Worth upgrading to a 4:1 steel gearbox?

[Blackadder123]

The current gearbox in my Taigen Pershing is the standard Taigen metal 3:1 gearbox (could be zinc or steel, is there a way to tell?). While it does drive nice and slow, the movement seems a little jerky to create the fully realistic tank movement. Would upgrading to a 4:1 gearbox improve the slow speed maneuverability ( i.e. driving in a curve smoothly without speeding up) via the increased torque?

Anyways, I found a few contenders for the gearbox upgrade on this website:

https://heng-long-panzer.de/de/ZUBEHOeR ... R-PERSING/

Should I stick to the Taigen brand 4:1 gearboxes for the best fit or are the Heng long ones just as good? Is there a noticeable quality difference between Taigen and HL in terms of gear boxes?

Thanks for any suggestions!

[tomhugill]

Yes the Taigen 4:1 are a good upgrade

[Smaily]

Hi all, I want to replace plastic gearboxes for metal/steel ones in my HL Pz. III. Now it seems that I found some that should fit to my current plastic hull: http://www.ebay.com/itm/322432389779

Anyone know if those are fine? Or any other You can recommend for Pz. III plastic hull from HL? As far as found, that Pz. can be nice runner also without metal hull (of course it will need track tensioners, probably suspension, wheels and tracks also in metal). For now I was not outside with it, so even all plastic is fine running on the flor, but I want to go outside with it

THX