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Nice body!
I ended up drilling holes in the bottoms of the caster blocks, and tapping them for screws. Now I put screws in those holes to pin the caster blocks to the hinge pins. It got rid of the slop from the aluminum wearing.

Probably a good choice to shelf it, though with some work a short arm car can be a fun runner. Getting an old 6 gear with original parts to run well is a lot of work. De-burring the top drives and outdrives is basically mandatory. Did you do that in the 80s? The alternative is getting all re-re tran...

I seem to remember that the Pb10 was supposed to be a carpet racer. Maybe this one will work out better.
Nice project, good luck.
Is anything new with that Team Car I traded you?

Nice. How does it handle?
I was going to ask why you had a nimh, but that's one of the curved-side lipos isn't it?

It did make heavy metal pretty fun to watch.

For some reason I thought carbide diff balls were black, and assumed that the silver ones were steel. I just looked at some pictures and saw that they're silver.
Sorry.
The diff balls in my 6 gear are black. Thinking back on it those might be ceramic.

I'm bumping this old thread because I just rebuild the diffs in both of my Rc10s and I accidentally used 6591 in both of them (instead of 6636 in the 6 gear.) My 6 gear diff has 1/8 carbide balls in it vs. the stock, and the PB-10 had steel 3/32 balls (Scr8p, I presume that's what you put in when yo...

knucklebuster wrote:Funny, editing the subject from DEMOTED to PROMOTED must have jinxed this rig.

I'm sorry.
It looks good though!

I put it back together on Friday. I put 32.5 wt shock fluid in the front, 30 wt in the rear, and I put the silver springs back on the front. The diff had felt less than stellar when I first put the car back together, but then I turned the car on, held one wheel still, and gave it some throttle (as o...

The Solar D771 is a great servo for the price. It's fast, strong, and reliable. I've used them in 3 different cars and I have a Solar D770 low profile servo in the Goldpan.

Super late update, I sold this truck in September at the Vonats. I sold it as a roller, no electronics, body or tires, but otherwise complete. I made some laps with it on the track first and it did pretty well. I have a video somewhere. I can't remember the name of the guy I sold it to. He had a bun...

I took apart the Pb10's Stealth to rebuild the diff.

What I've found with six gears is you need to build them really well with de-burred gears, either steel or strong plastic idlers, fresh bearings, new e clips, and plenty of grease on the gears (mainly if you have steel idlers). If they're not built well they self destruct constantly. Once you get it...

Happy birthday! I'm not sure about Theytookmythumb's picture.

I'm currently dusting this buggy off after it sat the whole winter. It probably needs a transmission/ diff rebuild as I haven't opened it up yet and the diff is starting to get a little gritty. I'm also going to do some work on suspension setup. I've been reading the Rc10 CE setup and race discussio...