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Hi Dan and welcome aboard. I've pretty much been hooked on RC since my Dad and I started tinkering with planes back in the early '70's. I moved to buggies in the '80's, took a 20 year hiatus ('94 - '14) but I'm back again and, hopefully, to stay this time. Anyway, glad to have you here and hope you'...

Greetings Dan! Welcome to the family. My story is similar, drooling over RC10's as a "poor kid", finally getting into it as an old man.

I know this doesn't help much but BITD there was a two bearing upgrade kit that replaced the one big bearing with an insert that accepted two standard bearings and I think then used kyosho axles , good luck finding a set of those though , I think your best bet is a spacer of some kind . It's worth m...

Get a longer axle (hpi). Cut the cup off. Grind a flat at the end. Slide an outdrive cup over the axle and lock it with the setscrew.

These are from an academy str-4.
Don't bring your wheel too close though, or it will rubb against the screws that hold the bearing.