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Originally Posted by West Ridge Racing
A kyosho fs diff can be modified to fit in a Durango.
I hate balldiffs. Not in a performance like way but for the maintenance part.
People who say they run their diffs for months and still have a silky smooth diff are not telling the truth. Strictly impossible. they ware out rather quickly.
On flat dirt tracks with normal grip and normal jumps they lasts much longer and even indoors on high grip track because they often are flat and the jumps are evenly flat all over the surface.
What kills a ball diff the quickest are bumpy high grip track like astro tracks.
Our astro track does not have one meter of flat surface and the car is in the the air more or less all the time and it eats the diffs up after only one run.
Have build and rebuild diffs a thousand times and in different ways and with different diff grease and balls and what not. Still the same result.
I have discovered what I think is a gritty diff, others find perfectly good so my standards are maybe a bit high. I must be damaged after all the Tc I have been doing. Really really important in tc that the diff is right on the money.
More geardiffs for the masses and the technology to build them lighter and with less rotating mass exists. I do not race buggy any more cus of that fact and the Durango is not a option for me. Do not think the durango is the way it is because of the geardiffs only.
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take a look at the highlighted bits above from you statement
thats why most people hate ball diffs, and thats exactly why most people don't understand them. are they really supposed to be silky smooth, well i say no there supposed to be a kinda of limited slip diff, so no there not supposed to be silky smooth there supposed to be tight and feel a little notchy, if there silky smooth they will diff out in the corner loosing drive,which is why people think oil filled geared diff are better because they don't diff out so easily, but feel one of them there far from silky smooth,build it right and yes they last months, o buy the way shy we run on astro 98% of the time are cougar diff is tight and slightly notchy and 3 months old still going strong,