AmericanBullDog

Care to elaborate on hardening the gears yourself quite easily?

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Looks like a great candidate for a bikini top cage.

Nicely edited. It's amazing how a little pan and zoom really makes the action come alive. What editing software do you use?

Received some ebay LED lights for my light bar project. I did a quick functions check with a 2s battery and was not very impressed, good thing I didn't pay much for them. At first glance they look like very large LED chips on there but when you look closer you'll notice that the actual chips are tiny, I should have guessed they would not be very impressive since they are rated at only 2watts but they were cheap so I figured I'd try them out.

That is a huge help, thank you very much!

Very little information from the retailers indeed! The only thing I've seen any of them list is the range of volts you can run them with. I can't be certain from the pictures I've found online but they look to be DIP lights, can you say if that is what they appear to have used? LED Types Thanks for any info you can share on them.

The pinion needs shimming to mesh properly and you have to use a through pin to secure the drive cup to the pinion shaft but it's very simple to do. No mods. are needed to the diff. housing as FTX uses the same bearings as Axial and with just a little shimming everything drops right in. What I mean about a through pin is that the Axial pinion has a hole through its' shaft it instead of the flat surface FTX uses for a grub screw. It works just the same as how the FTX rear drive shaft attaches to the out drive from the gear box. I trashed my stock ring/pinion whenever my buggy landed on it's nose from higher than two feet in the air, the chassis flexes soo much that the front drive shaft gets pushed into the pinion which then drives it right into the ring gear and smashes the teeth on both. I've not worn out, or stripped a single stock ring/pinion set but I've smashed a few. I'm making a chassis brace to stop the pinion from smashing into the ring gear, when that's sorted out I'll run the new Axial gear set and report to you guys how everything works. The best thing about Axial gears (or the aftermarket gears for Axial vehicles) is the option for underdrive, or overdrive gear sets. I have the overdrive gears for the front of my Outlaw to help it climb hills but the option is there to tune your vehicles gearing by running over, or underdrive gears to get the gearing you want if you can't get the spur/pinion combo to suit your needs. I'll make a new thread with pictures of the Axial install since it applies to every FTX vehicle running the same differential as the Outlaw.

The only way to find out for sure is to order something and see if it fits, or is close enough that you can make it fit with a bit of work. I took a chance and ordered the Axial HD Overdrive ring and pinion gears and have them installed in my FTX diff. housing right now. I'll post a follow up after I run them a bit but everything meshes quite nicely and feels silky smooth when turning by hand.

No, I was talking about the A-arms on the front.

tomzac66, do you have a voltmeter? It would be nice to test one of the expensive name brand light bars to see what kind of amps. it pulls on the voltage you are using. Judging from the pics I've found of that light bar it looks like it is made with the DIP type of LED, can you confirm that for me?

I believe I will make my own light bar.

I hope this is not too much of a curve ball to throw into the discussion but...has anyone tried fitting the existing RPM Yeti arms to the Outlaw? The company that manufactures the Outlaw copied the Yeti to the degree that Axial ring and pinion gears fit the Outlaws' diff. case with just a little shimming. I've installed them but have not run the car since the install as I'm doing other work that has kept my car on the work bench. Just saying that it's worth looking into the existing RPM arms as they may fit right up. Maybe ask Yeti owners to take some measurements of their arms and compare them to FTX arms?

Nice video! What camera are you using?

What type of LED is that light bar using?