Fireblade USA

[Tramp]

I recently bought a Schumacher fireblade USA from a popular internet auction site, I wasn't looking for a fireblade, but I saw it and wanted it so I bought it! And this is what it looks like:



I bought the year appropriate magazine article, and it looked like it was just bought as a basher, the body wasn't too bad considering and everything looked mechanically sound, I took it to my local track and had a drive with it, it seemed ok but the electronics in it were a little sedate for my taste, and a broken plastic bodied shock ended the run



I removed the electrics



And fitted a hobbywing ezrun brushless motor and esc, and replaced all the shocks for later cougar SV items as they are alloy bodied and more robust,







It's better, but it really needed a slipper, I did some digging for part numbers & that's what led me to this site,

Anyway I found a slipper kit on eBay but it was a pricey £55, which is around 2/3 the value of the car! So instead I found this



A Visco drive unit! This really appealed to me as its a bit quirky and seems like a good idea, it also came with the lay shaft to fit my fireblade,
It looks like it needs a rebuild as the o rings have hardened but other than that im sure it will work!
I found some instructions on Google, but the scan was a really poor copy and I couldn't make out the sizings of the o rings I needed does anyone have these instructions laying around that could copy them for me?

Thanks
Luke

[Incredible_Serious]

Welcome to the forum, and nice buggy! We have this excellent feature here on the forum called "Search".... typing "Visco" into the search function, and scrolling down to the 8th result leads you here: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=33338

Alex

[Tramp]

Thanks Alex, I'd searched with Google and assumed it would have come up - Google listed a different page, the one with the poor scans on, this one is exactly what I was looking for, it has all the o ring sizes on so I can buy them as I need to, thank you,

luke

[Tramp]

Not overly exciting but I rebuilt the viscus drive and fitted it,

It seems to go ok, so I should be ok to take it to the track again,