i've never owned either but i'm considering looking for an e-maxx. it seems to be the best electric monster truck i can find. the ease of electrics have been appealing to me more and more lately for the 'plug and play' aspect and not having to fiddle with needles all day although i still do love the nitros.

anyway enough rambling...do the emaxxes have the same weak points that i read about the tmaxxes having on here? i dont know how much, if anything, is carried over from one truck to the other or if their names are close because the same company makes them.

I've had a couple of each of them and really it just depends on how you drive and what kind of power you put to it. The arms and diffs are the same for both trucks if thats what your asking. My emaxx was my race truck and i raced it in the local T maxx class and won with it many times due in part to the smooth transition of power, it can be made a very nice handling truck.

Really about the only problems i had with the E maxx was after i put mod motors and 3300 packs in it the stock sliders would not hold up, after about 2 weeks of qualifying and racing i would pull the sliders apart and notice they were begining to twist ALOT from the mod motors. CVDs ended that problem. Other than that i stripped a couple spur gears and broke a shock end but thats about it on the emaxx.

If you get a emaxx then more than likely you will be bit by the mod motor & hi powered pack bug after awhile so one word of advise. Look into a comm lathe if you get mod motors, i had to cut my comms about every 8 runs with the motors i had to keep full power. Its a pretty good truck though so have fun with it if you pick one up

most of that was greek since the last electric i had ran on a ton of aa's about 12 years ago. i was mainly looking for chassis/suspension parts that were the same but the motor/battery info was something i'll remember. i wont be racing just driving around the yard and stuff. i have enough trouble not destroying rc's in the neighborhood...putting me on a race track would be a waste of everyone else's time.

check your PM's

only problem i had was with my t-maxx was the slipper clutch, it was a lil loose after i put in a new primary gear and pin, but that’s just cus i was lazy and 4got.
and i bet you don’t get a motor replacement guarantee with the e-maxx when the brushes were out do ya?
with the t-maxx you get an engine replacement guarantee thingy, like when the piston and sleve were out you just send it back and you get a new one back for like penny’s!!!

GET A T-MAXX! Other wise just go home lol.

Main differences are the transmission, chassis, and of course tmaxx engine vs emaxx motors and esc. You can go to traxxas' website for details of parts breakdown.

A stock E-Maxx is a pretty durable machine, as long as you don't get it wet.

Problems usually start after adding extra cells to your battery packs. Extra cells have a nasty tendency to burn out ESCs, and put a nasty strain on certain parts. You have to remember that an E-Maxx has a lot more torque than most nitros, so adding even more torque afterward can be pretty hard on stock parts.

Replacing 2 emaxx motors will cost less then replacing an engine with traxxas engine replacement plan. The motors are only 20 bucks, but you can find similar motors for 3 bucks. If you were to chose a truck based on just this, it is very stupid IMHO. The emaxx motors will last a long time if you dont overheat them all the time (im talking years).

i just want something to play with in the house

In the house? Go electric IE emaxx

that was the whole point of this thread. i always read about tmaxxes being brittle and i wondered if emaxxes were the same way.

You are better off getting a mini quake or something of similar scale if you really consider bashing in the house.

those are too small to play with outside. it'll be tame in the hosue but driving an emaxx slowly is better than not driving a tmaxx at all.

Its been a little while since i had my e maxx so i could be wrong, but if i remember correctly wasnt it not recommended to drive the emaxx at low speeds for to long(like indoors would be) because it would heat the speed control up to much? like i said could be wrong but i think i remember somthing along those lines

that makes sense. crap. i dont want to waste money on a tiny truck just drive around the living room.

Like i said i could be wrong so dont take my word for it 100% till somone else knows for sure. If you want somthing thats able to run at part throttle for long periods of time i'd check out the rock crawling section of this site. Those guys build trucks just for running at low speeds so i'm sure they would have some answers and maybe even some tips on how to set it up for controling heat and such at constant part throttle.

Dont you think the emaxx is a bit big to be running in your living room? you must have a gigantic living room [X(]
It is true that driving the emaxx at low speeds heats up the ESC and motors extremly fast. I've never thermaled from excessive low speeds, because im always going really fast. But if you drive it slow for a few minutes, things will usually heat up really good, especially if your going over obstacles.

If your buying a truck thats good both indoors and out.... your sacrificing outdoor performance, which youll get alot more fun out of versus slow indoor driving.

Now you don't make sense. [sm=confused.gif]

this thread took a turn for the worse a long time ago. i was asking about the emaxx because i was thinking of getting an electric truck because they seem easier than nitro to keep running and also being electric could be driven indoors. i wasnt asking about tiny trucks that are pretty much limited to living rooms.

all i wanted to know is if the emaxx breaks as much as i read about the tmaxx going down.

I think your question has been answered already.

half of it has been. i still want to know if they're as brittle as i read about tmaxxes being.

The E-Maxx suffers many of the same problems as the T-Maxx. Quite a few of the parts are identical. A few inexpensive RPM hop-ups take care of 90% of the issues, if you ask me.

As to whether the problems are as bad as you've read...... I can't answer that, as I haven't a clue as to what you've read.

I will say that I don't do a heck of a lot of jumping, and have yet to break a single part of my E-Maxx. My Maxx has been rolled a billion times and run into a few mailboxes. The body looks like heck, but the truck itself is still in beautiful condition.

I say get a nitro and run that in the living room