Safe to block the center diff?

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If I do this, it will probably be permanent... anyway, I'd expect there to be more load on the gears during acceleration once I eliminate the center diff. Will that extra load be negligible, or would I actually risk stripping any gears?

I bash my RCs and the center diff regularly holds me back from driving in a way that would be useless to a racer. I'm planning to put this car through quite some offroad during the holiday

 

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I kinda' monstertruckified this truggy because in the end, a .28 is a .28, so it should pull LOL. I gave it a 15t clutchbell after last "incident"

the reason why I don't want to simply take the HPI savage is that this platform is very minimalistic and easy to clean. Important when I'm on vacation

 

[xjtorc]

Put some 1 million CST fluid in there. It'll be mostly locked while maintaining a little give if need be.

 

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...once I eliminate the center diff. Will that extra load be negligible, or would I actually risk stripping any gears?

I kinda' monstertruckified this truggy because in the end, a .28 is a .28, so it should pull LOL. I gave it a 15t clutchbell after last "incident"

I've never seen a clutch-bell fail like that.
It's also unusual to see a truggy get monsterfied.
I try and make my Savages and Revos as close to truggies as I can get them.

What was the tooth number on the bell that suffered the "incident"?
How many teeth are on the spur gear?
Is your new clutch-bell (+ the old one) hardened?

If by "blocking" you mean turning it into a solid arrangement (posi-traction?) - why not try it?
You can get Slipper Clutch Eliminator Spur Gear set-ups for the Savage, and these are marketed to 4.6 owners.
Some of these provide pretty tall gear ratios.
The Savage with MT tires is one heavy truck too (12 pounds is not uncommon).

I bash my RCs and the center diff regularly holds me back from driving in a way that would be useless to a racer. I'm planning to put this car through quite some offroad during the holiday

How does the center diff hold you back?
What breaks?
Are they not robust enough / do you strip the diffs internal bevel gears?
Do you do big air / heavy landings?

 

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I've never seen a clutch-bell fail like that.
It's also unusual to see a truggy get monsterfied.
I try and make my Savages and Revos as close to truggies as I can get them.

That'd only make it only harder for me to clean lol. I never touched the clutch or clutchbell, I just got this buggy for a steal and it ran

What was the tooth number on the bell that suffered the "incident"?
How many teeth are on the spur gear?
Is your new clutch-bell (+ the old one) hardened?

The clutchbell that it came with was also 15T. For the short while that it ran, this felt like a perfect gear ratio honestly. On my other buggy I have an 18T clutchbell and it works very good as well. I have never heard of a hardened clutchbell..?

If by "blocking" you mean turning it into a solid arrangement (posi-traction?) - why not try it?
You can get Slipper Clutch Eliminator Spur Gear set-ups for the Savage, and these are marketed to 4.6 owners.
Some of these provide pretty tall gear ratios.
The Savage with MT tires is one heavy truck too (12 pounds is not uncommon).

Yeah, but.. I think I'll reconsider and that I won't go for the extreme option after all so I'll probably mix vaseline with high very dense oil

How does the center diff hold you back?
What breaks?
Are they not robust enough / do you strip the diffs internal bevel gears?
Do you do big air / heavy landings?

I'm glad nothing has broken yet, but it slightly annoys me that every time I hit the throttle, the engine revs and the front tires wear and balloon like crazy. I don't like the fact that literally all power can come down to only one wheel. I can't drift. I never jump large RCs, I'll surely end up doing that one day but for now that still feels like too much LOL

 

[Steamdonkey]

If I do this, it will probably be permanent... anyway, I'd expect there to be more load on the gears during acceleration once I eliminate the center diff. Will that extra load be negligible, or would I actually risk stripping any gears?View attachment 264940
I bash my RCs and the center diff regularly holds me back from driving in a way that would be useless to a racer. I'm planning to put this car through quite some offroad during the holiday

Several years ago I put 500k CST in the center diff of my RC8 that I converted to electric and haven't stripped or worn out any gears so far. I'm not sure how much better it is for drifting, but it's a wheelie-fest on 6S.