Bonez

diff ones are a pain. held in with a circlip inside the diff.

RW hardened pinion. modelsport sell them. great pinion gears never had one wear out or break

i love my little sand master, its not the best by far but with a 9t brushless in it its a hoot to drive! change the wheels and tyres to some wider buggy ones. FTX vantage ones are a great budget tyre for them. only thing that will drive you mad is the poxy clip on body panels! i run a 2s and 3s lipo in it, both from hobbyking i will get you links to them if you get one as the battery is loaded from below so space is tight. i went and searched for the biggest mah of each i could find that fitted lol all in all tho its a great little buggy for the price! i would go for the kit version, cheaper and you can spec your own radio and running gear. oh and get a RW pinion, stock is plastic and wont last long.

dam it. one off body!

motor sounds ok to me mate. might be worth taking the diff apart to see maybe if it is that or not. at least it will rule it out if it isn't. plus its practice at doing it for servicing wise also just check drive shaft cups are all in order. i think they will be but no harm in checking. it's acting like a stripped gear looking back at it now. happened to me when my spur gear had stripped once.

i think a strip down to see whats wrong is in order mate. the pads are in the slipper is they are worn out then ever tighten down it may still slip.

sure sounds like the slipper is slipping. how where the pads on it? you could always glue it that way you know it's not slipping! also on a side note check your gear mesh, it sounds a little tight.

or if it puts out white smoke its a sign of surrender, which it will probably almost immediatly.

to be honest the traxxas stuff is so crap they always run hot no matter what gearing you use. how are you using 4 channels?

i'm hoping red bull just flop so much they can't even get a race finished. don't know about everyone else but it seem's every sport you watch the leaders or winners are covered in red bull logos! i would like hamilton to win it sure or any other english driver! also i don't want the stuck up arrogant class a reject that is alonso to win either! race's where we don't know who will win etc is what i really want. last year was so predictable, oh it's going to be seb again... fun.. turned it off after a couple of races and never watched another after that.

i'm sure hobbyking do a kit like that. you will be looking for a kit that plugs into channel 1 and 2 on the RX and a lead coming out of the LED control box that the ESC and servo plug into or something similar

you must of had a bad one of drove like a nutta haha all of my tamiya have been super reliable! the only thing i have ever broke is a bodyshell on my fighter bugger and that's it. the traxxas has been worse than all my tamiyas combined.