Vanquish Products F10 Portal Axle Step-by-Step Instructions

The Vanquish Products F10 Portal Axles come equipped in the new VS4-10 Phoenix. These are the first molded axle design from Vanquish Products. These axle feature an ultra rigid portal housing design that will handle serious abuse.
Start of Front Axle - 0:14
Third Member Assembly - 0:21
Brass Front Tubes - 2:33
Front Stub Axle - 2:55
Front Portal Cover - 3:18
Steering Knuckles (inner) - 3:53
Front Axle Shafts & Upper Portal Gear - 4:40
Knuckle onto Axle Housing - 5:12
Shims/Washers - 5:44
Start of Rear Axle - 6:08
Third Member into Rear Housing - 6:18
Rear Brass Tubes - 6:39
Rear Stube Axle - 6:53
Rear Portal Cover - 7:13
Rear Axle Shafts - 7:43
Rear Portal Cover Install - 8:13
Rear Oil Fill Cap - 8:27
Shims/Washers - 8:57
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[@toddbertram6556]

It blows me away the variable overdrive has just hit the market now. Better late than never. The Phoenix seems like an amazing kit. Just another great product from the leaders in the scale rc world.

[@cncrcOG]

started building mine this morning, been fun so far, but visual videos help me thanks for the upload! Will be watching the others as well thanks again

[@Art-zs6sl]

Brass inserts? Cool! These look very nice. I like the Phoenix body as well.

[@openoutlaw]

Excellent instructional video. My wife is going to be building her rig soon and this video should make it very easy for her. Thank you

[@billderas3420]

Excellent video. Went back into my rear axle assembly to check that I had properly oriented the two axles. And, I had...LOL

[@johngookinsable]

Cool video! Always helpful info from Harley Design

[@ferdis7]

When will the axles be available separately? :)

[@flatlander7288]

Just picked up my kit this weekend. Going to try a R3008SB receiver with my 7PX. Hoping the castle telemetry works with the extra channels. Keep up the great content. Much appreciated!

[@raymonde.tanneratomic-rc9370]

Explained nicely

[@allmightygreatone1048]

Thank you for the informative videos. When it's time to repair my traxxas trx4 I will certainly need to view your traxxas how to videos.

[@nathanstewart2018]

I'm sure I'll be going back and watching all of these videos. I have one on back order from Amain. I'm ready to get started on it.

[@saturnfivehynrgrc581]

Josh Many thanks for putting in the time/effort. Product development, support and marketing is an exhausting effort that never stops. This truck is certainly on my watch list. Job well done and I hope Vanquish recognizes your efforts. Side note: Check the Three Stooges "Dizzy Doctors" a good laugh (my opinion) on the goo gone/goof off thing. Cheers

[@timhutchinson6583]

The shims would go on the inside of the pinion gear to adjust the ring and pinion

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

That is not correct in this case. The intention of these shims is to adjust in and out backlash to with the driveshaft due to the forces that hypoid gears create, not to adjust mesh.

[@brown714oso8]

Where can we purchase these shims at?! I need to order some please. Thanks!

[@lacucaracha111111]

From the transmission this might be my next kit, finally a gear shifter that dioesnt seem to have 50° of wheel rotation before it engages

[@splatteredfrog]

Hello Josh I have a question about the f10 rear portal axle shaft can't find the replacement part using the parts list vps08611. Or is there a different shaft that fits ?

[@GeezerGramps]

I’m I to assume that all the bearing are lubed at the factory?

[@danielkonrad1444]

On my kit, the brass tubes do not fit snug, they are totally loose and fall out easily. Should'nt they fit tight? On the front axle they are nice an tight in the housing.

[@mikebrewz]

This is my first kit so I don't know what I'm doing 😂. A friend told me to fill the diff and portals with grease to keep water out. Is this ok?

[@dragonflyjoyride]

Thanks for the build of the axles. Can the ring gear be put on the right side or left side of the pinion or is it only 1 direction? I have no kit.. yet. Will the axles ever be sold separately? If someone wanted to buy them. Thanks

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

These use the same gears as used in the AR44 Axles, so they can not be switched left to right by design as they are a hypoid gear. All parts will be available separately.

[@dragonflyjoyride]

@@HarleyDesignsInc thank you for the quick response. Nice to know.

[@rcs_rc_az961]

@@HarleyDesignsInc does this also allow the option of od/ud gearing with the available ar44 gears? Also, are the axles and lockers specific to the F10 or are those production hard parts already? Thank you for your time, Ryan.

