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[abraksith]

Hey there. I'm brand spanking new to the R/C hobby. Just got a tamiya Subaru WRC TT-01 kit, put it together on friday took like 6 hours, had to solder one of the motor wires on, and rewire the battery connector for the receiver. Ran it around the house a bit, worked great, even got it drifting on the wood floors to the complete surprise of my cat. Yesterday I took it out to the park, ran the car on cement, at some point I oversteered and smashed it almost full speed into a tree trunk, no body damage, but now it makes a funny noise when I throttle like the gear is slipping, and the wheels barely turn. I took a look at the pinion and spur gears yesterday neither looks damaged. Was wondering if any of you know what might be wrong before I take apart the rear end and both diffs. thanks in advance.

[TraxMaxx24]

It might be the dog bones. Are they like the traxxas ones? just a solid peice of plastic, or are they metal? That has happened to my with my electric rustler. The dog bone was loose and almost falling off, it mad a weird noise and the wheels hardly moved at all. it might be that.

[SteveK]

If they are like the TL-01 dogbones, then they are metal shafts with a plastic sphere connecteding them. You will probably just have to take the diffs apart to see what might be broken.

[abraksith]

Doh, just figured it out. The durned lil grub screw on the pinion gear gone done fell out. Thankfully, there's an extra one in the kit. But if it keeps falling out dunno what I will do. and yeah the dogbones are part metal part some kind of composite, doesn't look like the rest of the body.

[mt threat]

Doh, just figured it out. The durned lil grub screw on the pinion gear gone done fell out. Thankfully, there's an extra one in the kit. But if it keeps falling out dunno what I will do. and yeah the dogbones are part metal part some kind of composite, doesn't look like the rest of the body.

Use a little dab of blue Loc-Tite on the screw.

[abraksith]

Use a little dab of blue Loc-Tite on the screw.Aha, u r a grub saviour, will try that today

[ducati777]

Good ol' grub screw. That catches a lot of people. Used to be a problem on my 8th scale buggy, its got a grub screw on just bout everything.

Anyway welcome to the hobby, and its cool you came here lookin for help instead of paying the LHS.

[abraksith]

thanks for the welcome, and if i had a decent LHS i might have gone there. Alas one of the biggest cities in the world is sorely lacking in decent LHS stores. the only one I know of is up in the Bronx and that is waaaaaaaay too far for a brooklyn boy.