gooba

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Run it with slop. Loose fitting AE cars are normal and fast

Barge

These statements are silly

Skeeter36

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Sean is right... the more you tighten the kit standoff the more it will crush the plastic and cause it to be tight like it is in the vid. The FT however will not crush so it lets the shock be free and have play like it should. With his kit ones I guarantee that when you fully compress that side and try and wiggle or spin the shock it is completely stuck and thats not good and WILL cause your car to behave strangely. Put the FT standoffs on and snug the nut down and make sure the shock is free when fully compressed, then your cars suspension will be performing as it was designed. Hope this helps you.

QDRHRSE

iTrader: (515)

I guess I'm not sure what we're calling slop. The shock is supposed to sort of swivel on the shock bushing ball. Mine move but do not really have any slop. If the movement is the issue then don't worry about it. They are not supposed to fixed in place at the top.

Skeeter36

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He is referring to the movement fore and aft. (forwards and backwards) as far as I can tell because I didnt see it moving up and down much which it shouldnt.

iScream

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I got some Avid bearings for my B5M today. Before I do something stupid and ruin these things should I buy new crush washers for the front hubs? I'm running one piece titanium front axles and it looks like they may be machined so that they will prevent deforming the bearings when the screw is tightened. But I'm not completely sure.

Wildcat1971

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lol, I am about to get some Ti axles myself. and i plan to replace my crush tube. My crush tubes are originals from a year ago and I am told they were at some point updated. the are like $2, so why not. cheap compared to the rest of the car, lol

Cridd

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Yep, little 15 second lap, small venue, a little trash talk, good times. Sometimes I get down to Bakersfield for Rainman's and even less to your neck of the woods. Where do you race?

aeRayls

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You can get another crush tube if you like, no biggie since they are very cheap. However, the real problem is the inserts themselves. You must glue them in!! When you glue them have the bearings and axle ready to put in so that the glue dries with them all lined up.

JeepnMike

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Are you selling all of your 2.4's and not planning on running them for mod? I am still beating this one up deciding on which tire / wheel I want to go with in my new buggy. From what I can tell, there was a few folks griping about the glue coming up, which to me sounds more like a glue / operator problem. If 2.4" is better overall (for mod) and is likely the direction all will be headed after ROAR approves them, why not jump on the bandwagon now? I am obviously not racing in any ROAR events, I just want to get the best and not yesterday's news.

I can see I am going to have to re-learn how to glue tires (the right and clean way). All of my 1/8 scale stuff has been pre-mounts.

Thanks for your help!

iScream

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I bought my kit from the LHS in mid December but I'm not sure when it was actually manufactured. I guess I might as well replace the crush tubes when I install the bearings.

Just to be sure it's clear, I wasn't running the one piece axles when my bearings got crunchy. I noticed the bearings when I was installing the axles.

iScream

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Thanks. After doing a little searching in the thread, I think I'm gonna pick up the hard steering block and insert set then glue in the inserts. I was really happy with the handling of my car on our track Sunday so losing the ability to adjust shouldn't be an issue.

aeRayls

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It has been noted by a few of our other team drivers that the hard steering blocks somehow magnify the problem. I would use the stock steering blocks and inserts OR the stock blocks with the hard inserts.

Jason Baliban

I can echo this finding. I tried the same thing and my bearings got crunchy extremely fast. Perhaps even more telling is that when i broke one of the blocks and went back to my older blocks with the same bearings, the bearings felt better. When i say old, i mean old, you could see the inserts just moving around in the blocks.

jB

Peter Martin

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These will help tremendously.

Made for this type of application.

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