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Good news! I've bent 2 already

I was looking for a cheap truck for a mate and have ended up buying one for myself. I have to say so far this is a great little truck. Took it out yesterday afternoon for it's first run on 2x 2S 5500 mAh packs - really impressed. Had a few flips and tumbles but nothing looks bent or broken Have ordered myself some shock oil as they are way too hard for the way I drive - I like to drive over bumps rather than bouncing over. Part-stripped it down last night to have a good look over, noticed a few things: Centre pinion drive shaft cup grub screw had come loose (on advice from this thread I had checked it before going out) so removed, de-greased and have thread-locked back in place. Steering link bar had a lot of play around the bolts - have put some ally shim around the bolts and fixed that. Front and rear diff pinion/spur both had the smallest fart of grease - topped it up with a little more. Front diff seemed to be sealed okay against the skid plate, where as the rear diff was not and showed some dirt ingress (cleaned rear diff + inner casing) Have smoothed the mating face on the skid plate a bit more (looks like the injection mould pins were 'removed' at the factory, just not that well) and added some vac grease (thickest I have) around the bottom of the diff case's to help stop crud getting in. I also noticed that the shocks aren't very well lined up with the arms, will look to sort that too.

I know this is an old thread, but for anyone with the same issue - the Firestorm dogbones (86886) don’t fit, the drive pins are bigger and won’t go into the hubs.