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As you guys know I proudly own a heavily modified slash 2wd. And over time, I notice some problems with it.
1. My slash loves to strip out the hex that is built into the rim.
2. Has really bad wear patterns on the wheels, indicating that my camber is off.
For the first one, I have a hard time keeping wheels on the car. That’s because of the inner hex of the rim easily strips out:
New Rim:
Stripped Rim:
Now I think I know the reason. I have a slipper clutch eliminator and a diff locker. This puts a lot of stress on these rims, causing the hex to spin inside the rim. Eventually I did take it apart and it now doesn’t have a locker in it anymore. It still has a clutch eliminator still in it, and I have not seen signs of stripping since. Now I COULD fix this issue by putting a stock slipper clutch in it, but I absolutely hate those things. And with how I drive these, I’d have to replace the slipper clutch pads and rotor constantly, and I don’t want to do that. I have tried upgrading the 12mm hexes to metal, because the plastic hexes were starting to become circles because of how many times I stripped wheels, but no dice. So now my question is should I upgrade the hexes to a bigger size or is there is different shape of one that would help stop or make it less likely to strip?
For the second one I've had this problem for as long as I've had this car, and even have talked about it in previous posts that I've made. This being my stubborn camber and toe adjustments of my slash. So far I think I've re-adjusted my camber 5-6 times and it always ends up being wonky. At first I was just eyeballing it, but then I got the RPM camber adjustment tool and used that. I'm not doing anything wrong, I go through the normal steps to do it, but it just undoes my work. Here are some pictures:
The toe of the rear wheels:
The Camber of the Left Wheel:
The Camber of the Right Wheel:
So the toe is REALLY bad. I don’t know what that is about… The left has an exceptionally positive Camber, and the right is hard to notice, but it does have some positive camber. The camber links are stock and the hubs are RPM, and the lower control arms are extreme heavy duty. I do have new stock camber links. My question is will this fix my camber issues by putting the new stock links on, or do I upgrade them? Also how do I fix my toe? I think I know how to fix my toe, but I’d like some suggestions first.
1. My slash loves to strip out the hex that is built into the rim.
2. Has really bad wear patterns on the wheels, indicating that my camber is off.
For the first one, I have a hard time keeping wheels on the car. That’s because of the inner hex of the rim easily strips out:
New Rim:
Stripped Rim:
Now I think I know the reason. I have a slipper clutch eliminator and a diff locker. This puts a lot of stress on these rims, causing the hex to spin inside the rim. Eventually I did take it apart and it now doesn’t have a locker in it anymore. It still has a clutch eliminator still in it, and I have not seen signs of stripping since. Now I COULD fix this issue by putting a stock slipper clutch in it, but I absolutely hate those things. And with how I drive these, I’d have to replace the slipper clutch pads and rotor constantly, and I don’t want to do that. I have tried upgrading the 12mm hexes to metal, because the plastic hexes were starting to become circles because of how many times I stripped wheels, but no dice. So now my question is should I upgrade the hexes to a bigger size or is there is different shape of one that would help stop or make it less likely to strip?
For the second one I've had this problem for as long as I've had this car, and even have talked about it in previous posts that I've made. This being my stubborn camber and toe adjustments of my slash. So far I think I've re-adjusted my camber 5-6 times and it always ends up being wonky. At first I was just eyeballing it, but then I got the RPM camber adjustment tool and used that. I'm not doing anything wrong, I go through the normal steps to do it, but it just undoes my work. Here are some pictures:
The toe of the rear wheels:
The Camber of the Left Wheel:
The Camber of the Right Wheel:
So the toe is REALLY bad. I don’t know what that is about… The left has an exceptionally positive Camber, and the right is hard to notice, but it does have some positive camber. The camber links are stock and the hubs are RPM, and the lower control arms are extreme heavy duty. I do have new stock camber links. My question is will this fix my camber issues by putting the new stock links on, or do I upgrade them? Also how do I fix my toe? I think I know how to fix my toe, but I’d like some suggestions first.
