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FMS FCX24 Monster Truck


Nicky

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I was recently bought a FMS FCX24 1/24th Smasher, I want to use it as a monster truck for back garden bashing. What upgrades would people recommend? Links to products would be appreciated. I’m not particularly experienced with RC cars so could really do with some guidance. 
 

I am interested in upgrading

the motor

possibly tyres

suspension, do I fill the stock shocks with oil (what oil) or get new ones. 
do I need metal gears?
Steering links? 
can I upgrade the batteries? 
any other metal upgrade parts. 
 

Thank you in advance for any advice. 
 

 

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If it’s for bashing I generally only upgrade the drive train to metal. Maybe motor and servo mounts if they’ve got any flex, which I doubt will be a problem in that little thing.
 

Alloy shocks are good too but I only bother upgrading them if they’re not oil filled or I break the plastic ones.

 

 

 

 

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22 hours ago, wolfie1 said:

Yeah a great many options, I guess I need some specifics, like what’s oil do I need for the shocks, is there a better alternative battery, 

I also understand that there are some bushings somewhere in the model, I’d like to replace those if possible. 
 

What upgrades have other people made?  

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I can tell you for replacing bushings take them out and measure them so say for example say is 17x26x5 for the bushing this is broken down as internal diamater x external diameter x width in this order and put that into ebay or wherever and this will give you the size of bearings, the other number you may get may be 2rs for example after the numbers this signifies that it has 2 rubber shields on it which would be my recommendation for an rc vehicle, there is other types of shieldings available but it is the 2rs you want. Hope that makes sense

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Ok as I got a smasher for Xmas I had the speed motor and FMS metal transmission gears waiting ready to go now a couple of things the FMS metal gears you need to grind a couple of them to fit as they’re slightly bigger the the plastic ones a known problem by FMS and for some reason the mesh between the pinion a spur is not good a lot of screaming very unmistakable sound of gears getting stripped secondly the speed motor doesn’t work well with the stock ESC it wants too much power for the stock one to handle and on full throttle top gear it goes then cuts out then goes then cuts out and so on so I got different batteries from Amazon with a higher C rating as the stock battery is only 5c and I had to get a different ESC this is the one I replaced it with https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/injora-mb100-brushed-mini-esc-20a-for-1-24-1-18-rc-crawlers-1356687 now it doesn’t cut out at all but now I need to change the servo plugs and run a separate RX/TX and then there’s the new problem of fitting it all in but that’s just part of the fun for me but it definitely needs the faster motor as the stock one is way too slow hope some of this makes sense and helped slightly 

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