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Some updates on the 501x WCE gold shafts:

Originally, I thought the gold nitride was flaking off because I assembled the shafts incorrectly--I reassembled them correctly and STILL the gold is coming off the rear shocks mostly, fronts seem to be ok.

The rears look faded--fading from gold to silver. It only takes 1 or 2 track days to get noticable fading on the shafts. You can verify this is happening because the oil will look "gray/black"--not gray from dirt getting in the oil but gray from the nitride rubbing off and showing up black in oil.

I do service my o-rings very frequently on all the cars I own, but the 501 wouldn't need servicing as much if the nitride coating was up to the spec of Associated or Losi.

I suppose its time to switch to Yokomo shafts--I know the WCE shafts are a different length than the standard 501x shafts--I would like to keep that length (or close to it and make up the difference with spacers)--how long are the preferred Yokomo shafts and are they just the standard ones from the BXF 2007?