First major breakage!

[Fnfancy]

Well, I finally broke my MT. I haven't disassembled it yet but it appears the split center diff mount, or the accompanied bearings, failed. Just a quick visual inspection showed the mount slightly melted which leads me to believe the bearing failed and locked up. It was after a fairly decent impact on the tail end, after remounting the body I tried to take off again and the motor just cogged and stuttered. I thought one of the leads came out but no, after disengaging the motor I couldn't spin the center diff. Now here's my question, I purchased the cnc diff mount from tekno. Is this a solid upgrade? Will it help prolong bearings? Also bent the crap out of my rear axles, to the point that the hit the arm. I plan on straightening them out as best I can but is the arrma axle mod the only way to upgrade them? I'll take some pictures later on and tear into her hopefully soon, got a couple busy days ahead of me. Thank you for any and all thoughts or comments

 

[Slogrits]

Well, I finally broke my MT. I haven't disassembled it yet but it appears the split center diff mount, or the accompanied bearings, failed. Just a quick visual inspection showed the mount slightly melted which leads me to believe the bearing failed and locked up. It was after a fairly decent impact on the tail end, after remounting the body I tried to take off again and the motor just cogged and stuttered. I thought one of the leads came out but no, after disengaging the motor I couldn't spin the center diff. Now here's my question, I purchased the cnc diff mount from tekno. Is this a solid upgrade? Will it help prolong bearings? Also bent the crap out of my rear axles, to the point that the hit the arm. I plan on straightening them out as best I can but is the arrma axle mod the only way to upgrade them? I'll take some pictures later on and tear into her hopefully soon, got a couple busy days ahead of me. Thank you for any and all thoughts or comments

I’m testing out the universals vs. CV joint. Universals are 4.21 mm vs. 3.8mm

 

[Fnfancy]

I’m testing out the universals vs. CV joint. Universals are 4.21 mm vs. 3.8mm

How long have you been running the unis?

 

[Slogrits]

How long have you been running the unis?

I’ve only taken it out twice since installing. I’m running uni’s in the front and CVs in the back.

 

[Slogrits]

https://www.teknoforums.com/threads/bent-axles.483/

 

[Fnfancy]

Thank you slogrits, your very helpful.
I finally got a chance to tear into the truck. All four axles are bent, but how you ask? Well it turns out I'm a bad MT owner. One of the screws that hold the spur backed out, hit the center diff mount which caused the axles to bend from momentum! I think the screw hole is stripped out so a new center diff cup is in order. Pictures of the Carnage...

 

[Slogrits]

Thank you slogrits, your very helpful.
I finally got a chance to tear into the truck. All four axles are bent, but how you ask? Well it turns out I'm a bad MT owner. One of the screws that hold the spur backed out, hit the center diff mount which caused the axles to bend from momentum! I think the screw hole is stripped out so a new center diff cup is in order. Pictures of the Carnage...

Whow! Those are seriously bent. Mine bent a quarter in from the wheels. My old man just had the same thing happen with the screws. It destroyed his diff mount.