Originally Posted by
oitz
Started my build tonight. A couple of notes:
1. I wish the shock trees where harder plastic as the shock mounts dig into the channel which is supposed to hold them while you tighten the nuts on the back.
You can get around this by using the shock nyloc nut to back it up while tightening instead of relying on the plastic channel.
The upper shock bushings are way too sloppy though. Also I noticed the springs, like every other coil spring, aren't perfectly straight and they can rub slightly on the shock body. This will only get worse as the piston and ID of the shock wear.
2. I am not sure if my 5 mm nut driver shrunk, but I had to use a 7/32 nut driver to tighten all of the 5 mm nuts. (try to figure that one out)
No issues with my little traxxas cross wrench. (5.5mm?) It would be amusing to watch someone try and assemble it with the stupid kit wrench supplied by AE.
