2 questions i need someone to answer

[Andrew the RC man]

1. can some explain the whole gear ration thing and also tell me how the pitch and teeth thing is????? i am clueless about that stuff

2. Does anyone know a site that shows you how to rebuild shocks? i need to rebuild a ton of my shocks but i dont know how. :confused:

[kojak61]

http://rcvehicles.about.com/hobbies/rcvehicles/mbody.htm try here

[R/C Homie]

to rebuild shox just tak um apart put on one of the little clips where it goes then the little ummm black round DAAAAA i dont know cya

[DerekB]

Andrew,

Peter just wrote an excellent article on building the perfect shocks in the April issue of RC Car Action, check it out.

A gear ratio, put simply, is the ratio between two different gears. Example-if you have a 100-tooth spur gear and a 10-tooth oinion the gear ratio for those two gears would be 10:1. Or it takes 10 revolutions of the pinion to rotate the spur gear once (regardless of pitch). To find the final drive ratio you take the transmission ratio and multiply it by the pinion/spur ratio. Say the tranny had a 3:1 ratio that would give you a final drive ratio of 30:1.

Pitch is basically the size of the teeth. The bigger the number the smaller the teeth (64-pitch). The smaller teeth allow finer tuning of the gear ratio, but are more sensitive to gear mesh and abuse. That's why most on-road cars use 64-pitch and off road electric uses 48-pitch.

Hope I helped,

Derek

[DerekB]

Andrew, If you are talking about gearing (what size pinion) refer the manual for recommendations.

[Railman]

DerekB, Nice try! :D

[Andrew the RC man]

well is it better to have more teeth or less teeth???

[Fred Sambo]

well, i think we all know what his dentist would say!

[chizzler]

haha, year old threads, what fun! :)

[pudder]

For the pitch Q, TC's and pancars will have 64 pitch, sometimes 48, modern trucks usually have 48 and older ones, or nitro usually have 32 I think. You will want to gear your car appropriate to the track, so more or less teeth cannot really be answered unless you know the track.

-mike