A few mods

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A few mods to the front end you might fined helpful

The 3mm screws in the steering plate and inner turnbuckle can come loose and fall out
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Here are 4mm countersunk screws with cup washers and some nylon tube cut to 5mm long
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4mm nylock nuts, don't think these will come loose anymore
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Next the inner turnbuckles, I'm using MCD stand off ball's
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They are exactly the same size but with a 4mm hole
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Just need to drill out the steering plate 4mm
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All fitted and no more problems with loose screws
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Another quick fix is for the lower Hub screw, I lost one after it came loose and I know others have had the same problem.

Simple to solve, drill a 2.5mm hole in the slot of the hub carrier and fit a 3mm screw
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Now the hub screws are held in place
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Cabbie, nice job, thanks for taking the time to find the parts and post the solutions!

Nutech, I know so far you have made several upgrades/mods to the cars before releasing them, now if people continue to have this problem small, such as this, do you think you will offer a solution of your own and update the ones to be produced? These seem like good, strong mods from Cabbie, just don't see why we should have to do it on a new model. I know you guys have showed great support, unlike HPI, who can't even fill their own diffs...

Bill
 
hi Wild Bill,

We have some modifications done for 2010 production, FTX cars did not have the updated modified parts , but FTX will have revision for new orders 2010, and we also sent some free modified parts to FTX to service consumers.

We also provide some free modified parts to our dealers to service end users.

Thanks

Chris

Nutech Racing
 
Awesome, glad to hear you are taking care of the customer, even before people start to gripe! I think if you keep up the great support you will have a very large following soon!

Bill
 
Exactly Moo, and it's great to see them acknowledge the issue and take care of it when/if something does pop up. Unlike fill your own diffs or pull out your floor mats ;-) haha


Bill
 
Nutech support sold me. I now have one TB2 here and waiting for a GT5R to arrive.

I lost one of those screws today, shuld have done your mod ;) ... so now I am going to find another way of doing my knuckles.
 
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