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merlot Apprentice

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Hi all, new here!

 

I'm looking to restore my old fox and I'm missing the gear box and most importantly, the gears.  These are impossible to find!  How are you folks restoring your Fox's?  Is there anyway to peice together the gears from a different model? Do I need to purchase a junker online to obtain them?

 

Thanks

Mike

 

akemag Mentor

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Sorry if my reply doesent help you, but i guess(hope) they cant be harder to find than new Sand Rover/Holiday Buggy gears.These are HARD to come by. But Flux density had a pair up recently, and a pair is also on ebay (if you pay £$£$), and yes i got a pair NIP at home (SR/HB gears): Lucky me!

Sorry for ranting on about SR/HB gears, i really am. I hope you find a set of Fox gears real soon!

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I know exactly what you mean about the Fox gear set. I deperately needed one so I put an add up here - in my traderoom and in the wanted section in the forums. It took about a month before someone actually e-mailed me to sell me one.

So like Incredible Serious said, you best bet is to stick a wanted add in the traderooms.

Good luck!

merlot Apprentice

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Thanks all for the replies!  I can't beleive how RC's have taken a hold of me again!  Xmas '85 is when I got my Fox and that was probably the best present I had ever recieved.  I remember many, many fun days of building, running, and fixing it!

 

Mike, best thing to do is to just ask here.... someone will find one for you!

 Actually..... I think I found one last night.... let me check!

Alex

 

Alex, that would fantastic if you can come up with a set!  Please let me know if you do and if you can part with it! 

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Be careful, this hobby is addictive! Those RC cars can start adding up real quick.

Regarding the Fox gearset, there was another discussion on here a while back on this exact subject, and the problem is that the Fox doesn't share exactly the same gears with any other car.

The only possible bit that is similar to other cars is the counter gear. The Wild One/FAV counter gear is similar, but the spur is 52 teeth as opposed to the 50 tooth Fox spur gear, so might be too large. I'd be interested to know if that fits. Actually, a Frog counter gear might fit, as that has an option for a 50T spur, and the pinion is 18T just like the Fox. I might have to do some tinkering...

The diff and driveshafts are definitely unique to this car though.

Thorp did make a replacement ball differential and counter gear for the Fox, but these are even harder to get, and are very expensive. Hot Trick make a driveshaft replacement kit that allows you to use RC10 dogbones.

- James

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I've just finshed my Fox resto. But I had NIP gears in the new built that I was restoring. I have just stripped down another Fox runner and cleaned the gear set. The driveshafts were sold some weeks ago, but I still have all the gears if anyone wants to buy them from me. Check Ebay in the coming week.

Was the Fox pinion aluminium or steel? My new built came with a 15T aluminium, but my recent runner strip down resulted in both a 15T & 18T -both were steel!

merlot Apprentice

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I've just finshed my Fox resto. But I had NIP gears in the new built that I was restoring. I have just stripped down another Fox runner and cleaned the gear set. The driveshafts were sold some weeks ago, but I still have all the gears if anyone wants to buy them from me. Check Ebay in the coming week.

Was the Fox pinion aluminium or steel? My new built came with a 15T aluminium, but my recent runner strip down resulted in both a 15T & 18T -both were steel!

 

<raises hand>  I'll buy them! [:D]

 

What do you clean the gears with?  I'm currently rebuilding my King Cab and a number of parts need to be cleaned.  I was thinking using a little bit of kerosene.

 

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I only use household dish washing detergent. Using solvent based cleaners, such as kerosene or degreaser theoretically breaks down CH bonds in plastics. The extreme being mineral turpentine. Even if the parts don't melt, their strength may be degraded over time. If the gears are absolutely coated in thick grease, such as green/grey molybdenum (spelling?) I would use a rag to wipe most of it off (with gloves) and then soak the gears in straight detergent. Takes time, but is not chemically aggressive on plastics.

 Glad to hear I don't need to exchange pinions in my Fox - thanks HunterZero.

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What do you clean the gears with?  I'm currently rebuilding my King Cab and a number of parts need to be cleaned.  I was thinking using a little bit of kerosene.

 

I wipe down as much as I can with a rag and then I scrub the parts with a toothbrush and liquid hand soap or dishwashing detergent - rinse and repeat until they are clean.  I wouldn't use solvents on plastic parts as they may eat into the part and deform it or degrade the plastic making it brittle.

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