Tamiya TB-02 Racing Forum - Page 12

seakaycarthik · #**276** 02-15-2004, 07:04 PM

i took it out of the cover, its dry... dunno what is wrong....

minijosh · #**277** 02-23-2004, 05:27 PM

Something is wrong with my car now. I went from the 20 tooth pinion to the 21. Not a big jump, just wanted a little more top end. Got a new charger, Eagle racing 16X5 v. 2 so Nicads and Nimh's will love me. My batteries would go like stink for the first 2 laps, I'd pass like 3 to 4 people then dumped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never had this problem before with the cells. I've used them in my ta04 and hpi sprint and nothing at all ever happened. I'm doing a full discharge and will let them cool down over night and put about %60 back in them. Plus the motor was so hot, it melted the solder from the positive esc. What did I do? I'm running the middle spur 58t with the 21 pinion and my ratio will only be 7.18 and it is in the right hole. The alloy motor mount, front and rear sway bars, and the under ssg bits are in the mail so those are gonna help me out some. Well at least the motor mount will. My wire came off at the last race. I pulled out the first 2 races with 4 laps and I let my car run the entire 5 minutes for the last. When I first got car, I was running the 55t spur with the 25 pinion which is only 5.72. That was a hot motor and very fast but slow at the start. I hope I haven't hurt my esc or motor but I might have. Batteries are gonna hate me. HELP ME GUYS!!!!!!!

TRF Drive Hard · #**278** 02-23-2004, 11:04 PM

What kinda motor were you runnin?

minijosh · #**279** 02-24-2004, 12:33 AM

19 turn chamelion 2 pro. Just skimmed head and put new brushs on too.

TRF Drive Hard · #**280** 02-24-2004, 12:39 AM

You may wanna try to gear back down and see what happens... or try the 55/22 combo... spool up might be higher but better...

minijosh · #**281** 02-24-2004, 12:54 AM

Boy was my motor hot even with the tb02 heat sink on top. It's like it didn't even work. Do you wanna make a bet that I killed my brushes? Do you think it could have been the esc?

TRF Drive Hard · #**282** 02-24-2004, 12:56 AM

Were you brushes silver?

minijosh · #**283** 02-24-2004, 01:03 AM

I haven't take out the motor yet. It's a pain in the butt to take out the tb02 motor. BLAH design.

TRF Drive Hard · #**284** 02-24-2004, 01:06 AM

Didnt you say you put new brushes? were they silver?

minijosh · #**285** 02-24-2004, 01:10 AM

Yes they were silver. I'm not sure on what rating the brushes were but they were trinity. My friend uses the same ones too and his motor was flying.

TRF Drive Hard · #**286** 02-24-2004, 01:13 AM

Ya silver is hard on the comm... do you have the same spring tension on the motor as your friend? they might be to heavy... try medium on the positive and light on the negative...

minijosh · #**287** 02-24-2004, 01:15 AM

so that 1 tooth increase on the pinion would have nothing to do with it in over gearing? what should I run a stock motor at then?

TRF Drive Hard · #**288** 02-24-2004, 01:17 AM

Ya try a stock motor with the same gearing you used... but im pretty sure it was your new brushes...

minijosh · #**289** 02-24-2004, 03:41 PM

well i took out the brushes and they barely had any blue on them. I though they were gonna be toast!!! I dropped down 2 pinions to a 19 now. I hope this helps. Plus I read my instructions for my charger.

TRF Drive Hard · #**290** 02-25-2004, 03:42 AM

Well mine is set up with a 55/22 and soon i will add the Epic Binary 2 Pro Stock motor...

minijosh · #**291** 02-26-2004, 12:25 AM

was that the 19 turn binary or the 27?

TRF Drive Hard · #**292** 02-26-2004, 03:15 AM

27

minijosh · #**293** 02-26-2004, 11:49 AM

so could i use the 55t spur with the 21 tooth pinion? how would that turn out?

TRF Drive Hard · #**294** 02-26-2004, 08:20 PM

22 is the lowest on the chart...

minijosh · #**295** 02-27-2004, 12:00 AM

with that spur it is. 3 spurs and 14 pinions. at least we aren't stuck like a tl01 with 3 pinions.

fabolousRC · #**296** 02-28-2004, 05:29 AM

3 pinions and 2 spurs plus not too many motor choices. Put a hot motor the drivetrain will melt and if we put a calmer motor, the car runs like a tortoise. Yep..that's TL01 alright...

I just can't wait to get my hands on TB02

or maybe till they come up with new motor mount? I hate a prepositioned motor mount. I miss my 25/61 setup on my TB01

seakaycarthik · #**297** 02-29-2004, 04:57 AM

i aht the alum motor mount as well, i like to use custom settings, and they are never exact with those... does anyone know the highest i can gear a sport tuned on my 02... i need it for tcs, the thing is the ta04's have these huge gears, and tb01 uses small ones, so they rip me on straights......

Tamiya4ever · #**298** 02-29-2004, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by TRF Drive Hard
My list of mods:

-Red Aluminum prop shaft
-Red Aluminum Upper mount F/R
-Red Aluminum heatsink
-Red Aluminum Caster blocks
-Hardened Suspension arms F/R
-Hardened 2 Degree rear hubs
-Hardened Front knuckles
-Carbon Shock towers F/R
-SSG Center brace
-Stablizer Set F/R (Red)
-Aluminum Steering
-Aluminum motor mount
-Low Friction Shocks w/Red caps, Red aluminum retainers, and fluorine shafts

Soon to add:

-Universals F/R
-Front One-way (Red)
-Reinforced diffdrive for the rear
-Red Aluminum turnbuckles

I hope thats it...

Hey TRF, were would you get these at? I checked Tower, they have a few, but not all of them. Thanks.

TRF Drive Hard · #**299** 02-29-2004, 02:06 PM

Well most of the red stuff you need from the surikarn... some from ebay and some from tower

jiggen5354 · #**300** 02-29-2004, 07:00 PM

http://www.rc-square.com/parts0023.htm

TRF

there are even more red parts here on this page. looking at the gearboxe my self

try not to soil your self.