions. https://i.imgur.com/w1eK5fD.jpg There are a couple big differences ...

I entered a car show with my Beetle. Didn't win.

Funny part is they didn't add that part of the instructions to the 40th manual and only show 2 small spacers on the shaft, no surprise if you run the car that way the axles hit the arms which led me to look up the old instructions. https://i.imgur.com/w1eK5fD.jpg There are a couple big differences ...

There are a few reasons that any well built trans will not spin for the purported 15 seconds. Friction from the felt seals And more notably the grease in the bearings. Also excessive side play in both the idlers and out drives that can cause the gears to wobble. With the felt seals removed and all o...

In 2013 I built up a completely stock rere trans and didn't touch the gears. This was assembled with the stock bushings not bearings. When under load bushings are far less efficient but as far as the spin test went, it was miles ahead of the original 6 gears. for some reason the link isnt working, h...

yeah the youtube embedding isnt working, i edited with an external link. Not much to see, but you can tell its smooth and thats what is important. Oiled bearings vs greased will make a HUGE difference. We are running chinese $1 a pop bearings these days vs the $80 high end NMB bearings sets back in ...

GreenBar0n

Have you also done the pinned diff ring mod, is that worth doing?

A couple of my cars do have pinned diff rings. I did run them in the 80's and 90's.
But I also ran CA glued rings

If I were racing today I would probably have pinned rings. It's just a little insurance.


Chuck

Awesome to see your replica decals are on their way. On the wheel nuts, how're you having The Dead Pool versions differ from his standard knockoffs?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/201754071816

... We are running chinese $1 a pop bearings these days vs the $80 high end NMB bearings sets back in the day. That's true and the difference is night and day. I have some of those early metal shielded bearings and they're still smooth and spin forever. By contrast, I've had to replace many of the ...

Black clodbuster came today and I picked up a restore project. Tamiya Falcon.

There are a few reasons that any well built trans will not spin for the purported 15 seconds. Friction from the felt seals And more notably the grease in the bearings. Also excessive side play in both the idlers and out drives that can cause the gears to wobble. With the felt seals removed and all ...

Dangeruss wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 8:23 pm Is there a workaround for posting links with .webp file extensions? The insert image button doesn't seem to get along with Webp images.

The fix is for me to add it as a supported image extension in which I just did. I tested it out, and it works great. Enjoy!