Aluminum Front and Rear Axle for 1/10 Axial Wraith 90018 90048 90053 90018 90020 90045 90056 RR10 RC Model Crawler Car (Silver)

I've put 20+ 3s packs through these on my crawler and here is what I think. They are ok but I wouldn't purchase again. I really like the idea of AR44 gears in an AR60 width axle for better ground clearance and lower gear ratio availability for less torque twist. However there are several issues which makes these not worth purchasing. If you are considering these, you can add in the expense of replacing the steering linkage, rear axle shafts, wheel hexes, M4 axle nuts and possibly ring & pinion. Read on to see why:Axles require full disassembly and reassembly with thread locker. Gears / pinion are not properly oriented or shimmed. If you run these without shimming and greasing the gears they won't last long, just too much slop. Gear ratio is 8/24T = 3:1. Not sure why these don't come with the standard 8/30T (3.75:1 ratio) that other AR44 axles have. The link mounts don't fit the axle housing properly due to poor machining and dremeling is required. Rear axle shafts bend very easily. The steering linkage is total garbage, it lasted 1/2 battery before the pressed in ball retainers came out. The axle nuts go straight in the trash. The 12mm hexes are 10mm wide which leaves minimal thread engagement, so throw those away. Bearing fitment is poor in most locations especially in the steering knuckles, so lots of slop there.My axles arrived with a bent rear axle shafts and the threads stripped on both. The seller responded quickly with a partial credit that almost covered the cost of replacement axles shafts. The universals seem to be holding up well and the housings are much heavier than plastic housing which is great for a crawler. The C-hubs are tough and have brass steering bushings!Minor components can be replaced with standard AR60 stuff: Axle shafts, bearings, AR44 gears, steering links.Major component parts are not available separately: 3rd member / pinion carrier, center housings, truss, etc.Another company (KYX) offers this style axle with 8/30T ratio gears, steering linkage with replaceable rod ends and Axial style 12mm hexes. Of course they are ~$55 more but look to be better quality.

both pins came out of the one of the axles be for i even put them on . all the screws where lose.

Ok so metal wraith axles that look decent, not to bulky, and will kinda fit replacement parts, these will work, sorta.... First run with them 5200kv brushless 120amp esc on 2 cell lipo.... I snapped the threaded tip of the axle off one of my rear tires. I had a replacement hardened steal axle. This was the fun part, you do not need beef tubes as the axel shafts are one solid piece of aluminum stock cut, milled, and drilled. Draw back was the drilled hole was to little to put the new axel in.... I had to grind off the lip on the new axle to allow it to pass through. There is no diff cover. To mess with the gears on the inside you have to take the face of the axle off. I do not think this is normal but where you would attach a sway bar to the axle one side seems to sit higher than the other. The link mounts also appear to do the same, and sticks out a little further.... For a crawler build i think these would be great low speed high torque metal/heavy low center of gravity beef. For a 40mph monster truck with massive amount of torque expect a few hiccups. Decent for the price, but dont expect bulletproof axles for $100.00. Keep it on a 10mph crawler if you dont plan to sink more money into gears and bearings and axle shafts. The steering linkage and knuckles seem pretty solid. Parts do need loctite and greese. Came with extremely big hex adapters too. Normally i think they are 10mm or so, these where 2 or 3 time bigger. Kicks the tire out so far you can barely get the nylon of the lock nut to hit the threads of the axle. All and all seems a good deal if you dont plan to bash with it.

First problem when I received these axles was the rear shock mount was missing, no big deal since I have spares. Before install I checks to make sure all hardware was tight to fine everything was snug as it should be but after the first drive I found that the majority of the smaller screws became extremely loose. After tightening them I got about two more drives before the same thing happened.If your a hobbyist that enjoys having quality parts that don’t loosen up as easy at these to, spend your money elsewhere

If you're familiar with full size offroad rigs, this is basically a hybrid 60/ 9 inch axle. Removable ar44 3rds that can be flipped for hi pinion or low with beefy ar60 shafts and heavy housings. High quality hardware and machining work on axle. Bearings at diff were dry but they are an open cage style bearing that can be packed with grease. Only flaw i could find was sloppy steering linkage and no loctite on anything. Suggest a full teardown with blue loctite or every screw will back out.

They're ar60 length with ar44 gears and I had to drill out the pinion to accept the driveshaft pin. Wouldn't buy again.

Worked great on my fj55 project seem sturdy and look bad ass love the wide stance of an ar60 axel time will tell if they hold up but for now 100 % awesome

First glance looking good but.. the shock/strut mounts don't fit housing have to modify housing to fit, that told me, attention to detail was not there, so, as with other alloy assemblies I have encountered the more one has to do to them to make them work, the crappier they are in the first place, yet, I need to run them for proper evaluations, on second glance the rear axle flange 12mm are too long I fuxed this by using original AX10 12mm flange nuts to gain proper distance to mount most wheels