Hi it's not that the newer tanks with the new radio should have a new style slipper unit it's just that the abrams and leaopards the first tanks made still use the same old gear box with the clicker slipper clutch but now have new electronics.

and the other tanks the newer styles have new style gear boxes with different clutches.

And your tank should not do what it is doing i had over 30 1/24 scale tanks and only had one do what you are talking about and i have went to parks and run them for hours till the batteries died on hot sunny days and they never failed...in fact to tell you the trouth the 1/24 scale tanks are strong and hardly ever break down.


it probably is a good i dea to do a break in with the tank held up off the ground and with tracks off run it on low power for like 15 min or so.