So one day I was checking the Toys section of craigslist, after all I had purchased my first Savage off of there,when I saw an ad that just said "$50 RC cars", so my interest is piqued right off the bat. Of course i'm thinking they are probably Radioshack quality cars or just junk, but when I opened the page I saw two things...some old OLD vintage RC car I didn't recognize....and a purple heatsink head...I recognized that immediately. I think I waited a day or less before emailing and arranged to pick them up. It was indeed a Savage X and the other was a Kyosho car of some sort. I figure at the very least I just paid $50 for spare parts for my other Savage right?
When I got it I looked it over real quick to see how much was there, all the important bits were so got it home for closer inspection. It included stock wheels...and some traxxas suspension arms? Guess the guy had one of those too but already sold it or something.
That's when I got to see what was wrong. Don't know how it happened, but the suspension was damage on opposite ends of the vehicle, with the pins coming out of the case which isn't uncommon, but looking closer and seeing the bent upper arms and several of the shocks also being bent, with their caps ready to come off. Guess they had fun with this one on the last outing. Couldn't get the engine to turn over either, will have to work on that later.
So the first things i'm gonna need to do is get new arms and since it's a first gen Savage X, probably some TVPs as well...hmm...I think i'll see if I can get some FLM EXT CG ones!
So onto the tearing it down and pouring my money into the toilet.
As expected, the TVP was damaged at the typical weak point.
New upper and lower arms and pins came in and put them on. Do you see what I see!
Oh a bonus, aluminum diff cups...and...lots of sand inside the housing. I noticed one of the diffs didn't move quite right...in fact...it was locked. It was the first one I had apart so I thought maybe they bought lockers for it...but nope, they didn't. More on that later.
When I got it I looked it over real quick to see how much was there, all the important bits were so got it home for closer inspection. It included stock wheels...and some traxxas suspension arms? Guess the guy had one of those too but already sold it or something.
That's when I got to see what was wrong. Don't know how it happened, but the suspension was damage on opposite ends of the vehicle, with the pins coming out of the case which isn't uncommon, but looking closer and seeing the bent upper arms and several of the shocks also being bent, with their caps ready to come off. Guess they had fun with this one on the last outing. Couldn't get the engine to turn over either, will have to work on that later.
So the first things i'm gonna need to do is get new arms and since it's a first gen Savage X, probably some TVPs as well...hmm...I think i'll see if I can get some FLM EXT CG ones!
So onto the tearing it down and pouring my money into the toilet.
As expected, the TVP was damaged at the typical weak point.
New upper and lower arms and pins came in and put them on. Do you see what I see!
Oh a bonus, aluminum diff cups...and...lots of sand inside the housing. I noticed one of the diffs didn't move quite right...in fact...it was locked. It was the first one I had apart so I thought maybe they bought lockers for it...but nope, they didn't. More on that later.
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