Orange nail polish! I like that idea.

Topdecks shouldn't be sealed. Only the chassis and shocktowers on offroad buggies.

The only way to achieve zero rebound, is to unscrew the bottom cap 3 turns and move the shaft down until the O ring comes out a little and starts too leak oil. I rebuilded my shocks yesterday, and I couldn't get less than 75% rebound with swollen bladders. When my bladders were still new, I could get around 50% rebound. I'll take them out after Q1 or Q2 and see if there's a difference.

I'll be racing my first race of the indoor season on sunday with the T4 on carpet and I have build my shocks with 10% rebound and 350 oil. The foams are still in the shocks. Forgot to take them on when I rebuilded them after testing.

I have had an idea about a 'cure' for the bumper brace not touching the bulkheads.

I have ordered a second top bumper brace and will attempt to mount it upside down, sandwiched on top of the original.

I will let you all know how it goes.

I will release T-Shox in a short version which will fit the T4 perfectly very soon.
True Zero rebound, easy and they dont change during runs. You will love them if you get em

Yea, I saw them on a friend his BD-7 and they looked good! I wonder what the price will be and how they'll perform

Hi,

I wonder if it's a good thing to have the top bumper to touch the bulkheads?
I have a T4 now and on my BD5 the bumper didn't touch any bulkheads and there was no worry.
before my T4 I had T3 2012 with the top bumper touching the bulkheads and during a not very hard crash, the topdeck broke.
Maybe on my BD5 the main chassis never broke but was tweaked?
I don't know what is the best, to touch or not the bulkheads?

That has never worked for me... maybe my method is wrong, but it always trickles about an inch and then beads up again. Maybe Im not using the right CA.

Anyway, I just cut a short piece of the thin plastic tubing that comes with most CA... let the CA flow out until there is a bead on the tip of the tubing, then use the tubing to spread it along the edge of the chassis. After Im done CAing the chassis, I will typically go over the edge again with 1200grit paper to get the super smooth finish.

Let me ask this . If u set shocks to zero rebound building them ,I'm thiking this pulls a vacume once shocks r installed on car since they r sitting with about 7-9mm of shock shaft showing . With that being said , if a person was to build the shocks with 7-9mm of shaft showing so when car is sitting at ride height their is no pressure or vacume inside the shocks . Is their a reason this isn't the preferred way to build any shock . I built my photon shocks like this and I never "never" had to rebuild shock cause of them having air in them ....

Chassis edging technique I use is using thin CA and Qtips . Drowned the Qtip in CA then role it down edge of chassis with very little pressure quickly . I usually have to do this 3times to get it thick as desired buts its so easy. Be prepared to use about 10qtips tho lol

The T3'12, the brace doesn't quite touch, only in an impact where it helps to even out the force of the impact.

With the T4 as it is (similar to Tamiya also) in a big front impact the bumper braces (upper and lower) will be bent up and back in the impact. As they do so the front of the chassis is exposed to impact.
Most of the time your right, it won't matter, but I have seen chassis crack and split from front impacts on other cars.

I'd rather not take the risk on some of the high speed asphalt tracks I go to.

If you only do blinky on carpet you're probably not going to get the impact speeds to do the damage.

Skiddins

I think you would be more likely to get a splinter while doing all the chassis prep than you would from an "un-prepped" chassis.

Any chassis I've ever had I just simply lightly file the sharp corners and then blue loctite. Never an issue. I don't know where the "have to seal your chassis" instructions originated. Maybe it was something that was once needed and has just perpetuated or perhaps it's for a 1:10000 scenario I've never encountered.

I believe it was with the 09' car ------where it started. Could have been 08'.

But it was for the front bumper area only.
That is all the instructions ever recommended sealing.


later,
Darrald

The manual also recommends using CA glue on the countersunk holes, helps to reinforce the holes to prevent crews pulling through in an accident.

Finally somebody gets it!