mustangkillaz

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Now to just get it to go forward...haha. you guys flip the diffs around?

Jumbo_Jaque

[QUOTE=AJrollin;15391435]Just in case it's not totally obvious - I got caught out with this - you'll also need to replace the existing 22mm length screws for longer ones (the ones for the shock stand-offs) with the added thickness. I found some spare 2mm washers and stacked them together, looking forward to mounting the shocks forward. Then at the last minute, noticed there wasn't enough thread with the kit 22mm screws to get the lock-nut on fully. (sad trombone).

bighurt98

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I shimmed 3mm forward. Have to change main screws to be longer to compensate for the extra spacing.

JRSlash

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What's the benefit of spacing the front tower?

stinger84

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czrlaker

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Exact same

raved007

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To make vertical the shocks instead angle. I installed mine and feel better for jump compare without spacer in shock tower.

Jumbo_Jaque

Hey guys - not sure how I did it, but I found that both of the steering posts have broken right at the base of them - the part on the actual post right above the hex. Not sure how it may have happened - I've had a few solid crashes, but for the most part, I've never noticed an issue. Then today, I was driving and noticed that I lost steering all of a sudden - it would just lazily steer to the point that I couldn't round corners anymore. I then discovered the broken steering posts after that while checking over the car.

Anyone else have this happen to them? I'd think that rather than both of them failing simultaneously, one probably broke and just overloaded the other one until it finally failed eventually. I'm getting new steering posts from my LHS tomorrow, but didn't know if there were any tips to prevent it from happening again (aside from not crashing - which if that's the case, I may just buy 2 sets tomorrow.)

Cheers.

jpas

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Jumbo_Jaque

Yes - it's the screws from the kit. Looks like those are only 8mm. You got me thinking if longer screws might reinforce that a bit better though.

raved007

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[QUOTE=Jumbo_Jaque;15401585]Hey guys - not sure how I did it, but I found that both of the steering posts have broken right at the base of them - the part on the actual post right above the hex. Not sure how it may have happened - I've had a few solid crashes, but for the most part, I've never noticed an issue. Then today, I was driving and noticed that I lost steering all of a sudden - it would just lazily steer to the point that I couldn't round corners anymore. I then discovered the broken steering posts after that while checking over the car.

Anyone else have this happen to them? I'd think that rather than both of them failing simultaneously, one probably broke and just overloaded the other one until it finally failed eventually. I'm getting new steering posts from my LHS tomorrow, but didn't know if there were any tips to prevent it from happening again (aside from not crashing - which if that's the case, I may just buy 2 sets tomorrow.)

Cheers.[/QUOTE
It happened to me but i put longer screws and it works. Or buy D413 top brace from schelle only 8 bucks and cut.
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kcooper273

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I also broke one as well, +1 for using longer screws.

AJrollin

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Same here, broke one, when I took the post out the first thing I noticed was the screw is to short...longer screw fixes issue. Wondering if you were to drill a hole all the way through the post and then use a long bolt to go all the way through with a nut at the top, probably over thinking it but thought it was worth a mention.

Jumbo_Jaque

I just picked up a new set of steering posts. Anyone know what the orange washers are for (or were they for the D413)? https://hbracing.com/en/cars/spare-p...-post-2pcs-en/

Also, just tried fitting a 12mm screw to it, unmounted. With the screw in as far as it'll go, there's about a 3-4mm gap. Not sure that the chassis would fill in that gap, so I'm thinking that a 10mm screw would be the max length to use as the bottom screws. Still, that's 2mm more than what the kits starts with, so will give it a go.

On a side note, it was pretty funny when word got out in the pits that an HB broke. Had a few people come up to me just wanting to see it - like they couldn't believe it.

raved007

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The orange washer if you use TOP BRACE from D413 otherwise you don't need the orange washer if you want to use the steering post brace.