So I've played with my bomber for over two years now. It has been an awesome truck. I've had it on several camping trips, local goof off spots and treated it like a short course truck on my back yard track.
Lately she has been showing her age. The axle C's have finally given up the ghost (VP scale that the threads finally stripped completely out of) . A couple months ago the diff locker took out and axle shaft tang but I was able to have my welder at work put material back on and then I ground the flats back on. The VP knuckles have severe play in both the bearing pockets and in the steering pivot points (brass inserts from super shafty). I've been through a lot of rear shafts after missed jumps or bad tumbles. The housings on both the front and rear axle are still the original big bearing housings I bought from Dlux with beef tube (aluminum) front and rear. I managed to break a incision CVD and swapped to axial universals only to break the opposite side so now the truck has one cvd and one universal in the front axle.
The rest of the drive train has been good for at least a year after I did some internal work to the trans. The slipper clutch stays pretty consistent until it gets so hot it stinks (not a normal thing). The motor is one I pulled from my Yeti several years ago and has been a great power plant.
The esc is a leftover side winder 3 that refuses to die. The servo is and old 1283 savox with an internal break inside the case but the gears refuse to give up. I've had several receivers in it because I can't decide if I want to toss my old spektrum dx3 or keep it around for the kid. But the new futaba 4px has been a real nice upgrade. Still rocking my original castle BEC after 2+ years as well.
The cage on the truck has never broken despite some 20' plus double jumps. The Proline slash shocks have been good as well. Those get a tear down every few hours to make sure the sand/grit from my back yard track don't kill them. I've only seen some slight discoloring of the gold shafts and a little paint flaking off the fancy springs.
Many sets of wheels/tires, one non-factory body. Lots of fun, lots of jumps, lots of my Aussie shepherd chasing it.
But she's old. I'm looking at building a pair of "high quality" metal housing axles right now. The 1808's are out of the question, some of the others are questionable quality, VP doesn't look bad. But it is all the other stuff that adds up. Even if I buy good metal housings I still have to buy C's and knuckles.
Wondering if i shouldn't concentrate more on scale stuff and leave the bashing fun to the SC truck!
Lately she has been showing her age. The axle C's have finally given up the ghost (VP scale that the threads finally stripped completely out of) . A couple months ago the diff locker took out and axle shaft tang but I was able to have my welder at work put material back on and then I ground the flats back on. The VP knuckles have severe play in both the bearing pockets and in the steering pivot points (brass inserts from super shafty). I've been through a lot of rear shafts after missed jumps or bad tumbles. The housings on both the front and rear axle are still the original big bearing housings I bought from Dlux with beef tube (aluminum) front and rear. I managed to break a incision CVD and swapped to axial universals only to break the opposite side so now the truck has one cvd and one universal in the front axle.
The rest of the drive train has been good for at least a year after I did some internal work to the trans. The slipper clutch stays pretty consistent until it gets so hot it stinks (not a normal thing). The motor is one I pulled from my Yeti several years ago and has been a great power plant.
The esc is a leftover side winder 3 that refuses to die. The servo is and old 1283 savox with an internal break inside the case but the gears refuse to give up. I've had several receivers in it because I can't decide if I want to toss my old spektrum dx3 or keep it around for the kid. But the new futaba 4px has been a real nice upgrade. Still rocking my original castle BEC after 2+ years as well.
The cage on the truck has never broken despite some 20' plus double jumps. The Proline slash shocks have been good as well. Those get a tear down every few hours to make sure the sand/grit from my back yard track don't kill them. I've only seen some slight discoloring of the gold shafts and a little paint flaking off the fancy springs.
Many sets of wheels/tires, one non-factory body. Lots of fun, lots of jumps, lots of my Aussie shepherd chasing it.
But she's old. I'm looking at building a pair of "high quality" metal housing axles right now. The 1808's are out of the question, some of the others are questionable quality, VP doesn't look bad. But it is all the other stuff that adds up. Even if I buy good metal housings I still have to buy C's and knuckles.
Wondering if i shouldn't concentrate more on scale stuff and leave the bashing fun to the SC truck!
