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Old 01-13-2011 | 02:27 PM
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Default RE: Vid on Earthquake/Backdraft diff Shimming

Itnever crosed my mind that you were bashing Redcat in your vids and all you are doing in there is providing a great service to the ones of us who have the cars with the loose diff assemblies that are or will fail because of it.

The point I am making is thatIthink a lot of the bad stuff out there about Redcat cars is do to issues like these obvioustolerance problems that could be easily addressed, and need to be very quickly or the business will suffer for it, that is not bashing that is simply stating the facts, I hate to see good people and a good company that has poured there heart and soul into putting an affordable product out in the market place have trouble because they do what they do to makemoney but alsotheir efforts arefor theones of us who either cant or are unwilling to spend the huge doubled& tripledsums of money some of the other brands charge for there not all that much better stuff, I have to admit that I'm new to the game here but I have been pouring through information, asking loads of questions and scanning many sites relating to these many cars and trucks and it seems to me that the main problem most seem to be having with some of the Redcat vehicles is the drivetrain, spur gears....Pinion gears and some may have some weak areas in the suspension, from some of the reports I've seen but overall I think the Redcat stuff is darn well good for the price.

its as simple as some shims as you have done and wala......! the diff dont hand grenade almost straight out of the box, this should be addressed in manufactering proccess so these diffs quit failing so easy, this would be a win win for everyone, this would be much easier than retooling at the factory and casting diff cases with better tolerances, just a couple shims and the diffs will be good for a lot of trouble free running and this prevents people from having something thats logit to bash the company over.

To much competition out there to make too many quality control mistakes in todays market place, it'll kill ya in business


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I am not trying to bash Redcat with these vids......... I may have got a bad batch of diff cases and that is what caused the probs........ After shimming I had no problems and others with these have had problems and some not..... Some people on line had asked what I did and I posted it............Plus I like tinkering with these things cause I like building and working and racing full size cars but with the economy what it is I had to find a cheaper hobby for the time being.