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  1. NiteRida

    Back after 7 years..... Savages make noise.

    Well, my son and I pulled the savages out again after not touching them for 7 years. Bought new hump packs, roto start battery, new batteries for the remotes and fuel. I should have bought air filters. However, they fired right up. We are taking them to a track on Saturday (1/2/16) that is...
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    Switched to 30% - vid / pic...

    Well, after consultation with an expert... We changed over to 30% from 20% (both O'Donnells). Wow. What a difference. It's 30% from here on out. Shortly after the initial outing my son blew out 2nd gear. I don't exactly contribute this to the fuel change. This transmission has been in...
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    Fuel change.. changed from 20% to 30%

    We've always used O'Donnells 20%. Today I bought 30%. We didn't use it yet. Plan to burn through some this upcoming weekend. I always date and number my gallon jugs. Just about to finish up gallon #17... We'll see how the change goes.
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    brought a STS30 back to life.. vid.

    Video "moves around alot"... My 7 year old son was the "camera kid". Next time we'll try the tri-pod. A co-worker had a STS 30 that hadn't run in over 1 year. He originally ran it on Traxxas Top Fuel, which has alot of oil. The motor was locked up do to the left over goo/oil. So, I...
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    Another Rattle Can Body

    Another rattle can body. Turned out really nice. Original plan was to paint the cowl hood part black, but forgot. Oh well... It'll bash just fine. Looks much better in person than in the picture....
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    Acquired 2 more Savages...

    Acquired 2 more Savages yesterday.... We now have 5. A friend of mine decided to "get out" of the hobby and we struck a deal. The new ones are the two in the front row. The wife asked, "well, what are you going to do with all that stuff?". My son (7yrs old) answered, "Bash them like we do...
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    Diff bearings.... going BOCA Green Seal

    I keep losing the diff bearings. When they go, it usually ruins the bulkhead also... I've read all the shimming stuff and I know what I'm doing. However, I'm going to start each diff from scratch on the shimming this time to eliminate any carryover issues. I've always set-up the ring and...
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    No what I wanted to do... Water Heater

    Walked out in the garage to find the hot water heater leaking...... urrghh. NOT what I wanted to do today. It's leaking at the lower part of the tank AND at the outlet connection. It's 1994 model, so it's done it's time. I just wanted to complain. Off to Lowe's to buy one...
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    RC Driver, March issue (I'm in it...)

    Check out the March issue of RC Driver page 96.... The red and blue ones at the top are mine and my son's. I didn't include my 3rd savage in the picture. It was neat to see my son fip through the magazine and then see his facial expression when he noticed his truck in the magazine. The...
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    Finally - 3 speed shifting correctly!!!!!

    I had the 3 speed kit in once before, but just couldn't get it set right. I became so frustrtred with it that I was ready to trash it. So I re-installed the 2 speed. Well, I re-installed it today with the highspeed 3rd gear. On the 2nd gear I cranked it way down from wher I had it (2 full...
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    Recent videos....

    Over the Thanksgiving holidays we spent some time at a lake house my father-in-law has access to. I captured some video on my digital camera. For some reason the quality (once uploaded to youtube) is marginal. My 7 year old driving his Savage X with a recently acquired F4.6 in place of...
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    Template for designing paint schemes

    A while back I was working on different paint scheme ideas. So, I drew this quick Savage GT-2 body template. Just print some out and work on a plan before you tape and paint. Hope you find this useful. Link to File
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    jump video..

    New to the site, so I thought I would share a jump video that we put together back in January '07. When people ask, "so, how tough are those trucks?" I turn them to this video. The only damage to the truck was the header popped out of the coupler on the last landing. Some people like it...
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    jumping video..... X takes flight...

    Enjoy... next time out we plan to take a tape measure with us to check the distance.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hMBqZvRnQ
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