The Furry Critter

Hi there! Another technical problem I hope you guys can help me with! Basically, I was running my Tamiya Lunchbox the other weekend when i stupidly drove it full speed into a ditch hoping it would come back out...but it didn't. It landed with a great thud and as soon as I got it out, there was this grinding noise coming from the gearbox. It sounded like it was running with an engine, so I carried on driving it, hoping it would sort itself out. No luck, and five minutes later, the car just gave up, with the sound of a free spinning gear coming from it. I got it home and noticed that the pinion gear (stock gold one) had seemed to have a lot of the gold paint worn off (which explains the grinding). There also seemed to be chunks out of the pinion gear's teeth. So what I did was buy a new pinion (identical), but there is still grinding when I run it or I just can't get it to make contact with the gearbox. I really don't know what it is as there seems to be no damage to the the other gears. Any ideas? By the way, I was using an 18t Ansmann Clash motor with full bb setup. Thanks very much - A quick reply would be appreciated! Matt

My hair lol - it was nicknamed 'The Furry Critter' because it was big and bushy!! I did a google on 'furry critter' and this came up: http://www.nofenders.net/uploaded_images/Marmot-786862.jpg so, i cropped it and stuck it on a black background. Voila!!

Thanks very much for all the advice guys...don't know what the best option is really to be honest. It's probably best to sell the motor I guess, unless I was going to get something like a TA-05. On the subject of connectors, I bought a motor fan + heatsink and it has a small plug on the end of it that fits perfectly into the acoms receiver batt. socket. However, there seems to be no power. Could someone give me a link to the appropriate adapter that would allow me to connect it to the battery for example. Cheers again Matt

I bought these from MSUK recently: http://www.modelsport.co.uk/?CallFunction=...mp;ItemID=24592 http://www.modelsport.co.uk/?CallFunction=...mp;ItemID=31552 Technically they should work together in a TT-01E, but I ran them today and acceleration is 'pulsey.' It cuts out when accelerating, then it regains speed, then cuts out again! Sounds very similar to this (The post from 'Kenny M'): http://www.rcracechat.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15703 Any ideas? Cheers