Creality Official Direct Drive Extruder Upgrade Kit for Ender-3, Ender 3 Pro, Ender 3 V2 3D Printer

The Creality Official Direct Drive Extruder Upgrade Kit is an excellent enhancement for anyone using an Ender-3, Ender-3 Pro, or Ender-3 V2. Installation was straightforward with a clean design and clear instructions — it took me less than an hour to fit it, and everything aligned perfectly without modification. Once installed, the difference in print performance was immediate. Filament retraction and extrusion became smoother, and stringing was noticeably reduced. It’s especially effective for flexible materials like TPU, which feed much more reliably through this direct-drive setup compared to the standard Bowden extruder. The components feel sturdy and well-machined, with good tension on the gears and a solid mounting bracket. Being an official Creality product, all parts fit seamlessly and maintain the printer’s rigidity. Overall, this upgrade is absolutely worth it if you want improved printing consistency, smoother extrusion, and better control over fine details. It’s a great quality-of-life improvement for any serious Ender user.

Nice bit of kit. Very well made. And well worth buying as an upgrade to your printer. I got this with other bits to upgrade the printer and best thing I did. My only issue with it which I had to do. Is where filament gone in to it i had to fit a bow tube fitting to it so I drilled it and taped a tread to hold bow tube to let filament go in with very little drag. As it was designed to be fed in from top but my printer sits on shelf in office and filament sits to lef too printer in a dryer and feeds from there so due to the angle it kept braking or get stuck as in was going in to hot end. Also what was nice is the cabling is very neat with it ready to go so all you got to do is run it to the board inside and with instruction which are english it is nice and easy to fit

Would get 5* but I was quite disappointed by the description saying "all metal" and I find the drive feed spring arm is plastic (like the original - which mine snapped on before). Luckily, I could take my upgraded metal one off my old extruder and put it on this one to replace it though I did have to "sand" a little of the plastic bridge down to accommodate the screw for the spring (as the plastic one doesn't use a screw for the spring) so out of the box I am having to customise it a bit. However, now it is on, and wired up, worked first time with just a re-leveling of the bed and already printing clean models and definitely showing an improvement already on my old bowden system (not got anymore z shifting and super clean walls). May need to design and print some cable holders and rethink my filament runout sensor positioning but that is part of the fun of 3D printing. Definitely worth the upgrade as not expensive, just be prepared for the plastic parts that are on it and consider upgrading them now before they cause you issues down the line.

Bought this to upgrade my ender 3 max which already had direct drive but cost me 40mm of X axis because of my design. You do lose some Z height and if you are using this on a max variant you will lose the 2nd part cooling fan also, but given how well my Ender 5 Plus prints with just 1 part cooling fan I didn't mind trading that for the 40mm reclaim on the X axis. Installation is easy if you are comfortable with the components of 3D printers and took me <30 minutes which included upgrading the small PTFE tube between the stepper motor and extruder to Capricorn tube. I also had to reuse my old hot end cables as this is suitable for the Ender 3 / Pro / V2 which means the wires are not long enough for my printer. Because I already had direct drive I didn't need to alter most of my print settings and my prints are exactly the same as they were before which means this is working brilliantly. I tuned my retractions a little more given the rigidity upgrade so now I have 0.6mm @ 40 mm/s which helped reduce stringing to nearly 0. My biggest issue with this is the plastic drive feed used on the stepper motor. All metal to me means this should be the upgraded metal version too. I did reuse my old drive feed but I had to sand the connector that holds the stepper motor to the extruder plate to make this fit. This is not really a required thing to do but it gives me peace of mind that the drive feed mechanism won't break or split as the plastic drive feeds tend to do that after a while. I would still recommend this to anyone wanting to move from a bowden setup to direct drive as this is a very quick and cheap upgrade which will help improve print quality almost immediately when you adjust your print settings.

This is a great direct drive upgrade. Really like how it came, everything was perfect and after fitting to my ender 3 is working a treat. Worth upgrading to a dual z axis drive at the same time due to the added weight of the stepper motor, I did both at the same time. Highly recommended upgrade to an ender 3 or 3 pro.

Great upgrade for my Geeetech A20! Had to do some adapting but had great fun installing it and engineering around the small differences to the Ender printer. Love it!

Motor stop working after first print

I wanted to give 4 1/2 stars . Good drive came already put together, fitted within 30-40 mins all worked also fitted my BL Touch , think it took longer to get the nozzle height right than it took to install the thing . I would of liked the motor to be the other way round so that i can see the filament going through the extruder also the extruder is plastic and not metal so it wont last long until it breaks just hope the metal one i was using will fit . It is heavier so i held off buying this upgrade until i fitted a dual z rod kit . On the whole i am pleased with it and so far the few prints i have done have come out well ( dont forget to change your esteps )...UPDATE after a few days and constantly adjusting settings to make better with not much success (layer lines to name one ) found eventually that the cog wheel centre hole of the extruder was not centred ,(outer was good )so prints were extruding ok then under extruding .

Parfait et peu cher pour les filaments ordinaires

Este producto es ideal si quieres pasarte a materiales mas corrosivos para en Nozzle de tu impresora, digamos que endureces mas y le da mas aguante al desgaste de materiales que mas dañan los Nozzles de tu impresora a la hora de usar materiales como el ABS, PETG, o similares en los que usas myor temperatura. Ahora bien, yo lo e comprado en oferta por 29,56€ ya que anda sobre los 34 o 37 euros de normal y me parece muy caro para el poco material que se aporta, son Nozzles de unas medidas minusculas, entiendo que el material sea mas caro, pero dudo que sea tan caro y mas procediendo de Chinatown , tal vez en la web oficial esté mas barato, recomiendo mirar antes en su web. Luego quiero aportar un poco de mierda sobre Amazon, el repartidor no a marcado en el articulo como entregado, se lo echó en el patio de mi vecino sin ni llamar a la puerta, me enteré que estaba en su casa por que me llamó el, y por suerte vivimos en un chalet a conjunto, si no... se lo a regalado a otra persona y me quedo con un problema de a ver quien lo tiene y quien se hace responsable de la perdida, por lo cual me voy a dar de baja del Prime ahora mismo.

Il kit di aggiornamento estrusore Direct Drive per la Ender-3 è una bomba! L’ho installato in meno di un’ora (le istruzioni sono chiare), e la differenza si nota subito. Ora posso stampare materiali flessibili come TPU senza problemi. La qualità di stampa è migliorata, e l’alimentazione del filamento è più precisa. L’unico lato negativo è che aggiunge un po’ di peso all’asse X, quindi meglio regolare bene le impostazioni di velocità. Se vuoi migliorare la tua Ender-3, te lo consiglio assolutamente!

En remplacement de la tête d'origine. Relativement rapide à monter. Mon Ender 3, est à nouveau fonctionnelle.

Aufgrund eines Defekts am Gewinde der Düse meines bisherigen Extruders war ein Austausch erforderlich. Im Zuge dessen wurde eine verbesserte Variante in Betracht gezogen. Die resultierende Druckqualität konnte deutlich optimiert werden.