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Old 02-19-2012 | 07:13 AM
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Default RE: Caldera 10 e


ORIGINAL: Wasiq


ORIGINAL: JRockZ

Wasiq, Sounds like maybe you had your gear mesh way to tight and now you wore everything down, just replace them, its not common for them to wear fast so make sure you check your gear mesh. If you front diff is making noise and your front shafts arent bent and when you loosen the diff case up if the noise goes away then its probably a bad set of gears inside, take it apart and inspect it, and post us some pics lets see whatcha got.
As for the servo, its junk buty yourselfa 30 dollar HiTech 645MG you will be much happier with it than a standard servo.
Here is a pic. Lemme know what u think rock. And how do i adjust the mesh?
ive checked the driving and driven bevel gears in the diff but i havent opened the diff itself coz i dont have a diff fluid available in my country. Bevels seem to be just fine.

I have already got a backup servo, its a bluebird 10.5kg, metal gear servo, so im not bothered there .<br type="_moz" />
Wow! i'd say from the looks of that you have probably just gotten alot of use from it am i right? for sure looks like you need a replacement set of gears there.
As for the diff gears fluid or not, i would take it apart you can keep whats in the gears for now and still inspect the gears but my guess is it probably going to be they are probably dry, ive not yet had to take my diffs apart but from what ive seen how they look in pics etc,,, they look very similar to my ofna diffs. Ofna send thiers out dry when they are new just a bit of grease on them no fluid in them so i think you could at minimum until you get diff fluid take it apart and put it back together with just some grease and or try and do your best to keep in there whats already in there.
Sounds like your set with the servo for now so no worries there.
Good luck!