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

@@rcs_rc_az961 Yes you could use any over or underdrive gear for a AR44 axles. The locker is the same as AR44 as well. The portal gears are the same as Vanquish Portal axles, not the Axial SCX3 or Capra.

[@rcs_rc_az961]

@@HarleyDesignsInc very cool. VP axle shafts and stubs then as well?

[@Sackboy1986]

Are the bevel gear can switch to other side?

[@adamtebben9512]

Question for ya Josh, I assembled the front axle per instructions and everything fits nice but when I got to spin the 12mm hex it’s spins freely one way and not the other. Ideas?

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

That’s the nature of hypoid gears. Put the driveshaft on and it won’t do that. It’s trying to pull the pinion into the case in one direction and push it out in the other.

[@adamtebben9512]

@@HarleyDesignsInc thanks man! Loving the build so far. See ya on Wednesday night!

[@TheAmericanUhate]

Building mine right now and noticed the same and came here to see if I did something wrong already 😂 Glad to see it's all good

[@kraafishjp538]

Whould the Portal box's work on older 10.2 vanguish portal's

[@hotboyracing]

I’m having a problem with my vrd carbon portal build I’m using the black aluminum knuckles with the brass knuckles included in my tof but it keeps looking up as I spin it I’m not sure what I did wrong

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

Did you install the driveshaft yet?

[@hotboyracing]

@@HarleyDesignsInc no I just built the portal boxs my 3rd members showed up today for the aluminum axles I’ll install them onto the axle and see if the alignments of the shafts makes the problem stop

[@hotboyracing]

It fixed the issue it just needed spun a couple of times to get it smoothed out, ran the car this morning at work and this carbon is no joke I haven’t found a line I can’t hit so far

[@allmightygreatone1048]

Will the knuckle screw mount strip out with use.

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

This is something that can happen on any plastic axle if over tightened or removed and replaced many times. However it’s not a common issue.

[@allmightygreatone1048]

@@HarleyDesignsInc thank you. Cool truck you designed. So many innovative ideas. Really enjoy your videos. I learned today not to over tighten.

[@r23g51r]

What shims you use to set the ring and Pinon? Mine has alot of play/slop

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

There are two shims included for the pinion if needed but they aren’t really required.

[@dangood6670]

Im having a clicking noise in my vrd stance and I've done everything i can in the vfd to upgrade it but still hearing a click. ive read it may need shims in the diffs. Do you know what size the shims are? ​@HarleyDesignsInc

[@r23g51r]

​@dangood6670 I believe it was the same as the ones for driveshafts

[@dangood6670]

@@r23g51r ok but since it's an rtr I don't know what size shims to buy

[@r23g51r]

@dangood6670 if josh don't get back to you I'll let you know later I have some at the house

[@JGrav-ko1ey]

Missing the front portal cover in my kit🤬

[@trashypantsyota]

I guess the carrier bearings don't need grease eh?

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

Carrier bearing? Not sure which you mean but I believe I show all gears being greased.

[@trashypantsyota]

The bearings that go on the locker are called carrier bearings in the 1:1 world. I may have missed it but all I saw grease get used on was the gears.

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

@@trashypantsyota Ah yes, I understand now, sometimes it's hard going back and forth between typical RC terms and full-size terms. You could pack those bearings if you wanted. They are just an unshielded version of the other bearings used in the kit though which don't typically get extra lubrication added. Being open, I could see an argument for them needing extra grease/protection but it isn't something that I have done on my rigs in the past.

[@trashypantsyota]

Greasing them isn't extra lube, that's what lubes them from the start. Pop a shield on any other bearing and you'll find lube from the factory, the open bearings just need a smear of grease and they'll live forever.

[@mickd8188]

@@trashypantsyota I can confirm that when I packed mine there was definitely a caramel coloured grease that was pushed through by the blue grease I used... so they are already lubricated but I like to repack mine as you do also.. Cheers

[@christophermears7738]

Why did they decide to go with an open-faced bearing.

[@HarleyDesignsInc]

Because you can’t get a 7x14x3.5 bearing with a seal. So to make it reverse compatible with all the other axle and gear sets it’s was retained that way. It’s the same as any VS4-10, SCX10-2, SCX10-3, Capra, etc.

[@christophermears7738]

@@HarleyDesignsInc thank you good to know I haven't had a chance to build any of those the only actual products that I've owned the ryft which came assembled and the smt10

[@beleg1437]

Anyone else have their portal gears fail?

[@markclausson564]

If you had a version of this with a normal VFD transmission instead of the twin and straight axles instead of the portals I would buy one. Other than that never.