A few updates, I swapped out my Hitec servo (to put in another rig) with a Promodeler 470, I'm liking it so far, a bit more power than the 7950 and its also quiet.
Its a tall servo so I needed the use the thicker end of the stock servo spacer along with four 1/8" spacers, I suppose a different servo horn might change this spacing, but without the 1/8" spacers the panhard bar hits the servo horn limiting travel a ton.
I installed the JunFac 20* C-hubs and knuckles, I'm liking them so far, it might just be my imagination but I feel like the side of the tire is able to grab hold of the rocks a lot better at this angle. Turning radius also seems a bit improved when on a loose surface but again I may be wearing rose tinted glasses. Even with my front coilovers outboarded I still clear the tires with these 20* C-hubs, they clear the links too.
I was able to use the Brass C-hub bushings no problem, others mentioned the fit was too tight but if anything mine were on the loose side.
I had to clock the axle panhard mount backwards a hole to keep the links from hitting it
I installed 2 more light buckets using
RC4WD Squadron lights stripped down and mounted inside.
I had picked up what I thought was a bargain for the
Gmade light buckets, I just assumed this light bar/buckets were separate pieces I could take off, well no they are are molded into one piece. But I was able to cut them off and drill out a hole to mount them like the stock ones luckily. Those buckets also used a slightly different lense guard than stock, but I found that it looked better if the outer headlight looked a bit different than the inner fog lights so that wasn't an issue.
Definitely one of my brightest setups now, you really dont want to be standing in front of it or you get dazzled
I also dropped my gearing from a 12T to a 9T (HH crawlmasster 550 10T motor) I felt like before I had two high gears but with the 9T I really, really like it now "thumbsup". Low gear is truly a low gear now and high gear is still slow enough to crawl with but has a bit of extra wheelspeed when I might need it and it should keep me from wanting to bash it. I used to struggle to tell the difference between high and low gear, now I can easily tell the difference.
I put this in the GOM (coming soon) thread but I'll stick it here too, Thanks goes to thewildblue77 for pressing JunFac to come up with this:
New set screws from Junfac....
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This is meant to beef up the CVA front axles and to prevent the pin from snapping or slipping out of place, the set screw will definitely be more secure than just using the retaining ring.
I did some digging and found that I had a
Junfac drive shaft rebuild kit J90131
that shares the very same inner barrel with the set screw that thewildblue77 had sent to him by JunFac.
I've since installed these and they've been working flawlessly