qwikrobb wrote:I found 3 (NIP) bottles of Hydra Fluid (light,med,heavy) a hobbyshop last week.
Are they worth anything? Put them on the 'bay?
Robb
Something that I remember from hyrdadrive fluids:
Light oil was used always in buggy and on slippery tracks in truck.
Medium oil was used on truck on high bite tracks.
Heavy oil was never used.
FasterLouder wrote:That makes a lot of sense,thanks mate.
I have 2 Hydra equipped cars,now!
Oh... and when You fill hydradrive, try to put the oil in with one "push". Less air goes in that way rather than if You "pump" the bottle. While "pushing" oil in, wait until no bubbles comes out anymore from the other hole. This will take some time and hyrdaoil will makes quite a mess around. So fill hyrdadrive on a paper or something like that. Finally when your figers are white, your hyrdarive is full . Filling hyrdadrive is more physical than technical thing.
I didnt want to open up a thread for a quick question. Could I run the LRM tranny with a hydradrive on it without any juice in it? I didnt know if that would create any problems or not. I will probably convert it to a single slipper one of these days...I just want to run it now.
Momo5 wrote:I didnt want to open up a thread for a quick question. Could I run the LRM tranny with a hydradrive on it without any juice in it? I didnt know if that would create any problems or not. I will probably convert it to a single slipper one of these days...I just want to run it now.
You probably can, but you will need to run it alot tighter than you would if you had fluid in it. In all honestly I wouldn't run it without, get some (original or diff) fluid to put in there first...
AscotConversion wrote:We used to run Losi hydra fluid on 1/12 cars for damper tubes and plates. The Hard stuff is probably about 10K, Med, around 5K, maybe 7, and the light should be about 2K. That is a rough guess based on what we used for an equivalent when they stopped making hydra fluid.
Alright, I'm this close (maybe I can get it finished before the winter haha ) to running my hydra-equipped LRM LXT on my blown up and dusty as heck 8th scale track... and of course I found out the whole thing is all greasy due to the dang hydra that leaked all over the place... which means there isn't much fluid left in there - which means it needs a refill. But with what?
Can anyone who tried confirm the 5K to 10K range is about right (I'll go heavy just to be on the safe side) ? I have these fluids handy at home as I also race 8th scale gas
thanks!
Paul
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YZ-10 wrote:I've seen a few bottles of the original Losi fluid's for sale lately
Yeah I know I just picked one for the sake of it, but I'll have to wait for it to cross the pond, so I'm still looking for a local alternative... guess I'll try some 7K on my own and let you guys know
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