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Originally Posted by pigeonfarmboy
Looks great. Definitely a shame you had to do all this work. If they leave the drive line parts that unfinished I wonder why they even take the time to provide them assembled. The scale hardware really looks awesome as well  |
Thanks. I cant wait to get some paint laid down over the chassis so it looks like a 1:1 military paint job! The driveline does concern me some. my biggest fear is the little brass planetary gears not holding up. They are going to need to handle some serious torque at times...
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Originally Posted by tc1cat
Great thread on the 'rebuild'  Glad that I didn't splurge and buy the Capo. The Cross-RC is enough of a challenge to keep running. I have broken 2 steering knuckles already with no real off-roading. 1 broke during assembly and the other broke at Indy during its maiden run. I had ordered more steering knuckles after reading a few build reports on the 8X8. Just glad that I had an unassembled 6X6 handy to get parts from. Noticed that they changed the type of plastic for the axles in the 6X6. Feels more like an engineered plastic rather than ABS in the 8X8.
Will keep watch to see what you say about the Cross-RC 8X8. |
They need to do something with their axles. The material mine are made out of is a joke. surprisingly its the rear axles that are giving me the hard time not the front. But out of only 2 short runs, I've had to superglue the shattered cases together, and now the 3rd axles ring and pinion mesh is jumping teeth due to the horrible mesh. I ordered some Yota 2 axles to swap out. I just gota figure out how I'm going to mount them. That and find some time to do it.