front chassis plate...

[Bazzokajoe]

Hey guys... every time i run i break a front chassis plate... i usually only get about a 5 minute run because i break the front chassis plate on on of the first few landings...

anyone else do this?

its getting expencive... it breaks just before the bend in the plate..

any tips?

[nicefrog]

I haven't broken one but I'm only driving on dirt. If you are landing on some really hard stuff, maybe you will just have to use tighter springs and or oil in the front to stop it hitting the ground so hard. Also I think if you re-enforce the area where it's breaking with some steel based epoxy, like JB weld maybe it'll be stronger

[JezT]

In the early days (March) me and my son, Max, kept breaking the plates also; I ended up knocking a couple of plates up out of 2 mm alloy (using hand tools ie hacksaw and hand drill.... bent in a vice) - not the most elegant of solutions but since then we haven't had a single breakage up front; Also added 26 gms up front that seems to help steering.

However - since then the newly designed has been produced - maybe that has more strength... Anybody else got any experience of that?

[kedal]

I broke 2 plates like you, and I put the last one I have few weeks ago. Not broke it so far, yes !

I'll do a reinforcement like Jezt did, with a alloy plate 1,5mm or 2mm to repaire my 2 broken plates.

[nicefrog]

There was a part upgrage with that (and most of the other parts that broke early on) My cars are fairly new and I haven't been able to break anything on any of them unless I crash at full speed into brick walls. So maybe the spares you are buying are old stock?. I noticed today Positronics front suspension carrier with the brass weight has grub scews to hold the front arm pins to remove any slop and the early ones of those did not

[kaylon]

I drive mine quite hard..indoor's and grass, have not broken the front plate...

Could be bad luck with older parts maybe...

J