Gears....

[bobvic1217]

Should all the gear nuts be tight? 2 of them are tight, but the middle one is loose and turns around the shaft. When I tighten the middle one, the truck wont move....when I loosen it, it runs freely. any help?

 

[k.jensen]

the middle one should be lose enough for the gears to move arround the axle freely the 2 others should be tight

 

[RampageHopUps]

Just use blue loctite to keep the center nut on.

 

[bobvic1217]

thank you


I am sure glad this forum is here, I try to keep my earthquake 3.5 and XT running with this forum. when one is broke, I play with the other, until new parts comes in, (UPS man hates me)... however I can never get them both working at the same time! lol Thank you for your help... I wondered about that nut. Lost my breaks and linkage, trying to use a closet hanger for replacement, I think it'll work.

 

[ImminentFailure]

Hi-jacking the 'Gears' thread in this forum. I know the XB / XT are a similar platform, do they run the same stock gears? I found a gear table and lots of post about XB, was wondering if this applied to the XT as well? I hear 35/25/25/25 is good gear ratio.


Also do you grease these drive gears, and what's the fan favorite type if so? Or do you grease only the gears in the diff cases.

 

[RampageHopUps]

The gearing for XB is 29-31-25-25


XT and MT is 35-25-25-25


Tire size can also effect gearing, so there are some guys running 31-29 on their XT and MT wig Baja tires.

 

[rob64n]

Should all the gear nuts be tight? 2 of them are tight, but the middle one is loose and turns around the shaft. When I tighten the middle one, the truck wont move....when I loosen it, it runs freely. any help?

i cut down some spacers to fit between the bearings, i learned this from sprint77

 

[RampageHopUps]

Blue loctite and barely tight also works.