Originally Posted by
yoshigt2
I'm wondering about the durability of the Tamiya gearboxes. I love my Tiger I, decided to add some more to it. Picked up an ammo crate, bucket, metal crank handle, and metal tracks for it from Tankzone.com.
I know the tracks will be added stress for the motors, but how does anyone think the gearboxes will hold up?
Well, a lot of variables come into play here. Time used, conditions you drive in, YOUR driving and the weight. Usually the first that will fail are the cheap chrome slip-on gears... the final drive gear on the axles. IF you can get a set of IMPACT axles (they have a steel gear welded on the axle) using those will make it a bit more robust.
Keeping them clean of debris, oiled and a good tensioner is a good thing too.
You'll get a lot of ideas and suggestions here but the best one is to run them 'till they fail and worry about it later. Even with plastic tracks... unexpected things can happen.
HTH
Jeff