TheKennyKiller

I'm trying to figure out why I have so much wobble in my wheels and tires on my E-Revo. I definitely don't have water in them. The stock wheels were wobbling like they were off balance new from the box so I just thought that the wheels were off balance, I got some proline wheels and big joe tires thinking that might fix the problem but it is still there and now it is worse because the tires I got are really heavy. So I took all the wheels off and started to run the truck slowly on my workbench and I can see that the drive-shafts all seem to have wobble in them like they are not perfectly straight. I had a spare new complete drive-shaft from my old 3.3 I had years ago so I put that in and it to had the same wobble. To me it almost feels like the plastic drive-shafts have been warped from being in a hot car parked in the sun or something like that but I haven't done anything like that and I would have thought that that plastic would not warp easily. I'm going to order the steel drive-shafts as soon as tower has them in stock and I hope that fixes my problem but I live in Australia and I won't see them for a month or more so in the mean time if anyone has any ideas on what might be causing this or weather steel drive-shafts will be my best bet to fix it please let me know, my truck is only about 3 weeks old. It is so bad with the new tires that on the street it feels more like I'm driving a washing machine on spin cycle than a Brushless E-Revo with precision handling.

TheKennyKiller

Not sure if this will shed any light but the right front and left rear drive-shafts have more vibration or wobble than the other two.

Foxy

Bearings?

Brainanator

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big joes....LOL. Those are huge floppy tires, even if you perfectly balanced them they will unevenly distort and flop around somewhere near 35mph.

Link119

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Washing machine?

TheKennyKiller

Thanks Foxy they are a bit dirty I'll give them a clean and see if it helps.

TheKennyKiller

what sort of tires would you recommend for hard dirt tracks and running on the street ? I mainly bought the big joes for a rocky hill climb area that I like to go to and I was just testing them out on the street so I expected them to balloon but not vibrate like they do... I'll try to make a video tomorrow and see if I can show you all the vibration with and with out the tires on.

TheKennyKiller

I made a quick video. It's a bit hard to see but if you keep one eye on the top a-arm and the other on the driveshaft you can see it appears slightly curved. I know it doesn't seem like much but could it be the reason my wheels seem so out of balance or am I just being paranoid ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WYpRVIFqg

t9dragon

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They looked warped to me.

ThunderbirdJunkie

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Stock Savage X/X4.6/Flux tires. Light weight and decent all-around traction.

TheKennyKiller

These ones ?

http://www.hpiracing.com/products/en/4462/

will they fit on traxxas wheels or any other wheels that fit the revo?