[What did you do to your model today?]

finished my new fire dragon build, and made an new roof panel from a 1.5mm lexan sheet for the Losi rock rey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[What did the postie bring you today?]

39 minutes ago, rccar4life said:

 

Nice, you have any threadh about these builds ?

 

No I have not, the lunchbox I have to build and just started on the firedragon, the other cars I have for some years, but I am going to post some pics when I am done with the car.

[What did the postie bring you today?]

The postman brought me some hi caps for my fire dragon build, new gears for my dancing rider, gears for my hotshot, some bearings, alloy body post  for my lunchbox, some dt-03 alloy c hubs, and some nice delrin suspension arms for my new lunchbox, to do the double wishbone conversion.

 

 

[What did you do to your model today?]

Rebuild the rear driveshafts of my traxxas rustler 4x4 so it has now pins and boots , in the process  I found out that the wheel bearings had seized up and one of the diff bearings, it sounded a little squeaky the last time I run it, so I changed all the diff bearings, and center diff bearings and wheel bearings, the front of the car is still smooth so no need to replace the bearings there.

 

 

[What did you do to your model today?]

Took the Hpi  jumpshot mt for a ride,  I like this car a lot and it drives great.

 

 

[Losi 22s sct no grip and spinning out all the time]

maybe it is just this type of rc that struggles on loose surfaces with the tires just not wide enough to get the traction on a 2 wheel drive, I am thinking to try out some truck tires from my hpi jumpshot mt and see what it does, maybe then change the body and wheels , or sell it because I do not want to put a lot off money in it, and I have enough rc car that I like.

 

I had a serpent sct 2 wheel drive, never had problems with traction but I only drove it on tarmac with the louise rocket tires, never on the beach, so I can not compare.

[What did you do to your model today?]

Brought the Hot shot back to pieces, and put it in a nice warm bad to let it soak all the dirt of, I am going to rebuild the car and bring it back to stock form, it had the super hotshot suspension parts on it but I like the look of the original more.

 

[What did the postie bring you today?]

A lunchbox to still my hunger to buy.

It is the pre assembled one, most off the times a prefer the kit version, but this one was on sale and 40 euro cheaper then the kit version, a bonus is that I do not have to paint the hard body,  but I have to rebuild the thing put bearings in it and do some small upgrades.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Losi 22s sct no grip and spinning out all the time]

Last year a bought a losi 22s  sct ,  I has a castle brushless motor 3800kv motor in it running on 2s, I do not know what it wrong with this thing ,it is all over the place, on tarmac, grass and on the beach, at first I tought it was the stock tires that where rubbish, so  I bought new tires for it an put some thicker oil in the diff, but it still drives like a turd, gave it a spin on the beacht today, and tested it on grass, a little throttle and it goes sideways, even when Iam genty on the throttle and in a straight line it just spins out.

 

I don't know ho to solve it, the diff works fine and is nothing wrong with it, I do not wan't to try out a bunch of tires and other stuff to make it better, maybe some one over here have  a solution fot it.

 

I run a lot of 2 wheels drive cars on the beach a lot of tamiya buggies,  I have a brushless hpi jumpshot mt that drives great, and I had a serpent 2wd sct that I had no problems with grip, even a brushless madbull is easier to handle on the beach then the Losi, so to me it is a little strange that is runs that bad, when I watch movies on youtube it runs.

good.

 

I ask myself why I bought it, because I sold my serpent sct because of the parachute effect off the body, today with a little wind on the beach the car tries to fly away with a little speed, maybe it is just better to take my loss and sell it.

[Recommend me some on-road SC tyres please]

Look at the duratrax bandito/louise rocket tires, very good tires for onroad, I had them on my serpent sct  driving on dusty parking lots, and tarmac, the tires have a lot of grip an last a long time do not wear quick,  and I just had to be gently on the trigger because of wheelies so no lack of grip.

 

https://www.louiserc.eu/Pick-by-Car/ASSOCIATED/SC10/Louise-RC-SC-ROCKET-1-10-Short-Course-Tire-Set-Mounted-Soft-Black-Wheels-Asso-SC10-4X4-L-T3154SBAA/

[What did you do to your model today?]

13 minutes ago, Tug said:

 

Could be salt corrosion?

that is plausible, I run my cars also over the wet sand, and when I clean them I only brush of the sand, salt dries out rubber,  but I never had a problem with tires and run most of the time on the beach,  but this could be the case with those rubber boots.

[What did you do to your model today?]

16 minutes ago, Kpowell911 said:

Hmm Ive ran XO-1 shafts on a few 4x4 Models over the years and never had an issue with them cracking? Do you clean the truck after every run?

I clean them every run, maybe the boots do not like  sand, I only drive the car  on the beach, the driveshaft  are fine but the boots have cracks in it and it looks like the rubber is dried out a bit, so I have to rebuild them or buy other driveshafs.

 

Or maybe I remove the boots and make some clips or something to hold the pins in place, the new traxxas driveshaft do no have boots anymore.

[What did you do to your model today?]

After almost a year doing nothing with my rc cars, today I took my rustler 4x4 out of a cartbox and run it on the beach,  had a lot of fun.

