Dual new .4's in the garage today. They were supposed to get dirty today but rained out...
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Here's my rig all wired up w/ two packs run through it.

You people with your nice clean indoor tracks drive me crazy. If mine hits the track for two seconds it looks like a orange dirt bomb went off on it.

LOL yep - my track is hard-packed damp med/high bite clay. Love it! In all fairness, I did wipe it down for the pics

All wired up. Minus battery connector. Waiting on new dean's.

whats everyone doing for the loose shock collars
any fix or don't they move once you got the springs on

Mine honestly were about as loose or tight as every TLR 8ight I've built. Definitely no need for concern on mine. The fronts were borderline too tight on mine though.

My plan is to buy a plastic set of collars to lock against the aluminum ones. I can turn my rear collars with the tip of my pinky. Minimum effort

a fellow driver told me he thinks its the collars itself. more so the groove that the oring sits in, that it machined deeper than the fronts. now I know this sound crazy since its the same part # as the fronts, but maybe the rears are from a different batch than the fronts. I didn't have a chance to do this yet but I'm goin to take one off the front and try it on the rear. if it fits snug then its the collar. also what this same person did was take a set from his .3 and they fit snug.

From what we can tell this is the case. A batch of collars seems to have the o-ring groove cut a little too deep. For a quick fix to get up and running, I suggest running the loose ones in the front as the springs are always in contact with the collars, that little bit of pressure will help the collars not move very much during running. I know others have found larger o-rings, double nutted the collar with a plastic one, or happened to have an old collar that they used. For a permanent solution please contact customer service and they'll get you sorted out.

Granted I only ran the car twice, it just didn't seem like an issue to me. They're definitely a little loose, but the spring tension seemed to hold them where they were.

I found some 1/16" o rings part 41-0018 at the local hardware store that worked great for me. Otherwise Tekno will take care of you. I was one of the unlucky few with a defective motor mount but they had a new one shipped asap. Haven't heard much more of this issue in the second batch of buggies.

I would rethink the deans connector personally. There are much better options. Traxxas, ec5, xt60 xt90's

Yeah, i have had issues with deans plugs. I use Castle 6.5mm bullets on my 1/8 builds.

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+1 on avoiding the Deans.

EC5's or XT60/XT90.