I bought mine today and started tearing it down just to get a good look at everything.
I gotta say, I really want a Jammin truggy now, 'cuz this little thing is so darn nice to work on, easy access diffs, u-joints everywhere and solidly built everywhere.
What surprised me the most was the fact that it uses the same size flywheel and clutch components as the full size 1/8th scale stuff so gearing it to the moon will be easier than I thought as this little OS.18TZ is a torque monster :thefinger
The only problems I had with it were: (1) there is no pilot nut shaft for users with a threaded crank, only a flywheel nut and a collet is provided, my OS.18 has a threaded crank shaft so I need to make another trip the LHS to pick up a Team Associated shaft. (2) Not a drop of oil in all 3 diffs, just a slight oily film, so I topped off the diffs with my blend of diff oils with some motor oil for added protection. (3)In the kit I also noticed I got 4 extra 2.2" Pro-line rims for extra tire options, but the rims don't slide onto the axles, the rims need to be drilled out another 1mm or so, not a big deal, but weird why OFNA would do that, why not just throw 2 pairs of stock CRT.5 rims in???? (4) the screws that hold the ring gears to the diff cases are Phillips heads, I hate those, a hundred or so little 2mm button and counter sunk screws and they put in 12 Phillips heads on the diffs??:yell:
Over all I have to say that the best part is that this little bugger isn't as hard to work on as a Mini-T or another mini nitro, it's big, but not too big, small but not too small. :thumbup:
I gotta say, I really want a Jammin truggy now, 'cuz this little thing is so darn nice to work on, easy access diffs, u-joints everywhere and solidly built everywhere.
What surprised me the most was the fact that it uses the same size flywheel and clutch components as the full size 1/8th scale stuff so gearing it to the moon will be easier than I thought as this little OS.18TZ is a torque monster :thefinger
The only problems I had with it were: (1) there is no pilot nut shaft for users with a threaded crank, only a flywheel nut and a collet is provided, my OS.18 has a threaded crank shaft so I need to make another trip the LHS to pick up a Team Associated shaft. (2) Not a drop of oil in all 3 diffs, just a slight oily film, so I topped off the diffs with my blend of diff oils with some motor oil for added protection. (3)In the kit I also noticed I got 4 extra 2.2" Pro-line rims for extra tire options, but the rims don't slide onto the axles, the rims need to be drilled out another 1mm or so, not a big deal, but weird why OFNA would do that, why not just throw 2 pairs of stock CRT.5 rims in???? (4) the screws that hold the ring gears to the diff cases are Phillips heads, I hate those, a hundred or so little 2mm button and counter sunk screws and they put in 12 Phillips heads on the diffs??:yell:
Over all I have to say that the best part is that this little bugger isn't as hard to work on as a Mini-T or another mini nitro, it's big, but not too big, small but not too small. :thumbup:
