Yay. All been a help. Got 2 NimH's, 3300mAH & 4000mAH already, but the Mtroniks Pro Vision ate them pretty quick anyway. Plan to get a couple more to add to the collection.

Have settled for sticking a standard "silver can" motor from a Max4 buggy in the SB Sport for the time being. Will see how slow it is when I next get a chance to use it.

Not sure about club racing meets yet. Think I should learn to drive safely first, as I'm sure people might get upset if I accidently ram their valuable buggies at high speed. Got a couple of mates with buggies as well, so happy racing round some cones and ropes for the time being.

Cheers

Steve

not really arguing, i just overreacted when he said that i didn't know what i what i was talking about when he didn't realise that i did. Also, the diff balls might need replacing... ...Heck, just maybe even buy a whole associated diff!:D I don't know if it will fit, but if you have money to spend and alot of diff shims i would try it. Especially the tc3 front one way. You can do the steering mod very easily. (reposition the ball cups on the steering links.) Andif you can find them, aluminum steering links would be great, b/c they flex ALOT!:o Have fun with your new rc!

Couple more questions - anyone know where best to get academy spares in the UK? Looks like I'm going to need to replace the diff outdrives pretty soon. Just somewhere I can buy those would be handy.

Also on the subject of the diff outdrives - I gather the fault here lies with the pins on the dogbone, not a fault with soft outdrives? Can better dogbones from another car be fitted? or is replacing the pins with a bit of stainless bar definately the way forward?

Also an exploded diagram, with part numbers or something might be handy, if this sort of thing is available. Trouble is, to me alot of the item descriptons for RC car spares don't mean alot.

Cheers again

Steve

The outdrives are soft, not butter soft, but not as hard as they could be, and then to compound this, the ball on the dogbone is to small, so it rattles in the outdirve and rather then the side of the drive pin contacting the slot in the outdrive to give drive, the dogbone drops and the top edge of the pin contacts the slot in the outdrive and munchies it's way through, so a longer pin (I think it was 13mm or 14mm) seriously reduces wear.

Any Horizon Hobby stockist will have access.

If you PM me your email adress, I will email you a pdf for the manual.

don't ever use ultimate hobbies. they don't stock academy anymore. i have no idea about the dogbones, but if you can find some that are the same length, they might work. If you want to replace the pins, it would probably help to heat the 'bones till they are red hot, stick em in something, (just don't pinch them) and whack the crap out of it with a hammer and nail punch.

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Originally Posted by lazerboy (Post 57790) that's what i want to do when i get a 4wd buggy, just with stadium truck tires, and an st body so i can have the worlds first 4wd electric 1/10 stadium truck.;)

yokomo did a MR4-BC truck ? lol 4wd with big wheels and tyres on it ... :D

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Originally Posted by gravelrash (Post 57835) Yay. All been a help. Got 2 NimH's, 3300mAH & 4000mAH already, but the Mtroniks Pro Vision ate them pretty quick anyway. Plan to get a couple more to add to the collection.

Glad to be of some help there steve ! :cool:

wot kinda area do you live mate?? cos i have a huge lot of academy spares but they are really too big to post. if your interested??

I'm definately interested. I'm in Somerset, UK. Bit of a trek, but will PM you.

Cheers

Steve

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