Some pics of "water proofing" my servos.

[stealth2669]

This is for those of you that don't want to spend extra money on water proof servos and haven't seen this. Its extremely cost effective and makes them 90% water proof. I used PlastiDip, got it from the hand tools isle at menards they use it to coat the handles on tools, and it cost about $7. You'll see it looks extremely thick initially but after it dries its extremely thin and contours to all the seams and crevases. *Sorry for the not so great quality pics*

This is after a coating them you can see how thick it looks which scared me at first but it gets extremely thin as you'll see.

You can see how much it contours to all the nooks and crannies, you can still tell they are tiny phillips head screws. This is 2 coats too.

Where the servo shaft comes through is the only spot you can't really seal w/o running into potential issues. When I know i'm going out into real wet conditions i'll put dielectric grease around the shaft.

 

[Metalhead Matt]

Use an o-ring under your horns with a dab of blue, pliable rtv on the screw. 90% water proof to about 95%! Those servos look pretty cool dipped.

 

[olds97_lss]

I liked how the yellow made things "pop":

 

[stealth2669]

I liked how the yellow made things "pop"

No yellow at my store! just black and red! Looks awesome! Did you do anything around the servo shaft?

 

[olds97_lss]

O-ring with associated green slime to lube it. I cut the plasti-dip away from the servo horn so the o-ring would seal against the bottom of the horn and top of the servo case. I had to grind down the base of the horn so it wasn't smashing the o-ring all out of shape.

Hope you don't mind some more photo's in here:

And an over exposed shot to see the o-ring better:

 

[stealth2669]

Nice! Gunna have to do that.

 

[CosmosGoat]

I did mine to get ready for winter.

 

[stealth2669]

I did mine to get ready for winter.

 exactly why i did mine!

 

[CosmosGoat]

Now all i need to do is get some skis for the front.

 

[olds97_lss]

Now all i need to do is get some skis for the front.

Here you go:
http://www.fullforcerc.com/ski-kits.htm

 

[stealth2669]

Here you go:
http://www.fullforcerc.com/ski-kits.htm

Those are sweet but do you really think they'd work better then tires that spin? I have yet to run mine in snow so i'm kind of ignorant(for lack of a better term) It says you need to pull the front drive shaft to convert to 2wd but I imagine to keep the brake you can just remove axle shafts?

 

[NitroRC4Life]

Those are sweet but do you really think they'd work better then tires that spin? I have yet to run mine in snow so i'm kind of ignorant(for lack of a better term) It says you need to pull the front drive shaft to convert to 2wd but I imagine to keep the brake you can just remove axle shafts?

your absolutely right! removing the center driveshaft to the front diff will make it 2wd because then nothing is turning the front diff hence only power will be the rwd! so your right about that but i think if you got paddle tires all around it could probably do really good and kick up a lot of snow at the same time! lol but how good would paddles be people?? i wanna know

 

[olds97_lss]

Well, in deep snow, neither tires or ski's work all that well as soon as you loose forward momentum.

You can take a look at the vids here to see how well it gets around:
http://www.beatyourtruck.com/prodreview-FFRC-SKIS.html

I run in the winter, but have never tried ski's. I use big floaty tires as I find they work best. Like the ones from the aftershock.

 

[stealth2669]

your absolutely right! removing the center driveshaft to the front diff will make it 2wd because then nothing is turning the front diff hence only power will be the rwd!

I understand that all i'm saying is if you remove the front shaft what holds the brake disc to the transmission? The front shaft has 2 pins that engauge with the disc to keep it from spinning on the trans.... do you need to disassemble the shaft and use only the yoke on the shaft? I have yet to take the front axles out so I don't know how thats assembled.

 

[olds97_lss]

Yeah, you need the yoke to hold the brake hex. Probably easier to just buy a yoke than take one apart and risk busting the ears off.