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I would

And did!

Ok, I just looked up top shafts on ebay. I will dig out my original manual to get the correct shaft number.

Cheers

top shaft is different! The original wont fit the updated slipper. You can either get another stock one for the rere or space the inner hub so it wont rub

have a look at this thread- http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=33974

looks like an Associated 9602 spacer is the easy fix, but may want to wait for more comments

Of course, different slipper , my bad. Thanks

I used the b4 top shaft (on two stealths) and it works perfect (with the vts slipper).....without any spacers needed.

Reading the comments in that linked thread, it sounds like spacers are needed....wierd. I hope I'm not doing anything wrong...It seems perfect to me.

B4 top shaft works fine with the VTS, no spacers needed here either.

I would think the only time a spacer would be needed is with the crap top shaft, unless a few bogus ones made it out as spare parts.

So I could get a B4 top shaft and it should be ok. Quite frankly Im amazed at the issues guys are having. My original worlds went together no fuss at all and it was my first proper RC car. Pretty poor quality control really. Though for $250 Im not going to complain too loudly. Thanks for all your input guys.

Not that it matters but I'd be interested to see how many top shafts are faulty (assuming some are good) and what the overall $$ figure for Associated to fix the problem is.

They probably cost around $1 or less to manufacture in quantity.

besty22 wrote:So I could get a B4 top shaft and it should be ok.

Can a B4 top shaft be purchased on its own? What's the part number?

Top shaft #9601

RC10th wrote:Top shaft #9601

Thank you

RC10th wrote:Not that it matters but I'd be interested to see how many top shafts are faulty (assuming some are good) and what the overall $$ figure for Associated to fix the problem is.

No telling, but that's why they might be just dumping the cars a 199.00ea. To get rid of the headache.

RC10th wrote:Not that it matters but I'd be interested to see how many top shafts are faulty (assuming some are good) and what the overall $$ figure for Associated to fix the problem is.

i recently bought a worlds kit and 2 of the u.s. stealth kits, from separate places, and 2 out of the 3 had the bad topshaft.

also i should mention that there was something wrong with either the idler or topshaft gears on my re-re worlds stealth.

it was hard to spin by hand, gritty and felt like either the topshaft or idler gear was out of round.

so like... overall my experience the with stealth from the worlds kit was a bad one.