Something that may catch your guy's eyes. A gentlemen at the Savage-central.com forums has been having the same issue that alot of us Savage owners have been dealing with, the stupid bumper braces sometimes rotates and will allow the hinge pins for the arms to fall out on our Savages. The quick and easy fix was to wrap some zip ties and call it good. But this guy wanted to take it to the next step with something "nicer" looking as well as functional and he needed some prototypes field tested free of charge, so I figured what the hell and signed myself up! Welp, I just found a nice surprise in my mailbox today! Thanks again Team-TCS for giving me the chance to test these! I've never beta tested hardware before, so this will be fun! I"ll post my impressions once I get back from vacation next week and can bash with them.

http://www.savage-central.com/module...wtopic&t=82237



Getting them on is easy enough....



Not sure if this is a design flaw or not, but the hinge pins won't fit through the cut openings, so it wont sit completely flush



Well, it looks better then zip ties at least!



BEFORE:

ya know, its the same thing on the nitro savage. so i just ordered different style ones. mine screw into the bulkhead.

The older version didn't have this prob - bulk came far fwd and bmpr bolted in right there and couldn't move - course this mad getting diffs out a real chore.

Got a link for the nitro piece??

i cant find it anywhere. i got them from my LHS an d didnt keep the packing. ill take a pic of them.

Excellent IDEA..

mine....

Thanks for the pics! Now I'll go looking.

Those are the original S25 bumper sets? Hinge pins won't budge with that kind of attachment to the front bulkhead. Do they still manufature those plastic parts?

Thanks for the pics.

i have no idea what they are. i needed new bumpers so i went to my LHS and they gave me these.

That looks like the same piece that's on my old 4.6SS. I'm going to see if it will swap over later this evening. If it does, I'll post the part number.

Well, it fits - sorta. Main prob is it leaves too much of a gap between the plate part that prevents the hinge pin from coming out and the hinge pin itself. This gap is about 2x as much as the stock arrangement has. I'm sure you could epoxy a piece of scrap across the back to reduce the gap which would eliminate the gap. But there's still a prob -

On my 4.6SS, there is a protruding boss on the side of the bulk that matches a recess on the inside of these bumper support arms - that boss is not there on the Flux bulk (screw hols are there though) and in my opinion, this makes this weaker than the stock setup. HPI is supposed to be coming out with some improvements for the Flux, maybe this will be addressed. A pr of pics showing this part installed (HPI P/N 85060 - its in my 4.6SS manual on pg 52) - 2nd pic shows gap a little better. I'm staying with the zip ties for now.

i got the original stock S25 bumper braces with GPM aluminum arms and mine dont move.. i've never had a problem with them...

Well, finally got the chance to try them today at my bash pit. Needless to say, the didn't fair so well after a half hour of semi hard bashing. I'll be informing TCS they need to make it out of more sturdier material. The front failed within the first few minutes, the rear held together but it doesn't experience the punishment the front bulkhead does.