Does Brass really help for better Sidehilling?

Does adding Brass Covers help? Lets find out!! Links below for all kinds of brass covers and knuckles and more of what I have in the Bronco, use the links to help support Exocaged RC Thanks!!

Traxxas TRX4 2021 Bronco

Brass on Ebay for the TRX4

RC6gs Radio

Hobbywing Fusion 1800kv

Proline TRXus Tires

Traxxas 2250 Servo

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[DMHRC]

The trick to pop the bearings out of the cover was worth more than the price of admission. Thanks for a great video!

[andrewrichey]

That’s awesome dude appreciate you sharing this I love this hobby this is the beauty of The Hobby. Love that bronco, I have two 79 Broncos love your videos I have been following have a great day

[saturnfive]

Nice tip getting the bearing (smaller of the two) out of the portal cover. Good info as always man, thanks!!!

[grski]

I found that adding brass inside the wheels ( beef tubes or Chinese copies ) seems to have the best all round performance, in my heavier TRX4 scale rigs I use portal brass front and back and c hub carriers in brass up front, this rig will slide down on obstacles where some of my lighter Cheater rigs will stay planted, but when it comes to steep climbs the heavier rigs have a better advantage on certain loose or slippy surfaces, oh and run Yellow springs up front and white in the rear, hope that helps some TRX4 owners out there, great video Exo ✌🏻

[madsrcbuggy]

That's really interesting! I just spent a fortune on brass stuff for my Gatekeeper, I still like to believe it was the right thing to do, it's a very top heavy rig... On my SCX24 it has definitely seemed to help with the brass. Thanks for taking the time to test it out!

[Rc-Adventurers]

Cool experiment. I always like to find out what the limits of the 1:1 is and see how my scale rigs compares. If I meet or slightly exceeds 1:1 I’m happy.

[nemdrc]

Will definitely be using the flick trick for blind bearings 🙌🏽

[michaeltrilck]

Hi! Nice Test on the Bench... A small Batterie was the best tip... A very scale Body with "Driver/Seats/Toolbox, Rooftent, Mountainbike, Spare-Tires, Axe, Shovel a. s. o." is heavy, a light "Race-Body" can not be very scale, Portals are good for Mud, straight axles are good for side-hilling... a light car + Paddel-Tires are good for Dune- /Hill-Race AND : One car can not fit to(on?) every Trail (or Show?) ... I think... 😉 😎

[BNIRc]

Absolutely awesome brother this is been the debate I've been having with myself to add these always can come to your channel for excellent facts oh and grab the Traxxas link I would love to see a compared to your actual angle gauge

[DoubleADay]

When I'm ready, I'll definitely be ordering a set of vitavon axles for my trx4 with the long arm kit on it. Plenty of weight down low as possible

[FarmerFpv]

The problem you're having is no tire sidewall support. Before Antifoams I would cut up old tire side walls and glue them on the inside of the sidewall of the tire then put in the foam. You still get a good grip and bite but the sidewall doesn't fold causing premature tipping. I would get a whole 3 to 4 degrees more incline hold on sidehilling with that mod. Now they have anti-foams which do the same thing I used to do years ago. They support the side wall without compromising grip and bite.

[Houleigan]

Nice work! Keep up the great content!

[Oldmonstrosityshop]

Interesting. Thanks for the experimentation Prof. Exocaged 😜 Have you checked out Korea RC’s shock mod of taking the oil out and the plastic o ring? His Axial SCX10 looks so scale bouncing around with that mod. Wonder if it’ll work on the TRX-4? He’s got a hard body on though so the weight up too probably helps

[JPM]

Put on some brass center diff covers and brass links. Those will help. Only things that will help will be items below the chassis and or below center line of the drive axles.

[seanclarke]

Really love this test! I'm wondering what tasteful mods I should do for my bronco too! I definitely want to keep it mild/mostly stock.

Figured you would want to remove the fo winch Joe! Tucks in that front lip quite a bit, and traxxas did a great job allowing us to remove it with a few screws!

[jamesswift]

Ok Joe, do you think you would get the same reading if you had a wench on it, thank you for the tips👍👍💯💯

[stompindakka]

Try a lower battery position Bow house RC makes a lcg battery mount and i find it made a big difference. based on my my finding in my trx4 Tactical.

[martinhogqvist]

You should have shown how much the brass helps with climbing instead, there it really shows results👍🏼😊

[patmanz]

I would have liked it comparison of adding brass with a heavy battery versus trying a smaller battery lower in the battery tray

[johngantner]

could you do a video about whole steering assembly and servo install on xmaxx? what servo do you an your friends use to hold up to all those sweet back flips ya do!?! Thankyou for your time