TREAL Portal Axles for the TRX4M - Assembly, Run & Review!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I unbox, assemble, and run the brand new Treal portal axle upgrades for the Traxxas TRX4M! These axles are incredibly well made and include everything you need to do a complete axle swap on your TRX4M Bronco or Defender. This mod will dramatically increase your ground clearance, making it easier to traverse technical, rocky terrain.
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Timestamps
Unboxing and first look at the axles: 1:26
Assembly: 3:38
First look at finished axles: 5:43
First impressions on the rig: 7:39
Course runs: 10:46
Final thoughts: 16:07
Timestamps
Unboxing and first look at the axles: 1:26
Assembly: 3:38
First look at finished axles: 5:43
First impressions on the rig: 7:39
Course runs: 10:46
Final thoughts: 16:07
Btw what wheels and tires do u use on your gladiator? Also what shocks? I'm trying to upgrade my gladiator and the first things a want to upgrade is the wheels, tires and shocks
You could set your throttle and reverse back and just swap the motor wires around , stay safe mate 🇬🇧
Is this to fix the reverse light problem?
Love these trx4m build and test videos
I like how you show it improves in one or two areas but it's worse in another.
Gotta be real with you guys! Not every mod is a home run
So happy to see this in action. I may well get my own set. Treal is very much worth the money for the quality.
Agreed!
I paid $180 twice I have two pairs of there at portal axles for scx24 and I put them in every find I possibly can and cannot break them they are amazing they are the best on the market
I'm a big fan of portals, most times I sacrifice performance on the technical climbs with the increased COG. On my trail trucks portals rule.
I feel the same
I believe they make the best products when it comes to several things I haven't tested all their stuff but man their axles are amazing
Yet another great video. Well done. These portals seem too big for this scale though. You can see it on your obstacles. It's like running 1/16 rig
Great vid! Love the name 😂 Im trying to start a channel on rc and catch you in subs. But probably not possible cause your doing so well and hope you reach 100k subs by the end of this year. I also watch your videos all the time
First step is to start getting videos out. I started one in February. But I’m mostly on tiktok/Instagram since it works better vs TH-cam shorts.
Can definitely tell this might be your favorite rig😂
I love this thing!
@@CapeCrawlers it’s very obvious 🤣
A set of hardpark 1.0 wheels should help you tuck those portals into the wheels.
Great review Adam!
Those axles are crazy wide! That's a deal breaker for me. Hopefully another manufacturer can come up with a portal kit that maintains the stock axle width.
Yup that looks super ugly
I Thought About This Too. But If They Made Short Dedicated Portals You Really Wouldn't Gain Ground Clearance From Your Diff Because The Portal Adaptors Would Be So Close To Center. It Would Effectively Made It An Expensive Lift Kit. The Wider Stance Also Helps A Little With Making It Top Heavy. If They Made Stubby Portals It would Still Be An Effect Lift Kit As It Would Keep Your Driveshaft Angles From Being So Extreme.
Love all of the videos so much knowledge in every single one
Look at that climbed right up that cool 👍👍😎
One thing to note about these axles is that they’re incredibly waterproof. I completely submerge them and absolutely no water gets in the axles or portal boxes. I’m not even running o rings on the shafts.
Great vid, I love Treal parts, as you said quality in every part, perfect fitment...great M looks awesome and great performance!!!!! I know you say it needs help but seems to be awesome, but your on another lever when comes to crawling.....lol..👍👍💯
Bro I just left a message earlier about how you jumped like ten thousand subscribers in the last couple weeks and now you jumped up to 37,000 is like you was just at 36/4 or something like that and I tune back in and Bam you are at 37
The axel width would look great on the Furitek Beetle Comp chassis with 60-63mm tires. Great video, been great watching the evolution of the channel...🤙
I’m thinking the same thing. I may do a swap this week
With bigger 1.2 sized wheels with more positive offset. Does that make any sense? Kinda like the CR-18P EVO Pro
I think it might look good with the bigger 1.2 wheels with a more positive offset. Kinda like the CR-18P EVO Pro
Nice man! Think axles are solid looking. Can’t wait to see your videos on what your fix is for cons now. Having similar issues with my K5. Can’t find that happy medium between front lifting and overall ride height.
Awesome looks amazing man you ask me it's going to help sidehill and it help your vertical being wide out
Got mine installed under my orange defender. I like them over all, but one thing i have noticed it a lot of torque lift of the passanger front when i throttle it hard
De-pin the motor conector and reverse wires then it will work like normal with the lights and trigger
With the Holmes hobbies motor you can switch the wires instead of on the radio and that should bring the lighting kit back to normal
Yes! That worked perfectly!
i unpluged my motor and switched the order of the wires that plug in the ESC and that changed the rotation of the motor without changing the transmitter direction
That worked perfectly!
