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Hey guys, I just recently bought some Taigen 5:1 steel gearboxes for my Taigen metal early tiger 1. Unfortunately, they give it almost no torque at all! What should I do? Keep in mind I cannot return the GBs.

OK. Good morning and welcome. How are you?

So when you signed into the forum, there were some rules and guidelines. One of them was introduce yourself and your interest in the hobby. I am not a moderator, but I have jumped in so you will realise you may get a rather blunt response to your two posts so far.

Please try the introduction section and you will likely get better responses.

Estnische wrote:OK. Good morning and welcome. How are you?

So when you signed into the forum, there were some rules and guidelines. One of them was introduce yourself and your interest in the hobby. I am not a moderator, but I have jumped in so you will realise you may get a rather blunt response to your two posts so far.

Please try the introduction section and you will likely get better responses.

Mr Estnische, this is still your forum, we are all forum members, moderators or not, and if you don't like the way a new member is conducting himself, you are always welcome to speak out. The only difference between you and I, I have some forum controls at my fingertips while I take notice of the regular members

Mr Lasvooch, it may be a good idea to pop along to the introductory section and tell us all a bit about yourself and how far along you are in this hobby.

LasvoochTheTiger1Ace wrote:Hey guys, I just recently bought some Taigen 5:1 steel gearboxes for my Taigen metal early tiger 1. Unfortunately, they give it almost no torque at all! What should I do? Keep in mind I cannot return the GBs.

You could always pay attention and take note of all the good advice you received on RCuniverse for the same questions you've already asked more than once that I've just read.

Oh, no, it's all good. I was merely trying to help out a newbie, as to why there may not have been any responses. Didn't want to seem like I was setting the rules.

Sorry fellas, just starting out on this forum and I did not even realize that there was a intro. section. I will get right on that!

One thing you will find is that '5:1' unfortunately does not refer to the drive ratio. Somewhere on here is a chart referring to the actual ratio. e.g. in order they go 4:1 - 5:1 - 3:1. Changing out the motors may help give you extra grunt, but care has to be taken that you don't overheat your control board.

I haven't gone down that road so hopefully some of the other members might help with advice.

Taigen dont make 5:1 ratio gearboxes. Only 3:1 and 4:1
Maybe you buy this:

https://www.rctank.de/Tigre-I-51-PRO-st ... hort-axles

I have it in my panzer 3 and they dont have enought power in grass to turn - so in tiger probably they have not enought power in grass to move forward

Perhaps he’s referring to these.

These are Taigen branded gearboxes that shipped with my metal hull. They were listed as 5:1.
For some reason I didn’t like them and switched to Taigen 4:1. Now DKLM makes my tank go.

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Lo_Thar wrote:Taigen dont make 5:1 ratio gearboxes. Only 3:1 and 4:1
Maybe you buy this:

https://www.rctank.de/Tigre-I-51-PRO-st ... hort-axles

I have it in my panzer 3 and they dont have enought power in grass to turn - so in tiger probably they have not enought power in grass to move forward

Taigen does make those gearboxes, but Imex doesn't carry them.

Jimster, the boxes in the photo on the box you show are 3:1 gear boxes. Have you got a photo of the actual gearboxes themselves? The 5:1 look completely different. Have you seen the video I did about this?