u/Educational_Lock7816

Share your horror stories. Here’s mine brought a cheap traxxas off eBay that had stripped the spur gear. To me it looked like the pinion was on to far and wasn’t meshed properly. But alas £60 bargain. New pinion and spur, trialed slow with a high pitch sound and burning smell. Take the slipper off to find the lugs for slipper disc are ground off the pads are black from heat, the in put shaft was missing it’s roll pin so the previous owner had peened the slipper on, took out the “diff gears” to find the bearing on input shaft is missing its sill in is bone dry smells of burning and finally clearly the previous owner had, had an issue having tried to put a washer between the casing and the input shaft and ground the casing.