Slash65

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As a famous man once said DOH!

I guess it was just cracked when I did it the first time, now it seems to have been helped along...

turb06le240

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cant be with out an alloy top plate, there was one in the for sale section last week, the ofna version, veddy nice and they wanted short money for it, almost pm'ed for a spare, but mine isnt going to break and I have too much stuff so I decided not...

turb06le240

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All of his parts will be in Tuesday so Ill post them on here and send you a pm with them, Ill take pics and give step by steps....

Slash65

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I appreciate it, after today's mishap, I have done a complete teardown, so I will wait to see that the build will take...

turb06le240

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It takes about 20 minutes and costs around $40, do you already have bearings on your stock steering posts? Its a good time to get rid of the brass bushings.. I used my jet milling machine to machine my parts out for the bearings, but this one I will use a drill because I know not everyone has a milling machine in there garage...

Slash65

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I have not done it yet...

But since this is the first real tear-sown, no time like the present!

Erik in sac

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Order the T-Bone racing front bumper as talked about a few pages back. it makes this truck sooooooo much more durable. great mod

AL3xGR

What runtimes do you get with the Novak 4.5T 550 motor?(and what batteries do you have?)

Slash65

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I really can't say what the run times are. Every time I have taken it out, it has broke.

I am running nickel packs at the moment.

AL3xGR

Anyone with a Lipo?

Slash65

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I was planning on getting both, WIll hopefully be able to do that shortly, since my unemployment is coming to an end...

What does everyone use for cleaning the plastic parts? I have been using armor-all and it cleans quite nicely.

What are good all around diff weights? I with thinking of going 5/5/2. Any other recommendations?

Erik in sac

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I used to get about 25-30min of track time with the castle sct 3800 system and swapping to the mmp/ 4.5t 550 I get about 1/2 that with a 5000mAh 40C gens ace. I'm gonna get a higher C pack eventually, probably more capacity too since the 4.5 is an 890watt motor.

Yosh70

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Yea I got that for the TT and as long as you hit it straight on or close to it, I imagine it helps minimize the damage pretty good.

Of course the 1st curb the TT hits is at an angle and altho nothing broke, the infamous upper hinge pin came out with a couple of other pieces.

At least the bumper didn't get damaged.

turb06le240

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Do you like the 550 size motor in the TT? I tryed my tekin sc4x 5.5 motor and it was actually slower than my ballistic 6.5 {around the track}, even after playing with the gearing.
WIth the tt being so light I think the 540 motors do it with out overdoing it.... Although I am tempted to try a 550 ballistic 8.5 to see how that performs...

AL3xGR

Also after swapping from a KD36 7L motor to the Novak 4.5T 550 my temps were of course lower but runtime and top speed also reduced.Runtime from 25min to 12min(but went from 3s to 2s...) and top speed is about the same when I use 26/42 gearing.(from 17/42) But I like acceleration - I will increase timing one level in order to increase rpm - I don't have any problem if the torque goes down a bit.

Any ideas about how can I increase on-power steering? Maybe the front diff from 3k oil should go to 7k?