bigchang

hi! i just want to know if a completely stock tmaxx can take some jumps like 1-2meters hight???i mean will it broke parts like suspension arms.i hate repairing stuff.
thanks guys!

nicholsm04

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t-maxxs break fairly easy

hotchi1

better stop hatting reparing stuff if u baught a maxx

BaSh_2_tHa_mAxX

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Nice insightful helpful information guys

Ok well if you land right on all fours you will be fine. I bash mine and dont land right pretty often but dont break things the t-maxx never ever gets enough durability credit. I find mine to be the strongest truck ive owned.

allen0622

I agree with bash, you have to land on all fours so your shocks will take the force, but that's not always the easiest thing to do. Most breakage can be attributed to bad driving. Is the jump 1 to 2 meters high? or is that how high the truck will go? You could get pretty high off a 2 meter jump. One other thing that will help alot, do it in the grass or at least land in the grass, it will take alot more force than landing on hard ground. And just to add, the T-maxx is probably least durable monster truck out, but it's not as fragile as some people make it out to be either. Depends what you do with it.

tommythecat

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I have never broken anything on my maxx jumping and landing on all four wheels without being hard on the throttle. I've heard the stock plastic shocks will sometimes blow caps on really big jumps, but I replaced mine before they ever broke on me. The only ways I've broken anything jumping is when I've landed hard on the throttle (twisted output yoke), landed on the tail end (broken bumper and mounts, or when I've totally botched landings and roofed it or cartwheeled.

nicholsm04

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with the maxx... you gotta be careful tho cuz if you make one bad landing.. it can be costly. I never said it was a bad truck.. they just have a chance of breaking if you dont know how to land relitively close to being on all fours.

bighitbiker3

nicholsm04- Sorry for the off topic but you have the collari in your revo?!?!?!?!? holy **** that must be a mother to control.

xtremraptor

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my suggestions if you plan on doing any jumping with a maxx is to get aluminum bulkheads and some RPM or aluminum a-arms and titanium hinge pins. the bulkheads in a t-maxx will explode into pieces with a bad landing. friend of mine went thru 4 sets of rear bulks before he went with the aluminum ones. everything seems fine now.

a-arms are much easier to change than bulks so you could leave the arms stock but i wouldn't leave the bulks. something heavy duty too. like New ERA or ACNCM

these breakages were due to 4 or 5 foot high jumps (how high trucks flys). maxxes are a little weak but they can be made to take it.

if you haven't purchased a truck yet i suggest a REVO or a SAVAGE. either is twice as durable stock

BaSh_2_tHa_mAxX

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I doubt that the maxx is the least durable truck on the market if it is how come it was truck of the year 4 years in a row i seriously doubt that the weakest truck is capable of a highly reputable award that speaks for itself.

hotchi1

alright setlre down people. it is goin to break if u land on like one wheel or sumthin but i just was jumpin myne last night like 15+ fett stait up then on 4 whells some time but mostly 2 wheeles. nothing broke i was amazed. i have one rpm lower and one upper and the rest are proline

maxximum_overdrive

i do alot of jumping..............not real high or anything......maybe three feet, but i hit the little 10" jump at big speeds usually just before it hits seond gear, and i'm getting mad distance, and i've not broken anything jumping. i braoke a rear bulk, but it was my fault, i clipped a fence post at about 35 mph with the left rear wheel. pretty much pulled the back half off. only the chassis brace on the rightside was holding it together. i'm accually pretty impressed with how duarable my maxx has been. i think most of the breakage problems are driver error, i know mine was.

smitty4

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Well I didnt read all posts because they are telling you crap. I jump my truck like 1-1/2 meters high and dont break parts. You break parts when you land on only one wheel or try and do flips but land on the top. That breaks the body posts and the bulkheads. So it all depends on how good you can drive. I ran full throttle into the curb which with a emaxx is about 25 mph. And all I broke was a a-arm and bent a shock. So they are durable. They may not be durable as some other trucks but it they can take a beating.

BaSh_2_tHa_mAxX

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Thank you the 3 above posts back up what i said.

allen0622

It's not the least durable truck, It's the least durable MT. I agree, it can take decent jumps if you land on all fours, but that doesn't mean nothing will break 100% of the time because you can land a jump. mine is stock and I've made 6ft. jumps no problem, but , in reality who is going to land every jump they make perfectly? And btw, I have broken arms at the pin from perfectly landed jumps before. Sometimes with the Maxx you catch it on a sweet spot that puts stress on just the right area and "pop",. I'm sure most maxx owners have had that time when they hit something, and not all that hard had something break to their amazement. There is no perfect driving in bashing. The Maxx was "readers choice" 4 times in a row, it was truck of the year once in 2003 when it came RTR with the 2.5 motor. Also, those awards are handed out by RCCA, I don't know if any of you actually read it but they are definitely on the Traxxas jock, and it's tough sometimes to get an unbiased opinion. That's not saying much for the design I would say. Looks like the motor is what is really getting all the awards. The design is dated and weak in comparison to everything else that has come out since. And if it was so great why not just beef it up and fix the weak points of the design, instead of starting from scratch and coming up with an entirely new design, the Revo?
If the t-maxx is the only truck you've ever owned, or if you haven't even seen some of the sick stuff people do with their stock savage or Revo it makes it very hard to make an unbiased opinion yourself. I'm not saying the T-Maxx can't do some of that stuff, but the odds are stacked against it on how long it will survive. Especially on race day the people waiting in line at the parts desk were always 75% Maxx guys, I know because I was in line with them. Again I must say I love my maxx I know it inside and out and I don't plan to ever sell it. But my new Revo is one hell of a truck. Funny, it used to be Savage vs. Maxx guys bickering all the time, and now it's T-Maxx against Revo guys. I like to think I'm both and I'm giving truthful/factual information based on my observations and experience.

