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Originally Posted by fastinfastout
so I have just built a db01r, and to my surprise the car needed quite a few shims all over the place as it was very sloppy on arms, hubs, steering etc.
in particular the rear end, where I shimmed the axles and the rear hubs. But after shimming them as tight as I could without binding, I still noticed there was still some play.
So pulled it all apart, and noticed that the bore of the hole for the rear hubs are abit larger than the hinge pin itself, so I am getting side to side play, which cannot be shimmed up. Also, noticed the bearings are very easy to insert into the front and rear hubs, which also creates more unnecessary slop!
Question, has anyone gone to aluminum hubs, made by 3racing or yeah racing, or genuine tamiya hubs that are better than the standard hubs?
I have not even used this car yet, and its already getting on my nerve. But I suppose coming from a durango, anything built after that will be 2nd class quality.
Are all tamiya's like this? I was planning on getting the new 2wd when it comes out soon, but now even having 2nd thoughts.
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Dont get all bent out of shape dude. This is a lower end kit that has some flaws but when fully upgraded it will destroy most buggies and leave them in its wake. Believe me on that. I never saw any slop with the rear hubs, and once you add the blue shim plus the pin for the wheel, the bearings wont fall out of the hub. If youre going to use aluminum hubs, which I do recommend, I would go with genuine tamiya parts. They sit lower than the other brand stuff and the adjusters wont rub on the rear rims. The 3racing or GPM rears are tall and Ive noticed that they come dangerously close to the adjusters and if you leave it the rear rims will grind down the adjusters and your wheel will just pop off at some point. So what ever you do buy the tamiya brand hubs.
3racing stuff is good, but I only use the diffs from them and nothing else. And remember we are talking about a pretty cheap kit here. Its like 3-4X cheaper than a durango so to compare the two in terms of quality is ridiculous. You get what you pay for. So if you want to get everything out of DB01 you're gonna have to drop some coin on it to spec it up.