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    What did I break?

    After a long long time of sitting i finally took out the savage for a rip. Started great ran great and had a somewhat gentle roll over and flipped it over while it was running and something locked up. Tried to give it gas and would rev up but something is locked up in the tranny or cluch. The...
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    brakes on X

    thanks Pope.. I bent the shaft a tiny bit and man did that help out a TON.. I can do a 4 wheel lock up now if I sqeeze the trigger hard enough.. Thanks bud.
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    brakes on X

    My savage X is a year old and right out of the box the twin brake set up sucked. My dad and a buddy both have XL's and if they brake to hard they can flip it over. Mine is nothing like that, I turn that adjustment screw to tighten up the brakes and it help but it still takes a while to stop when...
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    3rd gear upgrade

    Yeah the new 2 speed trannys cases are suppose to be a perfect fit for the 3 speed swap. Anyways I emailed HPI with pics and a detailed description of what happened. And yes it was covered under warrenty. The shaft they had was a mm or two short causing the gear to eat on each other. just...
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    3rd gear upgrade

    thanks Jud, what did you spens for your kit? I can see HPI saying that but it still hasen't been installed in the car and I had 2 hobby guys look at it for hours and they are baffled. after reading all the 3 speed failures I should have spent my money on something else.
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    3rd gear upgrade

    Thanks WC. I found the issue and it's a good one. So we attached the spur gear shaft to a cord less drill while the tranny was all together and all the screws were tight. We ran it for 3min or so and it got a bit easier to spin, then when we opened the case again there were plastic shavings all...
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    3rd gear upgrade

    I got it in there and it is assembled correctly. But now there is a fair bit of resistance when turning the spur gear, before with my 2 speed you could flick the spur and it would spin freely for 5-10 sec now it's hard to turn and stops dead when your done spining it. I took it to my hobby...
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    3rd gear upgrade

    I bought the 3rd gear kit for my savage X and the instructions that come with them are just pictures no real instructions. Anybody got a actual instruction for this? With all the gears, screws, shims, bearing you think they would type some actual words in their instructions. Thanks guys
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    glow plugs range

    awesome thanks Micky, do you take the body off so the snow doesn't collect underneth? How hot of a glow plug do you run in winter?
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    glow plugs range

    cool I never thought about the air filter, good idea. Do you leave the top open so you can get the ignitor into the glow plug? thought it would be sealed to keep the snow out.
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    glow plugs range

    whats the range of the different glow plugs? 5's, 4's and 3's. I ran it today about 0c outside with 2"of light snow and it struggled with the 5 in it. And i've seen guys put aluminum cans over the cooling head to keep the heat in but how do you get the can to stay on there? thanks guys..
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    RPM arms

    never mind, I'm a idiot. just took me a 2end look to figure it out. Sorry for the hassel.
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    RPM arms

    thats a great pic but it doesn't help me on how you mounted it. did you use nut and bolt or how did the shock mount on the a arm? thanks!
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    RPM arms

    I just bought upper and lower A arms for my savage and I seen a lot of guys complain they are to tight to fit in whick is fine. But how do you mount the shocks on them now? A tiny nut and bolt or what? Thanks guys
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    re-enforceing body

    I was travelling thru Billings MT and stopped in at a local RC shop. I was looking for yet another body (I keep bashing the hell outta my box of the trucks and ripping them compltley off). I'm gonna get a cage from Drummer after the holidays and spending all the christmas cash. But the owner...
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