Team Durango: Gear Diff Oil

[Stu Dixon]

Help needed on what oil to run (indoors @ bury) in a Dex210 gear diff ?
product code would help too

[Si Coe]

Most of our 210 runners still use the ball diff, but I run 3000wt in my 210. Not for any real tuning reason - its what I had from my old nitro but it seems to work well enough.

[mattr]

If It helps, most of ours are using the gear diff. (Indoor, high grip carpet).
Usually around the range of 2-5000wt. I think a couple have experimented with up to the 7-10000 sort of level, one guy is running moly grease, with quite some success.

[Gavin Collingwood]

The problem with geared diffs in general in any car is if it rains they're not very good at all. They're only Any good on
The dry. Ball diffs are a better all rounder

[Si Coe]

Except the 210's ball diff is the stupidest design ever and fails with boring regularity - just as Chris about his!
The gear diff isn't technically as good, but at least it actually works.....

[Gavin Collingwood]

Yep totally agree si, you need a degree in engineering to get that diff to work... Stupid design. Don't know why companies persist with the circlip/spring washer designed diffs I.e Durango, schumacher. The best diffs are the same screw spring and washer design that have been used for years I.e A.E, losi, kyosho ect... They're proven and are reliable, why change the design when the latter team have all those years of success with it?
And that's why I don't like those two cars especially.

[johnnygibbon]

What like my ball diff in my 210 that I rebuilt with ceramic diff and thrust balls about a year ago , clean every six months , and still works like a dream

Admittedly it is a bit fiddley fitting em
But otherwise no problems
Each to his own really at our level of racing
I do want a gear diff but its not essential