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Old 05-25-2014, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Raman
Do any of you trim the axles on your mini. I keep breaking the front right steering knuckle. While it's clear that the plastic is brittle, I am pretty sure the thread that is sticking out past the wheel nut is not helping either.
Ram, when our lead driver first started running the m05 he was breaking the front knuckles a lot until we upgraded to the aluminum knuckles and this solved the problem, I was thinking that trimming them would solve the problem, but it just seems that at that point on the chassis that the stress is extreme when contact is made in the front wheel area
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