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shanks 28-02-2010 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by b4pete (Post 349666)
Im home early again due to stupid breakages.
What went pete?

racdeaf 28-02-2010 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by b4pete (Post 349666)
Im home early again due to stupid breakages.
what u broken pete eh ?

b4pete 28-02-2010 11:09 PM
The front hub, the register that the bearings but up to snapped around its diameter and pushed out locking the wheel up, before anyone says it, the wheel nuts werent over tightened, were loctited and were brand new bearings, luckily I had a spare.
One of the arms (bottom) off the servo saver disintegrated, which I didnt have spare
Also ball joints pinging off all over.
Just bought Tamiya cups and balls to replace them.
Will be making some titanium servo saver arms on CNC machine this week to try out if I get chance.

HyperFX 01-03-2010 02:34 AM
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Originally Posted by b4pete (Post 349691)
... Will be making some titanium servo saver arms on CNC machine this week to try out if I get chance.
Please, let me know how the ti saver goes. You might want to machine a few extras for those that wish to purchase from you. Me, me, ME! :)

AmiSMB 01-03-2010 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by b4pete (Post 349691)
The front hub, the register that the bearings but up to snapped around its diameter and pushed out locking the wheel up, before anyone says it, the wheel nuts werent over tightened, were loctited and were brand new bearings, luckily I had a spare.
One of the arms (bottom) off the servo saver disintegrated, which I didnt have spare
Also ball joints pinging off all over.
Just bought Tamiya cups and balls to replace them.
Will be making some titanium servo saver arms on CNC machine this week to try out if I get chance.
In the last month I have had exactly the same parts go on me. The lower part of the servo saver broke on the side which there does not seem to be much plastic left to reinforce the outside edge. I have attached pictures of the failure. I really feel I can drive better with the Durango than any of the other 10th cars I have owned.

b4pete 01-03-2010 09:49 AM
How much do you think would be a reasonable price for a Ti full set ov servo saver arms?

samd 01-03-2010 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by b4pete (Post 349736)
How much do you think would be a reasonable price for a Ti full set ov servo saver arms?
Don't know but I'll probably have a set if it's not too much!

AmiSMB 01-03-2010 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by b4pete (Post 349736)
How much do you think would be a reasonable price for a Ti full set ov servo saver arms?
At the moment you will have people crying out for them as TD do not have any in stock. Also alloy cnc front spindles would be very nice too! :)

b4pete 01-03-2010 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by AmiSMB (Post 349739)
At the moment you will have people crying out for them as TD do not have any in stock. Also alloy cnc front spindles would be very nice too! :)
CNC Lathe wont go down that far.

cmgreen 01-03-2010 12:44 PM
Chris,

I thought you were doing very well with the bj4 before you 'gave up for good' :D. I do think you made a gud choice of car for current technology, even tho i think otherwise, you should do quite well 'again' with this one.

You comming down to seaham ????

CG

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Originally Posted by nobby (Post 349186)
i ran a little poll in the generel rc section to get some sort of idea what people were running and what was popular.
to be fair the schumacher was the most popular, but i decided to go for the durango.
since getting the car most people have started selling there durango's because of snapped drive pins and a few other problems.

now the question i have is have these problems been experienced by everyone or just a few, and is it a build problem or a manufacturing problem?

now if it's a manufacturing problem are durango going to do anything about it i.e. replace any fualty parts in kits already sold?

are there any tips on stopping these problems happening?

thanks.

brooksy 01-03-2010 05:09 PM
I have to say that I think the durango is a solid car and i had this confirmed yesterday at Worksop when a cat hit it head on at full speed over the four small jumps and all that happened to mine was a popped ball joint!.

The cat however came of a lot worse,the front end of if just disintegrated. It snapped a shock shaft,the shock mount snapped in half and the wishbone and wheel went flying towards race control as did the rest of the car!.

telboy 01-03-2010 10:00 PM
Ah, that was your race was it? lol

That had to be one of the most destructive crashes I've seen for ages!!
There were bits everywhere.

It looked just like an F1 crash!:D

brooksy 01-03-2010 10:31 PM
Yep,that was me!.:cry:. I actually closed my eyes at the moment of impact because of the speed he was going.lol. He totaly miss-judged the jumps and ended on my side of the track!.
Oh what fun we have racing toy cars!!!.


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