 

Really like the rustler, but I do not like the XO-1 driveshafts I put on it, the driveshaft self are great but the rubber boots are cracking everwhere and I need to replace them because the hold the driveshaft pins in place , only had about 16 battery packs trough the driveshafts,  and new boots cost me about 40 euro, tekno driveshaft for the car are about 100 euro, I do not want to change the boots every 16 packs then it is going to be expensive, thinking about buying the  tekno ones.

 

 

[big wheels & shredding spurs!]

I had the same problem on my rustler 4x4 after 3 battery packs I stripped the spur, and that with a correct mesh and slipper, I have the center diff with metal spur in it now and I have no more problems.

[HPI Jumpshot ST Flux Owners]

On 08/02/2022 at 17:55, d.lgwth said:

 

Would this stop it stripping? 

 

Yes is does because the teeth are bigger,  I am using an 54 tooth spur gear, but with the original motor it is better to use the 57 tooth one because you can not  gear it low enough  with the 54 tooth spur.

The only thing you have to do is dill the hole in the spur a little bigger with a 5mm drill it just to tight but after drilling it fits like a glove and no more stripping gears.

 

57 tooth AR310405

54 tooth AR310404

slipper pads AR310584

[HPI Jumpshot ST Flux Owners]

why do you guys not upgrade to a 32 pitch spur gear, I am running an arrma 32 pitch spur gear on mine  with arrma slipper pads, work perfect 

[The Adventure's of Ting Ting's Rustler]

44 minutes ago, Tingting44 said:

Msuk does not have any info on these driveshafts either… would love to hear from someone that’s used them

 

Si (Modelsport)  21 Sep 2021, 10:41 BST  Hello    These are a brand new item which we have not stocked to date, so have no info on how they compare, apologies.

 

They are expensive and I don't know how they are, I use the xo-01 driveshafts on mine and they are good, run more then 20 packs trough the car on 3s lipo with an big motor and they are fine, but you need the knuckles and rear hubs and 12mm hex to do the upgrade so that is expensive to,  if I where you  and you could find the tekno driveshaft you better of buying them they are cheaper then the traxxas ones and seem to be very good.

 

I went for the xo-1 shaft because I made a mistake thought they sell in pairs so I bought  one for the front and rear, when they arrived I noticed that they where sold as a single driveshaft if I new that I had bought the tekno ones.

[Sold Please Delete for sale hobao DC1 crawler kit version]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hobao DC1 Owners]

2 hours ago, walkbythesea said:

I really am very seriously tempted and figure I’m already bought into 1/10 scale crawling in a pretty big way and can easily share wheels/tyres around etc

 

With the DC1 as more of a trail truck in the quiver I could then concentrate on making the Sendero more crawling specific and the Carisma Rangey more of a scaler, and of course Krystal will always be Krystal….   😂

If you interested in a DC1, I am thing thinking of selling mine, it is the kit version with alloy wheels, hw 1080 esc, high torgue servo, 4 link suspension with servo mount on the axle, 27 turn brushed motor, the car has only run 2 times.

I  can sell it for £250, shipping is a bit high because I live in the netherlands but I can ship it for £23

[The Adventure's of Ting Ting's Rustler]

2 hours ago, Tingting44 said:

Thanks mate it should be here today so I can see what's going on, I asked msuk several times if this would need anything adapters 😞

 

You need the rpm mount without it you can't  mount the wheely bar from the 2wd versions.

I know for sure that I post it in one here that you can use wheely bar with the rpm mount, but I think you did not noticed it.

 

Here is an picture of mine with the rpm mount and 2 wd wheely bar

 

 

 

[The Adventure's of Ting Ting's Rustler]

9 hours ago, Tingting44 said:

ll let ya know when it comes, if its wrong its not my fault, even my msg subject was rustler 4x4 wheelie bar lol 😞

you can use the wheely bar but you need the rpm wheely bar mount,  I have the bleu one on mine from the 2wd,

 

here is the link for the rmp mount https://www.eurorc.com/product/24164?currency=EUR&cc=EUR

[Are HPI spares still easy to get hold of?]

21 hours ago, immortaljellyfish said:

I've been eying up the 2WD Jumpshot Flux's for a while now and am probably gonna gamble on an MT for my next purchase. I'll be sure to let y'all know if it comes back to bite me!

 

I bought the jumpshot flux mt v2 a month ago or so, but there are enough parts for it find, integy have almost every part in alloy, and in the uk wheelspin an modelsport has parts for it,  I live in the netherlands and even there I can find parts for it local and enough on ebay, so I think you do have to worry  if you buy a jumpshot, other Hpi models is maybe a different story I don't know.

[What did the postie bring you today?]

Dancing rider, hopup parts for it and for other cars,  some lipo's for the dancing rider and some tires.

 

 

 

 

[What did the postie bring you today?]

23 minutes ago, walkbythesea said:

SSD steel drive shaft for the Outlaw

 

 

 

I think the outlaw is not going to last very long on 4s, but maybe it surprices me

[What did you do to your model today?]

Put an new servo saver on  the HPI jumpshot, the stock one was rubbish, it was allready sloppy when it was new but after a little crash it was to much, the wheels won't stayed centered anymore, so I used a tamiya high torque servo saver with an alloy servo horn it is much better now, tried a kimbrough that I had as a spare but that one does not fit.