Originally Posted by mcdonaldsracing

I've had all sorts of problems with mine. I've had the truck for about 3 weeks and I've only been able to run it about 1 1/2 hrs b/c it's been broken the whole time. It started with a bum 5700kv motor from castle(don't even get me started on their products!), which for about 4 days I was thinking was a slipper clutch issue. Then once I replaced the motor with a 4800kv excelorin, I stripped the idler gear after about 30 min of runtime. Well, I had a buddy that gave me his out of his spare kit so I could run in our first points series race at CapeFear raceway in NC last weekend and I ended up breaking an arm on my second practice lap. After the race, I replaced all the arms with RPM's from the T4 and GT2, and then I had a sun gear strip in the diff within the first 20 min of getting it back in running condition. I've always been an AE fan, but this thing has given me nothing but problems from the minute I opened the box(I too had to break the dremel out to fix a steering bellcrank clearance issue after completing about the 3rd step in the instructions). I guess I should have waited to buy about the 2nd or 3rd edition of this truck so they could have time to work out all the bugs