S-MAXXwaterboy

ok guys...the maxx is awesome....really...its fun...its better at some things than the savage even...even though the savage is awesom....this is my stock stadium maxx...getting some air at the park....


http://www.rcpics.net/view_single.php?medid=49034

that was when it was completely stock except for a skidplate....so it is okay isnt it???? [:-] [>:]

jadster

well i hardly have any problems with my t maxx durability wise when it was stock, except when i landed a 4ft jump on 1 wheel all i did was snap a a arm by the pin and snap a screw off in the bulk, now i got alu front bulk and alu lower arms rpm upper and alu skids and the only thing ive dmaged in about 6 months of pretty hard bashing was i bent my skids (bend back easy) so the savage and revo must be indestructable if they can beat that personaly i think its mainly down to the driver, and traxxas brought out the REVO because the t maxx had been out for ages (they upgraded it 1s already with the 2.5 so why would they do it again?)

bigchang

Maybe traxxas company make tmaxx less durable so you will buy alot of replacement parts

hotchi1

doubt ti cause that would make less people buy the trucks. also they would get there good reputation messed u because they dont warrenty broken partsand they would not replace the prts so people would get made and sell it and get a savage

liv4bk

I think TRAXXAS puts out a good truck for the money. I don’t intentionally “Bash� my truck so I have no idea what kind of real abuse it can take. What I do know is the track I race at puts me 3-4 feet in the air every weekend and I don’t break much. I started with Emaxx. I got my buddy started and his first was a Savage 21. So then I needed gas. I got the Sportmax and put the emax 4 wheel drive on it. My buddy has spent years now replacing every piece on his truck. As they break he buys the hopped up replacement. The bottom line is my Sportmax with single speed 4 wheel drive out performs his Savage in all but one aspect. The Sportmax is faster off the line and takes the corners better than his Savage. The only parts I replaced are the spur gear and the body mounts. I melted the spur because of the slipper and if you land upside down hard enough the body mounts tend to break. I didn’t oil the engine one winter so I had to replace it as well. The savage on the other hand has never gone home from a race in one piece. Even his super duper hopped up modified replacement parts break. I’m still running the stock out of the box stuff. The one thing I have to give the savage is its ability to walk all over me. If the savage is headed my way all I can do is slam on the breaks, take a nose dive and let him step over me. Of course he usually breaks something so I give it the gas, stick my nose back up in the air and trot right by him. Because of my experience with the TRAXXAS product I just bought the REVO. I don’t think they changed the design of the truck because the MAXX was not good but because it was so good. They are in business to sell trucks and they needed some reason for their customers to buy a new truck just like replacing your family car every 5 years. Changing the body style doesn’t mean anything in RC Monster Trucks, it’s all in the mechanics. Let’s see if the REVO will live up to the MAXX reputation. Oh. I’m just another guy with no affiliation with anything. This is just my personal opinion.

savvy-racer

hey liv4bk, thats bunch of bull craps because savage doesn't break as easy as tmaxx or any other traxxas's truck. my savage will break your smaxx in half if your smaxx run head on to my savage.

BTW, if you afraid your tmaxx will break when jumping go buy RPM a arms and bulkhead. thats about it.

liv4bk

I think if you read my comments that was the only thing the Savage had over me. It would eat me alive in a bashing contest. That's why I duck when one's coming at me. What can I say if you want to bash buy a Savage, if you want to race buy a TRAXXAS. Yes if a Savage broadsides you at 30 miles an hour your going to have damage. Unfotunately I'm seeing this more and more at the track. I think ROAR should make a new class called Demolition Derby for all those that want to win by destroying everything around them. All I'm saying is under normal racing conditions by the time the Savage gets up to speed it's weight won't let it make the corners without bashing into what ever is in it's way thus breaking parts on both sides. The TRAXXAS is lighter, faster off the line and more manuverable. If you can stay out of the way of a Savage you can beat it. To answer the little question with my personal opinion most of the damage done on my TRAXXAS is from other trucks bashing it not from normal racing and jumping. I don't do rock climbing so I don't know how it performs there. I'm a dirt tracker. I love taking home the trophy for fastest times around the track. I spend race days tuning the engine for weather conditions and the suspension/slipper for track conditions. By the time I reach the main I'm ready to race. If I had to spend qualifying replacing broken parts I wouldn't be in the hobby.

savvy-racer

oh my bad i thought you said that savage break easiely, anyway lighter truck doesn't mean that it will be faster off the line. you will be needed some kinda weight so you can have tractions to make your truck faster off line. so all in all i think the savage is a good racer too if you do it right.