[andys]

Update:

Ran the DNX408 for the first time at MMRX.
Pretty much kit setup apart from shock oils. The car went ok, couldn't get over the small quad jumps without the rear kicking up, but apart from that the car felt ok.

To be totally honest, it didn't feel much different to my RC8B on the dusty slippy surface. Granted, it looked nicer going around but wasn't initially 'miles' better in my opinion. That was a tad disappointing as the Durango 410 was a quantum leap up for me from my previous buggies. Just shows that with 8th scale, that maybe isn't that much difference between the top cars ?

Anyway - it ran well and appeared not to break all day long - good stuff.

On cleaning the day after I noticed a few things

1_The rear centre driveshaft spring clip was nowhere to be seen. The bearing was halfway out but thankfully no damage looks like it's occurred to the gears on opening up the rear gearbox case. I was super careful putting the 'spring clips' on so wondered has this happened to anyone else ?

2_3 of the 4 axles felt like they were binding, not running free at all. One on the rear almost couldn't be turned by hand. I dismantled them all and ended up removing the large shims that go on the inside of the hub. These shims look slightly the wrong size (a touch too large in internal diameter) which could be why they were not seating correctly and rubbing on the bearing covers rather than marrying up to the correct part of the bearing. All seems fine now re assembled, even with no shims there is little if any play. Again, anyone else had this ? Do you need the shims ? Are they the wrong size ?

Apart from that everything else was ship-shape. Servicing the diffs is so easy and not a touch of muck or dust had entered the gearbox case - nice.

Im guessing it will run a lot better next time as the engine was fighting against 3 binding axles !

Would be interested to hear other peoples first run impressions.