Smashed into a concrete wall. ?

[gdl357]

Took the MT out to a parking lot to continue breakin...I don't know what happened but had a brain fart and just watched the truck slam into the wall at 1/4 throttle. My brain did not think of braking at all.

Anyways I broke plastic chassis brace and bent the chasdis about 3/16" upwards and bent front dogbone.

I have an aluminum front brace in the mail. This I strongly recommend. Also I find the weakpoint is the chassis and not the bumper. That's not good.

 

[gdl357]

Repaired and fixed again and bam...same wall, this time I just nicked a front tire. It was cool seingbthe tire fly in the air.

No biggie, just a upper arm and the hub were slapped.

I checked the other Rampage I got as a trade and sure enough there were aluminum hubs. I guess the other owner must have had the same issues as me. I hate aluminum parts but this and the brace are a must on this truck.

The worst part is bringing back a tire and remote in one hand and a 35lbs truck held from the rollcage in the other. At this point you realize what that poor 32cc is going through moving this tank around on demand.

 

[Presto78]

Did you loctite the axle pins that are on the wheel hub side? I lost one on the front and rear tire half way through the break in.

 

[gdl357]

Did you loctite the axle pins that are on the wheel hub side? I lost one on the front and rear tire half way through the break in.

They seems to be Red loktite on them already. I tried to unscrew but just stopped before I strip the allen grub.

Even the screws on the top plate screwed onto the steering posts have red loktite. I have to heat up the screwhead with my mini torch so I can unscrew them.

I installed a DDM Dominiator pipe an needed to reverse the tanch so the gas cap would cleat the pipe. I had to heat those screws and as carefull as I was, I ended up burning a hole in my tank.
I should have used soldering iron with solderinstead.