limited slip & ballooning question

[Badkitty]

. Ok so i opened my DIFF on my JATO. Empty, as i've heard alot are. I put 90w shock oil in it and the outside wheel is still ballooning alot while turning and accelerating.

Now i've heard of people putting 7K diff oil and working great, yet the traxxas manual says to use 30-60w SHOCK OIL. what do you guys use to prevent this?

 

[SVORay]

My Revo did the same thing in the front and was also out of oil. So I bought a three oil kit from Traxxas. They told me out here to do 50k rear and 30k front. I did something totaly different out back but the 30k up front fixed my balloning issue good. I would probaly say try that oil kit and use the 50k out back...I'm guessing that all you got but just incase Also check your spiders real good, my rear gears was toasted bad. This had one tire doing more than the other do to slippage. If you pop the top off the spiders and it looks like graphite grease...theres probaly something bad in there.

Here is a link to the oil I used

http://cgi.ebay.com/Traxxas-Differe...042540325QQcategoryZ44028QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[dannyd]

to stop balloning you have to tape the inside of the tire. the tape will keep the tires from balooning. i wouldnt use shock oil. its called shock oil for a reason. this is my opinion though.

 

[Badkitty]

ya i agree..but the problem is the TRAXXAS MANUAL SPECIFICALLY says SHOCK OIL....so its somewhat confusing. but i'll try some 50K

 

[4u2nv]

^ It has to be a banded tape. Like Duct tape, boxing tape (with the woven thread in it) etc. Makes it work like a banded tire.

 

[Badkitty]

tape will stop ballooning...what I'm actually talking about is in an accelerated turn the OUTSIDE tire spins WAY FASTER....now with thicker oil this wont happen as bad, as power is distributed equally....i just used too light of weight.

 

[dannyd]

^ oh sorry i thought you were talking about something else.

 

[Badkitty]

oops i meant the INSIDE tire.

 

[SVORay]

Ya, from what I hear it's always the right side tire(s) that ballon once you run dry on diff oil. I also had some weird deal like it was unloading on the fronts. I pulled the front a part and zero oil. So I used some 30k like suggested and things was great after wards. That 50k should help out a ton in the rear...I'm guessing the thinker oil will help lock it up like a much tighter ball diff adjustment or spool rear end. Also stop the balloning. Now if they ballong after the oil, I'm guessing tape should be used but don't quote me on that since I haven't crossed that bridge


Best of let and let us know if it worked
Ray