ShiftPoint
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Hi,
Here are some pictures of my truck. I am kind of embarrassed about spending so much money on it and in the end feeling like I ruined the truck, don’t get me wrong, I think it looks great but as for as performance and fun driving, well it is lacking big time. It is just too heavy. I am kind of glad I go it out of my system, and I was just looking for a reason to take the thing apart.
So I spent more money and bought a SS kit, I don’t want to throw this away of course, but I am not having near as much fun with it as before, so I have a couple of ideas and would like some advice.
I can either part some of this out and use it on the new truck, like half on one and half on the other but I don’t think I want any heavy parts one the new one. So I guess my question is, is there a motor that would be big or powerful enough, or other way (without scrapping the mods) to make this thing fun again? I guess what I am asking is how do people use these, or are they just for looks? Might be good for plowing traxxas with, it is so heay I think it would do a good job there
Next thing I am going to do is take the pipe off, I was thinking some of the power loss may be because of the pipe, it is one of those quad pipes and I suspect it is not doing a good job I don’t think it has much pressure because I can not shut the motor off by covering the holes, I think I am getting all of them covered but I must not be, in any case I will put the stock pipe back on and see how it does.
As far as the parts I got goes, everything shown in the pictures works or at least fits pretty good, there were a couple of minor problems and some parts I bought that are useless
The Center gearbox case, there was a problem using it with the duel disk brakes, the screws and bushings that comes with the gearbox is not long enough for all 3 of the metal plates that rub against the disk’s, I had to use a different screws and make a different bushings from some brass tubing I had around here, it would be fine for the older brakes.
That is really the only problem I can think of that I had assembling the thing.
Oh, one more problem, and question, I need some shocks that will work with the extra weight, Does anyone know if there are any shocks I can get or these heavy trucks? I tried some stiffer springs (in the pic) but they aren’t quite good enough.
Ok here are some worthless or totally useless parts, (all by Integy)
1.Uprights --they rub the inside of the wheels.
2.Heavy duty turnbuckles- the ball the screws go through do not pivot far enough, so the only way to use them is if you compress the shocks about halfway down, the lack of movement n the ball won’t allow enough of an angle for proper fit.
3.the rollbar- just doesn’t fit around the motor correctly.
4.steering assembly (don’t remember what it is called) there is no servo saver on it.
Thanks,
John
Here are some pictures of my truck. I am kind of embarrassed about spending so much money on it and in the end feeling like I ruined the truck, don’t get me wrong, I think it looks great but as for as performance and fun driving, well it is lacking big time. It is just too heavy. I am kind of glad I go it out of my system, and I was just looking for a reason to take the thing apart.
So I spent more money and bought a SS kit, I don’t want to throw this away of course, but I am not having near as much fun with it as before, so I have a couple of ideas and would like some advice.
I can either part some of this out and use it on the new truck, like half on one and half on the other but I don’t think I want any heavy parts one the new one. So I guess my question is, is there a motor that would be big or powerful enough, or other way (without scrapping the mods) to make this thing fun again? I guess what I am asking is how do people use these, or are they just for looks? Might be good for plowing traxxas with, it is so heay I think it would do a good job there
Next thing I am going to do is take the pipe off, I was thinking some of the power loss may be because of the pipe, it is one of those quad pipes and I suspect it is not doing a good job I don’t think it has much pressure because I can not shut the motor off by covering the holes, I think I am getting all of them covered but I must not be, in any case I will put the stock pipe back on and see how it does.
As far as the parts I got goes, everything shown in the pictures works or at least fits pretty good, there were a couple of minor problems and some parts I bought that are useless
The Center gearbox case, there was a problem using it with the duel disk brakes, the screws and bushings that comes with the gearbox is not long enough for all 3 of the metal plates that rub against the disk’s, I had to use a different screws and make a different bushings from some brass tubing I had around here, it would be fine for the older brakes.
That is really the only problem I can think of that I had assembling the thing.
Oh, one more problem, and question, I need some shocks that will work with the extra weight, Does anyone know if there are any shocks I can get or these heavy trucks? I tried some stiffer springs (in the pic) but they aren’t quite good enough.
Ok here are some worthless or totally useless parts, (all by Integy)
1.Uprights --they rub the inside of the wheels.
2.Heavy duty turnbuckles- the ball the screws go through do not pivot far enough, so the only way to use them is if you compress the shocks about halfway down, the lack of movement n the ball won’t allow enough of an angle for proper fit.
3.the rollbar- just doesn’t fit around the motor correctly.
4.steering assembly (don’t remember what it is called) there is no servo saver on it.
Thanks,
John
