hoveyhere

i just recently purchaed aredcat tornado xp , ididnt even get the motor broke in before the gears and bell housing went out can someone tell me what to replace these with besides redcat junk . help please , i didnt even run this car 20 minutes. thanks chris

ThunderbirdJunkie

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I thought they were coming with hardened steel clutchbells now?

MiniCwik

I thought so too? Maybe he got one just before the swap from someone's inventory?

Anyway, yes there are plenty of alternatives out there. Get a hardened steel one, check out www.clermontmotorsports.com or www.allaboutfunhobbies.com

They have the best prices, best service, and fastest shipping around!

Check this thread out for more detail/info: http://www.redcatrc.com/forum/viewto...=25&highlight=

ehroof

you need the redcat spur gears:
http://www.clermontmotorsports.com/s...le-gear/Detail
http://www.clermontmotorsports.com/s...le-gear/Detail

and this hpi setup for a clutch bell:
upgrade your 2 speed clutch bell to: http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...4&I=LXCLR2&P=K + http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...4&I=LXDHM0&P=K + http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...4&I=LXCLR9&P=K
you may need to widdle away a little of the upper plate post so the gears clear it

upgrade to this clutch spring while you have the clutch bell off:
traxxas 4146x : http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...=++&search3=Go

rclynx

Hey ehroof have you put all those URL's on a MACRO key yet LOL

ehroof

i should, i just copy and paste it now.

martno1fan

these trucks do come with the new metal clutchbell and spur gear i just got one on ebay pretty cheap so hopefully the problems are now solved?.hope so anyway its for my ten yr olds birthday in june,looks like a pretty good truck for the money as i got it for way under half price if not 1/3rd having paid £76 for it brand new .

rclynx

Its your duty to test it as many times as necessary to determine if its fixed properly

martno1fan

not mine to play with i doubt ill be able to prise his fingers off the controlls ,what was the orriginal clutch bell and spur gear made from?.this ones deff metal maybe ali .

AllAboutFunHobbies

Stock clutch bell is cast aluminum.

martno1fan

is that the new 2007 model or all models as i thought the orriginal ones were not aluminium? if they were what was the problem with them.

AllAboutFunHobbies

All the 1/10th scale models have cast aluminum clutch bells, the 1/8th scales have machined hardened steel clutch bells. The problem with the aluminum ones is that when they get hot they warm and strip out your spur gear, the gear on the clutch bell also wears out VERY fast and will strip out your spur gears, the aluminum clutch shoes wear out the inside of the clutch bell uber fast too, clutch shoe spring is week and breaks easily.

tom5252

i had a 1st geat strip out on my tornado xp for no reason.

tom

ehroof

the reason it usually the out of round aluminum clutch bell (stock), you need to upgrade to an hpi setup, its all in the faq thread on top (sticky).

martno1fan

does this include the new tyrano clutch bell on the vx.18 engine?.i thought id read the problems had been solved on these cars now?.

ehroof

if its silver, its aluminum, if its black, its steel

martno1fan

thanks for that so which clutch bell is a straight swap for the ali one? do you have a link to it.

ehroof

single speed its this one http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXLST9&P=7

The_Shark

now i am going to buy one of these cars, either the tremor or the xp.

what i think is happening is that the two speed is absent of the important slipper clutch. like all you know the slipper well, slips if there is excess torq on the drive tran. when your driving your car off road the gears are subjected to diferating pressure, this pressure is highest when jumping, accelerating or during the second gear transition. when you mix cheap plastic with no slipper and high torq you are asking for trouble.

i belive the gearbox was developed for the on road cars because the terrain is flat and is not subjected to massive load, they figured to give everybody two speed and keep the cost of desighning down.
so, i would only get the single speed tranny, just put in a spur with less teeth.

when i get a car im going to swap the spur with a traxxas (if capatible) traxxas makes a strong gear.

The_Shark

im so smart trying to reason with a ghost thread. (2006)

123michael

i dont think they sell xp eny more

FlyinGN

just to clarify. The NEW single speeds are steel silver. You have to use a magnet to see for sure if you have steel or aluminum.

The_Shark

what is the difference with xl? so are the gears all aluminum or steel alloy? and do they put them in tremors?

ehroof

the xl is a 1/10 buggy and it has a steel clutch bell and upgraded clutch shoes and spring, the tremor is a 1/16th, totally different.

krave73

Whats up Hooked. Im sooo with you on this. I was getting ready to buy one on Friday (payday) but htis thread has me second guessing this company. If you got an answer on this situation let me know. Or anyone else to that fact.