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This is a knowledge for those of you that have an older clutch plates that are sick of the friction pegs and want to upgrade to the slipper clutch used on the new XL-5 and VXL series of Traxxas Rustlers.

The installation is very easy and straight-forward. Begin by pulling your transmission out. It is easiest to remove the screws from the rear shock tower, then remove the screws for the rear A Arms and most of the back end should come right off. Then remove the 6 screws on the bottom and the transmission pops out. Pull all the screws out of the transmission and one of the output yokes and it should pull into 2 halves easily. If you have the plastic idler gear, this is the perfect time to replace it with either a Traxxas aluminum one or a hardened steel one available from places like RC-Monster.com. Remove the washer from the top of the top gear shaft and set it aside, then remove the shaft making sure to keep track of the washers because they're going right back in. Put the top gear on the top gear shaft and grease the gear (I used automotive wheel bearing grease, it works well but white lithium grease and many others will work as well). Make sure that as you put the new shaft in you replace all the washers that were taken out. The top gear shaft should fit in like a glove, if there is significant resistance there is something wrong. Re-assemble the transmission and rear end in the reverse order that you took it apart. Now you can start with the easy stuff.

Make sure your gear mesh is proper, I eye-balled mine, but if you can't get it right by eye, use the paper trick (where you insert a piece of paper between the two gears and press the motor up against the paper, squeezing the paper. Then tighten the motor screws and turn the spur to get your paper back).

To adjust the slipper, put in a freshly charged battery, then give your truck full throttle from a dead stop. The clutch should squeal briefly as your truck takes off (or in my case, flips over ). If it squeals a lot, you need to tighten it or you'll burn the clutch up very fast. If you don't get any squeal, you need to loosen it so that you get a brief squeal. This squeal is the clutch slipping, and adjusting by this method will increase gear life. It is harder on the clutch, but it is very cheap to replace pads once in a while...much cheaper and less of a headache than replacing gears. When you replace the pads, I recommend scuffing the steel disc with sand paper, or just replacing it.

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