You guys are gonna laugh, motor swap...

[Marc780]

I'm getting the metal treads for my Tiger 1 as i blabbed on about at length in a previous post. I had these metal gearboxes, from ali express, got em so long ago i cant remember who made them. They would not fit in the King tiger, the only tank i had when i ordered these gearboxes, so i set them aside and just kept using the old ones.

But now that I have the tiger treads coming i wanted to upgrade to the steel gearboxes. I "borrowed" the steel shafts from my Panzer mark III, that had the metal gearbox, and that's waiting on other parts . Rather then just do a straight swap of the Mark III box into the tiger (what i should have done in the first place!) I swapped the short shafts to the new gearboxes. These gearboxes went in just fine and everything functions as it should except:

FORWARD and BACK functions on the transmitter stick are now reversed!!! push forward to go reverse, back goes forward. Turning functions as normal. I tried the obvious, switching the motor wires pos and neg-of course that didn't work. I'm a tiny bit irate, but seriously thinking of leaving it how it is and just relearn on the Tx! Does anybody know what my options are to do about this?

Here's a picture of the gears FWIW

[ALPHA]

Usually when you get opposite reaction when hooking up the motor...all you do is switch the plugs in the RX

ALPHA

[Marc780]

Alpha you've done it again...did not think to do that! i thought that would affect the steering...indeed that did the trick.
Thank Alpha, whom i consider among the experten here...you ain't "steered" me wrong yet!

[jackalope]

Alpha beat me to it. Either way glad to hear its works properly now.

[Marc780]

By the way Alpha, when are you getting the King Tiger to complete the collection? I was surprised not to see one on the list.
If I had the funds burning a hole in my pocket, i'd spring for a full metal one if they even make it yet-they will soon. Now THAT would be a project alright. Most powerful of everything for the drivetrain i'd want. And hope you get more then 4 min battery life out of the beast lol

[jackalope]

Hey Marc, get a battery that is like 5100 mah and it'll run a LOT longer then 10 min. My Tiger weighs its at 13 pounds so far and I can run it for a good 2 hours straight and she keeps right on going.

However the battery that came with my King Tiger which is rated at 2000 mah couldn't make it 2 trips around the block outside. I just need to get another set of Traxas connectors so I can use the Tigers battery in the KT untill I can aford another one.

[ALPHA]

By the way Alpha, when are you getting the King Tiger to complete the collection? I was surprised not to see one on the list.
If I had the funds burning a hole in my pocket, i'd spring for a full metal one if they even make it yet-they will soon. Now THAT would be a project alright. Most powerful of everything for the drivetrain i'd want. And hope you get more then 4 min battery life out of the beast lol

Going to start on my King Tiger Heng long to Tamiya conversion right after I finish up my L70 Mark...so real sooon... been holding off just because of the size of the tanks

ALPHA

[Marc780]

Hey Marc, get a battery that is like 5100 mah and it'll run a LOT longer then 10 min. My Tiger weighs its at 13 pounds so far and I can run it for a good 2 hours straight and she keeps right on going.

However the battery that came with my King Tiger which is rated at 2000 mah couldn't make it 2 trips around the block outside. I just need to get another set of Traxas connectors so I can use the Tigers battery in the KT untill I can aford another one.

Thanks, thats a good idea...mine drop a full volt just after driving them about 300 yards. I have the venom 7.2 v 3000 mamps, recommended by somebody on this forum, might as well get a more powerful one.

[jackalope]

Hey Marc, get a battery that is like 5100 mah and it'll run a LOT longer then 10 min. My Tiger weighs its at 13 pounds so far and I can run it for a good 2 hours straight and she keeps right on going.

However the battery that came with my King Tiger which is rated at 2000 mah couldn't make it 2 trips around the block outside. I just need to get another set of Traxas connectors so I can use the Tigers battery in the KT untill I can aford another one.

Thanks, thats a good idea...mine drop a full volt just after driving them about 300 yards. I have the venom 7.2 v 3000 mamps, recommended by somebody on this forum, might as well get a more powerful one.

No problem Marc glad to help. Just for reference I took my King Tiger to the park and before I lost the left transmission I drove the tank WELL over a 1/2 mile and the batteries still aren't dead.