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Check that out to. I am leaning towards converting one of mine to a FLUX also I have and old SS and a 5.9.
Odds are if the receiver has a chip in it, then it is probably one of the older style receivers and that chip is for your frequency. You may just want to go on and upgrade the receiver and transmitter to one of the newer units the Futaba or if you want to save some change since you are new you...
Looks like the old Nitro star 25 looks like you are missing the high speed needle set up and the nipple that goes into the carb for the fuel is the plastic cracked where the air filter goes or is it broken off looks cracked to me.
Power transfer is power transfer it doesn't matter with what, the round end is to give you more wiggle room with the shaft. The flex idea still has me scratching my head I can understand some flex but eventually that flexing is going to stop and then you have power transfer. When you broke your...
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It doesn't matter if it's rounded or straight the same amount of power is delivered as long as you have a good hook up in the backplate. The reason it is rounded is to let you put the shaft in at an angle and still be able to start it. Think of it as an allen wrench with the ball...
Alot of the parts are interchanageable through the different models of savages. I cant say for sure if these are or not you could look up the part number for the 25 bumper and compare it to the part number of the X and Flux if they are the same then all is good.