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Just checking bearings at the moment

Well after a bit I fixed her. What i did was teared the truck apart and cleaned the gears checked the bearings which were good and since I had it changed the gear box with a new one I had, checked my Yeah Racing oil filled dampers cleaned and tightened those and put her back together and bamo the prolem solved.

Forgot to mention I cleaned all metal bits (ie) rear axles, bevel gear pins even used autosol to polish them enery metal part in the gear box was washed and poished.

So you didn’t find any obvious cause of the noise? Just dirty?

Ya , The gears were pretty gummed up. I bought the truck used and just did a light going over. But what I did like I mentioned was a complete tear down and clean and rebuild. I mean I clean all gearbox pieces to new like condition and rebuilt the gear box with a new Tamiya gear box housing. What I did notice however was while I was disassembling the old gear box the axle on the right side was wobbling as I spun the axles with out the motor weird , I have come to the conclusion that the previous owner ran this truck hard cause after the rebuild axles spin free quiet and free. The gear box seems tighter as well , what I mean is there is less slop in the gears. I was going over other posts and found that a light coating of grease (used Tamiya ceramic grease from the kits) and used a Q-tip to cover the areas that needed it. What I also noticed no abnormal gear wear or pieces of metal. Ya so that's it sorry for the long post hope this helps some else.

Sorry one more thing added new bearings.