Front drive shaft angle

[Sibstr]

I have a problem with the front drive shaft. It has an angle of 37 degrees and that's too much. I think that the maximum angle should be about 30 degrees. Because the angle of the drive shaft is too big the wheels don't turn smoothly but in a jerky motion.
I have a kit with original drive shaft and no upgrades. I've seen a lot of Enduro chassis photos here on the forum and I don't see the difference between my drive shaft and links settings and the settings of others.
Any idea how to solve this problem?

 

[JacktheRipper]

Might have look at the housing angle, moving that will change that angle. It is set by the lower links.

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[jeeptec]

I have the Trailwalker truck. Mine is exactly the same. You could get different links but then I believe you’d have to move the behind the axle steering to in front of axle. My hobby store salesman noticed the extreme angle when I bought my truck. There is a video of someone who lowered his truck but taking the shocks and mounting them on the lower link mounts and moved the steering to in front of the axle. It showed it helped.
Also I was watching Scale builders guild and the host just installed the new Element R/C IFS kit. Yes independent front suspension. Why? The host stated you loose some articulation. Maybe one of the aftermarket companies will make a housing that rotates the pinion upwards to fix the extreme driveline angle.


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[svt923]

Maybe more work than some would choose to do but I made a new skidplate that drops the whole transmission 5 mm.

It is not a drastic change but the driveshaft angle is flattened out by a few degrees and the heavy (very heavy if using the steel gears) transmission and motor are lowered for better CG.

 

[Sibstr]

Thank you for your advice, the problem solved. Sometimes it is good to open the manual:roll: My problem was in incorrect phasing drive shaft. One end of drive shaft was turned 90 degrees. This caused jerk wheels motion.
The problem explained in this video: Driveshaft Angle and Phasing

 

[Sherman]

Thank you for your advice, the problem solved. Sometimes it is good to open the manual:roll: My problem was in incorrect phasing drive shaft. One end of drive shaft was turned 90 degrees. This caused jerk wheels motion.
The problem explained in this video: Driveshaft Angle and Phasing

Glad to hear you got it fixed! I ran across the same issue after cracking open the transmission to swap to the 12% overdrive gears and ended up re-installing my driveshafts out of phase. Confused me for a bit, but I figured it out after some Googling!