Please show these axles with wheels that dont have as prominent of a negative offset to see if it still looks ridiculously wide
Wow that cost is more than the truck cost, what will you do to keep it from flipping over backwards, seems you fix one thing and it screws up something else. Great videos keep up the good work!
I totally dig it great looking truck
I just got a trx4m and Itd be nice if were a metal body or just heavier overall for more realistic drive
Could you try straight links? The trx4m skid is weird and limits how low you can go before the binding issue with high clearance links.
But I think with the portal axles increased underbody clearance their isn’t really a need for the bent links.
I ended up getting the treal 1.0 crawler wheels because the offset brings the wheels inward a little
Love those treal wheels.
Got mine on Monday, but one of the front Outer portal covers for the short shaft is machined completely through. No lip to hold the bearing. Waiting on the seller and Treal to replace the cover. 6:43
I’m a little late to the party regarding the portal axles, have you thought about maybe having the spare tire & wheel on the hood for extra weight, and maybe a brass front bumper. What do you think?
Yea far to wide, they should have shortened the round axle section to compensate for the portal width. Think I’ll hold off on these, bummer cause I wanted some portals on the Trx4m
Well, no shit....you needed to reverse your throttle, I needed to reverse my steering lol. So, hey, thanks homie! Why are you the only time I've ever seen this mentioned? Did I miss something in the manual?
Remove rear brass and replace with aluminum to help get bias
I wish treal sold complete fcx portals for that! I refuse to pay 50 bucks for a bare housing.
Could you do a MEUS Ripper build for the TRX4M. They've got a bunch of cool stuff on their website, even 6x6.
I ended up using the treal brass steering link and diff covers because the red didn't fit my color scheme
Yeah you get what you pay for, Yep here watching just home from work
I actually love the width. What size hex did they come with and can you put a wider hex?
Either stock, injora or Holmes motors, I just reversed the motor plug in the esc... works normal
Perfect!
I luv the clip less body mounts but I'd it up for reg adjustable body post being not able to adjust body height is frustrating 🙃
Completely agree.
First off love your show very informative when u have the time could I get a list of names of every product u have used. Love ur set up ...I'm very new to 1/18 and 1/24 scale like maybe a month in..been in the 1/10 monster truck scene for years ,original clodbuster heavily modified an smt..thank u very much would really appreciate it
Thanks for watching! I am going to do an update video on this truck and I will include the full parts list in the description. Look for that in the next week or so
@@CapeCrawlers thank u so much from the island of Oahu
try the treal scx24 portals
There's some tricks that you can do to make it you know how you want it obviously
Saw a opening and review of trx4m compared to the defender version, guy showed that from stock this bronco is 50/50 on weight distribution so it’s something you did
I haven’t done anything except wheels and tires and these axles. The carbon chassis shouldn’t shift things around that much I can’t imagine
Crazy. On Hell's Gate it looks like torque twist is completely eliminated? What would you say? Also, you've gotta get the new INJORA bumper set for the Bronco. It's awesome.
Portal axles kind of help with reducing torque twist.
you may have to run two different sets of wheels brass on the front and aluminum or steel on the back
Or at least some brass rings in the wheels up front
@@CapeCrawlers for sure but if thats not enough i thin id consider two diff wheel sets you can even get the same design more than likely through treal or something or even through mofo wheels i bet he could make a matching set where the fron it brass but the rear isnt
hows does yours climb being so heavy? lol.. I took all the brass off mine n just swap out different rims and weighted wheel hex now. I mainly run my tyrx4m on trails, all the weight killed the hill climbin.. when ever i get portals, probably gunna go with an aluminum kit..
ty for all th videos
You need to reverse the wires on the motor then everything works as it should.
I didn't even think of that! And the Holmes Hobbies motors has the wires separated, so it should be super simple.
I was gonna ask this question @capecrawlers should pin this comment.
Did you have any problems mounting the servo cause the treal come with a servo mount or did you use the injora servo mount and any problems?
Look I bought spare front axles and spare rear axles I have tried to break them on my scx24 you can't I haven't been able to and I put mine in horrible spots horrible and what school is the scx24 portal gear fit2 trx4 M portal years so you could run over drive or under Drive in both of the rigs with the same gears
Have you tried a Transverse servo mount on one of these TRX4m’s? Just saw one on Amazon
Is there a way to fix the light kit now??
