Hi there,

during the past days I have serviced the truggy, did some fine-tuning on the suspension, cleaned everything. Lately i have ripped another plastic spur gear (nr. 3), so I am thinking about the steel spur gears, cos' that's annoying.
After a little tuning and tweaking the truck was running great today. so far, I am quite happy with the car. Overall-quality is good.
What I dont't like is that the hinge pins have kinda poor quality and got bent a couple of times. For a truggy for that much money not ok. I have ordered some 4mm spring steel to make some reliable hinge pins.
I have heard about a couple of broken shock towers, something may not happen in this price range. I have damaged & bent my front shock tower, and fixed it with some 2 component glue and CFK (Uhu Endfest 300, my favourite glue).
Further I have bent a shock rod, might have been bad luck; on the other hand, I can't remember that I had such problems with my hobao.

Another problem might be the tkrbb05114 bearings in the differentials; for my thaste, they are too small, the ones from the rear diff have already been worn out causing some epxensive noise... I am thinking to get ceramic bearings there.

Next investment will be some tapered pistons from competitions suspension. In my last truggy (LRP/ZCar) I had some and was very happy with them.
I have put the tapered side to the top, like that the suspension literally sponged up the bumpy track, still quite stable.

At the moment I am running a x802l tenshock, which got quite hot, more or less. Then I have read to add one or two theeth, and yes, today the motor was definately cooler (21t pinion, 5s, 1750kv tenshock).

I have to check the weight, but it seems that the truggy is pretty light, which is also responsible for the good handling on the track.
florian