I'm putting together some stock style diffs for a LRM. Has anyone actually used silicone fliud in a diff like this?
I know that they normally use grease and they're not actually designed to hold fluid like 1/8th scale, but if you siliconed the case to the ring gear would they still leak?
yeah they would leak over time without a proper gasket/o-ring. It may work for awhile though.
we have an assortment of o rings at work, maybe one would work, or fel pro make rolls of gasket material that may work, if you came up or let me know when you could come up, I could get ya some to look at and see if they would work.
I recomend against that in a stock t-maxx diff. its not the ring gear and cup mating surface that it will leak from.. it will leak from the output shafts where they go through the cups real quick and get into the bearings and attract tons of dirt and dust which will initially create some serious driveline loss and later kill the bearings real quick.
Essentially there is no way to really tune that kind of diff? Thicker grease perhaps? Any ideas?
You've had a couple of seroius Maxx style trucks...what did you use?
in my stock diffs, white grease (TRX)
in my UE diffs, 3k f/ 1k r
same here.. on my various supermaxx truck setups if I had stock diffs it was just grease. Ue diffs I was running 10K silicone in both front and rear.