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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

    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

    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

    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

    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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    RC Solutions review

    Hey guys I'm looking for a hardcore full body cage and I really like the looks of the RC Solutions cage. I've read reviews on here on them and most everybody who says they are junk don't own em, just seen pics on the net. So for you guys who own them, what is your review? The $110 isn't a big...
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    engine swap ???

    I have a 4.6 savage with only 2 jugs thru it. My buddy bought a 5.9 at the same time as me with 3 jugs thru it, his engine is fine but he wants to up grade to the axial.28 and he wants to sell me his 5.9 for $100. is that a good buy and are there any issues with putting a 5.9 into a 4.6 chassis??
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    metal spur mesh

    is there a different methood to mesh metal gears vs plastic. I got Robinson Racing set and it seems the more you push the gears together so they make good contact then it grinds and doesn't roll. The more gap I put into it the quiter and smoother it rolls. How do you properly mesh these bad...
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    muffler baffle

    In the 4.6 I pulled out the baffle to see if there was a sounds or performance advantage, am I going to hurt anything?
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    stock rims flaking

    My wheels are starting to flake off the fake black chrome. Anyone sand or remove the old paint and spray bomb them with new paint?
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    Glow plug life

    I'm a newbie to RC cars and after a few glow plugs and spider gears I think I'm getting better at tuning the engine and setting the spider gears. But I'm still burning thru a lot of glow plugs it seems, I'll get like 3 or 4 runs say for 2 or 3 tanks of nitro each. Is that the life of glow plugs...
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    4.6 spur gear

    Now that I have FINALLY got my savage tuned properly I have a spur gear question. I burnt thru 3 plastic spur gears trying to get it tuned right and dealing with some wacky idle issues while the wheels were on the ground. But now it runs great so I took it out on a gravel road and into the...
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    Couple questions

    I got a couple newbie questions for you guys. Why is it that with my 4.6 when I hit the brakes my engine die's? As the engine heats up I have to keep turning the throttle trim down untill it gets up to temp then it seems to work better but for 5 or 10min of driving it I can't hit the brakes...
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    my "break" in

    Hey guys, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to RC stuff so hang with me. I just bought a 4.6 savage and want to swallow the buisness end of a shot gun haha.. Me and a buddy who has a savage set it up, when it first fired up it was at normal idle then started screaming then back to normal then...
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