Any gear diff magicians?

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Any gear diff magicians?

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I'm a ball diff guy through and through but my latest purchase (T4.1) came with a gear diff of all things :roll:

I've never driven a 2wd car with a gear diff that I've liked so far .... sooooo....

Anyone who really has a handle on car tuning know what oil would give a similar feel to a ball diff? At least a "starting" point (for mod) with oil in which you don't overpower and drive through the diff in the corner but not so stiff that the car doesn’t turn either.
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Is there any initial settings in the manual?

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The T4.1 manual I have doesn't show the gear diff.... The RTR manual might?
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Yeah I looked too. The rtr shows them adding associated black grease. Looking a little farther, I saw a few threads on the internet and someone said 50k diff fluid is what most people run in a t4. 2 gear diff. That would be my start.

I suppose it's also similar to an sc10, wonder what that manual says.

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The consensus that I read was somewhere between 3k - 7k. I assume that's the standard 4 gear though.
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50K just seems way to thick, but without feeling their set up I couldn't say for sure.

I had a bottle of Kyosho 5000wt so I shot the middle and went with that, feels good but we'll see how it goes....
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