Today I would like to share the experience of
Driving System Maintenance for VBC Wildfire D06 RC Touring Car.
First of all, release the screws shown on
below to take your drive shafts out.
Now, you have successfully taken them out. Investigate the shaft in detailed. Verify if it is bend or damage. Normally you won’t get this thing happen unless you’d just experienced very serious accident on Racing.
Now let’s start to clean the Double Joint (DCV) drive shafts. We use some cotton sticks to wipe out dust and grease
residual. Pay more attention to clean the slot of pins.
Remember we need to spin the drive shafts
while we clean. Note that some points may got black color faked out, those points
request to take extra care to lubricate later. Also we need to make sure there is no
glitch sound when we spin.
You can spray some WD40 to make your
cleaning task easier but I would not do this cause WD40 can also prevent new
grease apply on the drive shaft. Well, yes, you can re-grease with air-dryer, I
admit.
While in the middle of cleaning, we have to
give a glimpse on front Spool Drive Cup. Investigate if it is wear out or
broken. Replace them if needed.
Now we move forward, I bet you 100% need to
clean the bearings. Remember, bearings are the parts that you always need to
keep an eye on.
From the pictures we can see, we definitely
need to take them out to clean.
Now we insert Hex driver into the gap
between two bearings, then push out the outside one.
If you have this bearing tool, it can help you push out another one easily. If you don’t, a pencil can help.
Look at how dirty they are.
To clean the bearings, you can use WD40 and
cleaning bottle from YR to spray and shake out dirt. Re-lubricate afterward. We
won’t talk too much about it here, I may publish a new post about how to clean
and re-lubricate RC car bearing in future.
Now we finish the cleaning jobs for front
drive shafts. I know you are more than likely to clean rear drive shafts as
well, don't you?
After took out the rear drive shafts. You may
notice that the Shaft End Shoes are wear-out badly. We have to replace them. Unscrew
the top set-screw, push out the pin then release the wear-out Shaft End Shoe. Bear
in mind that you don’t have to tear it out and push a new one in with force. It
will damage your plastic parts.
After carefully clean the rear drive shaft joint. We know that we have finished the whole cleaning job.
Now let’s put grease paste back on drive
shafts. Use your hex drive to dip a bit of grease and apply it on the pin slot
first. Ensure the slot point has fully greased, and then we apply grease on
other places.
If you have your factory grease run-out just like me. You have to go buy some. My recommendation is: you don’t have to go to your LHS to buy those expensive one just with a little amount in bottle. Go find some for your real car, which can also do a brilliant job. Something like below will be enough for your whole RC live.
Grease it, spin it to make sure all moving
parts are lubricated.
Use tissue or towels to wipe out the
bleeding grease, then you finish.
