MikeK1981
ChondroManiac
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So I picked up a bone stock 5T (white body) with less than a gallon of fuel through it for an unbelievable deal. All this waiting was well worth ther deal i got! I got it with a 'broken clutch'. I've been doing my research for a while now and learned that the stock setup is notorious for having the pinion bolt back aout and snap off. Turns out that was all that was wrong with it! The guy never even took the spur cover off to look at it! The head of the screw was was in the gears. 30 minutes later (including my drive time to the hardware store and back, lol) I had it ripping! This thing is awesome, I'm loving the ease of use and reliability! So I ordered the V1 killer bee killswitch for my Futaba 3pm 2.4 Ghz, a DDM 5000mah battery, and a hardware kit for the V1 rear Dominator pipe that was thrown in with it. I'm gonna order some outerwears eventually. Basically its just gonna be mostly stock unless I start beaking things, but I'm not gonna be too hard on it so I don't see myself breaking much. I want to run it in sand as well as dirt so I'm thinking of sandproofing the carb and linkage. Any other advice for simple DIY mods I can do to make it more reliable/safer?