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  1. For what it's worth, they're not difficult to work on, just tedious as everything seems to involve dismantling half the truck. Just to add to your dilemmas though, the VXL is great and I love them but they're pricey. For the same money at Modelsport you could get a Hyper VS or Losi SCBE. I'd be looking at either of those over the XS as a potential alternative to the Rustler
  2. I've half a memory that the brushed 4x4 has different diffs as well as the driveshaft so you might want to check that. Either way, I would also recommend you get the bearing adaptor for the motor mount if you've got the plastic bushing. Known weak point even on the VXL, they go all melty
  3. This! I've had two or three (depending how you count ) once you sort the niggles they're a lot of fun and damn nigh indestructible while you're out but they're high maintenance as they eat their own drivetrain and everything takes ten times longer than it should because nothing on it is ever a straight forward couple of bolts and done. When you've got one, you swear at it and it ends up in a box awaiting patience and diffs and when you don't you miss it and want another
  4. Losi Night Crawler? Not MOA but not expensive either and has a pretty good reputation as a crawler.
  5. For the electrics on mine (which are now all gone), the servo was too weak to hold a line, the ESC was browning out under load and the motor burned out in a smokey smelly mess. So technically the motor was the only outright failure but the other two were bad enough that it was worth delving into the spares bin to swap them out. For the plastics, they've been pretty stout for me so far. The sway bar arms don't bite properly so the grub screw backs out, I've spotted a split on one of the battery box supports (also cross brace the frame which is still kinda wobbly) and I've seen enough folk break the chassis at the trailing arm mount to be half expecting that to pop sometime but it hasn't so far. I've had a Yeti and yes, it's a lot more solid (and scale looking). But the Outlaw drives a hell of a lot nicer imho and parts are cheap so I'm not phased. I've got no alloy bling on it yet and it's holding up surprisingly well. Fairly sure if I took it to the skate park, I'd break it in short order but hey, that's not what I bought it for
  6. Tamiya are useless and stupid and basic and come with friction shocks and cheesehead screws and even bearings are an upgrade. But they're a lot of fun and some of them are stupidly cheap and they go together lovely Nintendo has Mario Kart and Tamiya have the Lunchbox and both are a good laugh!
  7. One of the reasons I don't much like the option arms for the Outlaw is the integrated ends, there's nothing to give On the Yeti, the arms take normal ends so there's still a break point and its a couple of quid and two minutes work to swap out to a new one if it does break. Been looking at the option of using 'wraith length' trailing arms on the outlaw but the only ones I can find aren't cheap. Need SSD to make some
  8. I'm thinking the 180 to 200 range too as the the GF01 is 140-160. But I'm voting the unimog body, would look good as a 6x6 Or a G-wagen After all, AMG did that mad 6x6 one
  9. Geeze

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    You may not need much, can also see alloy arms, the upgrade shocks, electronics are changed out and appears to be some carbon lurking on the chassis Edit to say: Just been looking some more, reckon that's got the Exotek kit on it. Very nice.
  10. Geeze

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    Yep, in the pic '4of5' that's the bottom of a standard servo wedged between the shock tower and the slipper cover. Stock they come with two mini-T micro servos (making them proper scaled down copy of the big LST).
  11. Looking good, gotta love a honcho Can't wait for the last of my parts to arrive so that I can get mine back out now
  12. Geeze

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    Just been back to check and yep, you're right, it has! One job sorted already then! Looks to have quite a few tweaky bits on it that one
  13. Geeze

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    They're pretty small, wheelbase is 185mm (same as a mini 8ight). The Savox 0257 is usually a good swap for the useless Losi mini-T servo but from memory there is (was) a mod to the servo plate that allowed you to run a single standard servo instead which would probably be much cheaper and better
  14. Fitted new combo to Outlaw Discovered its DOA
  15. #Gear Head RC 2.2 Five Star EZ-Loc Beadlock Wheels #PIT BULL 2.2 Rock Beast II Scale Crawler,with Komp Kompound #AMF Racing Aluminum Axial Wraith Hood #AMF Racing Aluminum Axial Wraith Roof Panel #AMF Racing Aluminum Axial Wraith Side Panel Set #AMF Racing Aluminum Axial Wraith Rear Deck Lid #BGR Fabrications Wraith trailbar front bumper #KING OFF-ROAD SCALE PIGGYBACK SHOCKS W/FAUX RESERVOIR (110MM) #VANQUISH Currie Axial Wraith Axle Front&Rear According to the blurb on his vids. Can see a fair few others on there too. But yes, the HD diffs and metal geared trans makes the bomber look good value against the wraith. Assuming you can find one in stock that is.....
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