BKoz559

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even if you're not there to skate. But, apparently that environment is rough on RC cars; even a Savage. I was running for a good 20 minutes before this happened. The shock shaft sheared right at the rod end. As long as I'm replacing parts, I guess it's time to rebuild all the shocks and fill 'em up with fresh oil. I'm not sure what's in there now, but shouldn't 30wt be fine and not bottom out too much? I'm not jumping this thing 15 feet in the air, but it catches a good 3-5 feet at times. I was thinking of buying a new bottle of 35wt but 30 is the heaviest Ihave on hand.

BKoz559

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Also, will a truggy body match up well enough for a Savage XL?  I think I may try one when this Nissan lid gets thrashed.

phmaximus

thats impressive... its strange it dident bend the shaft, with any luck it was just a freak thing

what about upgrading the shafts to the tiN shafts?

Haddi Taha

why did hpi put plastic shock bodies on it? I don't know if a truggy shell will fit on it, maybe if you have a buddy with a truggy you can see or go to the lhs and see if they have one that fits. Bashing on concrete/asphalt is pretty hard on any car. I always try to do jumps on grass or sand, make a pretty big difference imo.

BKoz559

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I wish it had aluminum bodies in stock form but, I guess that would have been too easy. I did a quick search for new shock shafts but didn't notice titanium nitride variants. I'll keep searching

I did figure that something was going to break eventually, just not this part. I thought a hub would snap at the camber link. I heard the chassis slap a few times but I believe Iwas still driving on the conservative side. Iwas tempted to try backflips but I also didn't want to completely destroy the truck. I'll look into tiN shafts; stock steel are about $15 for a set of 4.

Is a regular 2oz bottle enough to fill all the shocks?

phmaximus

Sure is mate

DieHarder

That's all it took me. I still had half a bottle left acually. Seems like I shouldn't of had any left.[&:]

BKoz559

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Today I needed a couple of hours to "escape" and RC seemed like the right thing to do.  The Flux is still on the bench for now so I opted to use my SC10RS.  It did a lot better out there than I anticipated.  The body wants to parachute a lot which caused some problems on a few occasions.  Mostly it would cause the truck to nose up and then land vertically on the rear bumper.  All in all it was a fun day and the local skaters were diggin' the RC action.  I cracked the rear bumper but everything else held up.

I'm going to have to bring a camera next time because I managed to successfully run the truck upside down inside of "the dome."  It's a half sphere at the end of a trench and if done correctly, you can do full loops.  It should make for good YouTube fodder.

Haddi Taha

Nice, The SC body probably copted most of the abuse. A video will be awesome .
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