Just buy the heavier portal covers, they are brass and come in different colors.
will the injora lay down servo mount work for these?
Its Hard To Tell In Video But Are The Portal Gears 1:1? Treal Sells Over Drive Portal Gears But I Want To Confirm Its OD From 1:1 And Not OD From An Already Gear Reduction In The Portal Gears They Come With. Also Does Anyone Know If Traxxas Diff Gears Work In These Housings?
I literally only run the outside portal cover cuz it how heavy they are
Yo Adam! Question: When you installed these, did it make your rig go backwards, the 1st go around? I stalled the MEUS version on my TRX4M K10 & made mine go backwards for some resson....trying to figure it out. 🤔🤨
Yes it did. The gears in the portals reverse throttle direction. Flip your motor wires around and it will fix it
@@CapeCrawlers cool.
Dude, Adam, looove the portal axles on creamsicle… im gonna do a pair of meus on my new bronco and hope i get the clearance u got…. Did u ever figure out how to switch the light kit around after the throttle switch
To reverse the lights/throttle, I switched wires on the motor connection. Works perfect!
@@CapeCrawlers thanks!!
How wide are these portal? I can't find specific information.
Sorry list for trx4m ,I got defender
Did you figure out the reverse lights when using these portals?
Yes, I switched my motor wires around and it works perfect
@@CapeCrawlers yeah thats what i was thinking about doing as well. good deal. thanks
On the trx4m would you recommend injoras shock mounts with multiple positions or a carbon frame with multiple shock locations. I'm looking for what would perform best for crawling and keeping a stock body. Thanks so much.
I prefer the chassis swap myself. The cost difference between the two isn't huge and the chassis gives you much more options for customization.
Where did you get the flex blades at?
Would a lower offset (not deep dish) wheel fit ? Or would it hit portal housings
have you figured out the reverse lights? I'm struggling
Yes, I flipped the motor wires around and that solved it
What about reversing the motor wires instead of reversing it on the controller?
I did just that 👍🏻
Curious about diff gears. Diff cover is compatible with others. What about internal gears. Can you put in injora over drive/ under drive helical gears in?
Yes! I put the Injora underdrive gears in without any issue
PUT THEM ON THE COMP TRX4M
I was thinking the same thing
how do you deal with tire scrub?
Hey what are those brackets on the bottom of the rear shocks I like that
I think they’re flex blades. From adaptive designs.
Eu sou brasileiro e queria saber se eles vendem pra nós do Brasil? E se o site é confiável?
What servo do you run on Creamsicle?
What diff cover and steering link did you use?
They were part of a kit I got on Amazon: amzn.to/43IwOCk
if you want to sell this let me know. lol. i cannot find treal portals anywhere. i have been waiting to start a new build until I get them.
Is it possible to build a scx 24 from ground up without the actual car or are there some pieces that are not available separately? With furitek electronics and aftermarket parts for example.
I am waiting all the parts to do this with thr injora buggy body/chassis and every upgrade part no standard scx24 parts at all, every single part is available aftermarket., even using the servo, esc/reciever and controller from an fcx24. Not even sure if I can technically it an scx24 when it's done. Not cheap at £250, but id be putting all these upgrades on any way so technically saving £150 by not buying thr base truck.
@@Jaffroman87 nice! I had the same Idea. Good to know its possible. I will have to do quite some Research for this but could be an interesting Project.
Meus all brass portals, or these treal axles?
Treals
@CapeCrawlers any issues with the meus axles? My buddy has em on the way, they look so badass and beefy
not sure if i some how missed it, but do the portals offer reduction / OD or UD?
They do not
What are you running on the rear axles that connect your shocks?? Thanks
They're flex extensions from Adaptive Designs.
No wheelwell gaps , no articulation
What front bumper is that? Thanks!
It’s a printed bumper by sketch 2 life on Etsy
@@CapeCrawlers thanks man I looked all over for it but not there lol
What front bumper is that
www.etsy.com/listing/1410779101/combo-trx4m-bronco-bumper-upgrade-kit?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=trx4m+bumper&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&organic_search_click=1
Is it just me, or are these longer than the stock axles?? 🤔🤨
Wicked! They are ~5-6mm wider per side I bet.
@@CapeCrawlers daaaaang dude! 😯
What size tires are those?
58mm I believe
does it fix the turque twist
The Injora shocks fixed the torque twist for me. I dont think the axles alone would have done it.
@@CapeCrawlers oh bc i bought the injora shocks and my body leans even more
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Get rid of the flex blades!
Y dont you just flip the wheels around
The width on these makes for a hideous looking rig