rampage x have wheel bearing problems

[jeeper049687]

my bearings went bad and i want to upgrade to mostly likely the 7075's holders, when funds are available in the front half of the month. but anyway went to the hobby store stock XT bearings were 1.59 each, went across the street to Bearings and drives. 58 cents each. should have gone there first. was wondering could someone tell me what size the bearings are in the MT, o and whats up with the versions? is this redcat making revisions to the product. i haven't seen any local XT's, or XB's with the 10mm wheel nuts yet just all the 6mm. o and both my servo's look different from the one's with 6mm axles. if they upgraded the axles, i wish the upgraded the hub bearings.

 

[jeeper049687]

ps. yea love the muffler idea. totaly melted the one rear corner of my xt body with it at stock hight, decided on heat shield and im going to run stacks up through the bed.

 

[Guest]

Redcat upgraded to the 10mm axle threads a while back. (last year) There are a lot of dealers, and I am sure some still have older inventory. If anyone is in the market for a X-series vehicle, I would recommend asking to make sure you are getting the latest version. Go back a few years and there were different MT versions for sale.

 

[Deluge]

my bearings went bad and i want to upgrade to mostly likely the 7075's holders, when funds are available in the front half of the month. but anyway went to the hobby store stock XT bearings were 1.59 each, went across the street to Bearings and drives. 58 cents each. should have gone there first. was wondering could someone tell me what size the bearings are in the MT, o and whats up with the versions? is this redcat making revisions to the product. i haven't seen any local XT's, or XB's with the 10mm wheel nuts yet just all the 6mm. o and both my servo's look different from the one's with 6mm axles. if they upgraded the axles, i wish the upgraded the hub bearings.

The MT has been through a few revisions. So has the X Series. The MT has bigger bearings, for example, the hub bearings are 12x24x6. They really should revise the hub design, but I guess they don't have to now, since 7075RC picked up the slack.

 

[Deluge]

ps. yea love the muffler idea. totaly melted the one rear corner of my xt body with it at stock hight, decided on heat shield and im going to run stacks up through the bed.

If you put aluminum tape on the inside of the body, it'll help prevent melting.

 

[Ryneito]

My rear bearings went out on me after a half a gallon of fuel and that's just street bashing. No jumping. Already received my 7075 hubs, just waiting for the bearings to show up. Deff a flaw in design by Redcat on those little bearings on a big car...This forum deff. helped me in identifying problems before or made me aware of what's to come...

 

[Guest]

They have to be done. I replace mine before I even break it in. I like having a reason to order 7075RC goodies

 

[Deluge]

Yeah, the bearings are a fail.

 

[jeeper049687]

would have been easy if there was such as thing as a 10X24X6 bearing. just slap those mt hubs on the xt and not worry about anything else. yep going to order the 7075 hubs.

 

[BertR]

In March i had wheel bearing failure so I ordered bearings from Large scale and 7075 wheel adapters and I am still running the same set of bearings thanks to Ol'Fart and his magic adapters

 

[Deluge]

Yep, 7075RC is good stuff!

 

[Guest]

Much of the bearing failure has to do with over tightening the wheel nuts. It pulls the cup into the bearings adding to much latteral pressure. With wheel adapters that won't happen. The nut only pulls on the adapter.

 

[Deluge]

They're still a fail. I don't have that issue with the MT. Just sayin'.

 

[rchobby89]

happend to me on the 2nd take on my xsc

 

[Guest]

That's why I do it before I run them.