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Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 7:45 pm
by Neil64
Hi guy what a nightmare I am having , I have the Heng long challenger 2 it came with metal hubs , idler wheels and metal tracks , I can only run it on carpet or concrete , if I put it on grass it de-tracking tracks it's self
So I got some anti-slip drive hubs from RC Tank legion I fitted them and the tracks don't come off but only 2 teeth at any time are meshed with the track ?
The only difference I can see is the teeth on the Heng long hubs are finner and sharper than the new hubs ?
So what do I do now I am at a total loss

- New hub and old hub
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Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 8:05 pm
by Neil64
https://youtube.com/shorts/nQTuFxGdw4I? ... uEWaETY7eS
This may help you guys tell me what's wrong I thinks it the teeth are to fat
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 8:45 pm
by ColemanCollector
I'd overlay the new and old sprockets to doublecheck that the teeth are the same spacing and then file away if the tips of the teeth line up properly.
Mike.
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 8:49 pm
by Neil64
Hi Mike I did do that and the new hubs teeth are wider than the old one ,spacing is the same if you put teeth centre to centre on the hubs
So it's a file job , by hand or use a small grinder
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 9:16 pm
by tankme
It's that damn British engineering at work... They could've just used the same sprockets as the Abrams or the Leopard, but ...nooooo...they had to do it their way.

Seriously though, there are tons of posts on how bad the Heng Long Challenger is keeping it's tracks on. Those teeth are definitely too fat. A little bit of filing on both sides of the teeth should help.
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 9:58 pm
by Neil64
Thanks guys is it best by hand with a file or dremel
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 11:02 pm
by Meter rat
Try a simple solution before you take a file to the new sprockets.
Use the old sprockets and use a washer between the drive shaft and the sprocket inner. Use a second washer between the two half’s of the sprocket. Once the tracks sit deeper in the sprockets it can eliminate the tracks coming off.

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Hopefully my highly technical drawing makes sence?
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2025 12:19 am
by ColemanCollector
I'm curious--what makes the rc tank legion sprockets "anti-slip?
Mke.
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2025 1:20 am
by tankme
It's not the sprocket teeth, it's the addition of the hub that the guide teeth run in. I think it's a bad name for the function personally.
Re: Help with anti-slip hubs
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2025 6:14 pm
by Sub
Hi,
I think they are called track Inducers, where they guide the track teeth in the centre of the sprocket, instead of it just floating about in mid air.
Sub.