How often do you rebuild your cars?

[DavidB1126]

Was looking around. I saw that COW RC makes a little air compressor. And recently released a turbo version of it. But I don't think it is worth it tho. Well, its called jet blasters or shop vacs. https://cowrc.com/jet-blasters/
COW RC Jet Blaster Tubro: https://cowrc.com/jet-blaster-turbo-new-variable-speed-control-/

 

[RustyUs]

I run my RCs in/on very dusty environment. The dust/dirt will literally get thrown onto bearings, CV joints, and shocks when big knobby tires are churning things up in a corner.

I do scheduled maintenance tear downs/rebuilds every 12 runs... bearing cleaning/relube & shock cleaing/rebuilds, and check for worn parts,. It used to be every 24 runs, but I would get blown bearings more often with the longer timeframe. I narrowed down the maintenance needed, little by little, to my now 12 full (12~15 minute) runs to save on bearing/parts costs... driving an RC with blown bearings does weird things to RCs .

Old spread sheet that I made, and printed out to have in garage...

Every 24 runs I well normally change out diff fluids & rebuild/refurbish ball diffs.

Full blown complete tear downs/rebuilds/beautification of my RCs only happen... never ... well, unless I get stupid with running stuff in muck, or I'm getting ready to sell them .

 

[F.R.S. Ninja_007]

We need to rebuild my brother’s Senton; it’s like three years old without a good deep clean or annual maintenance session.