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Hi all, new to the hobby....just wondering if anyone has as mch bad luck as i do.... nitro engine break-in went wonderful. I took my truck down to a local campground to drive around right after i completed break-in. I was gonna try to get a nice tune with lots of room to test my engine tune, suspension adjustments, steering adjustments, etc. start my truck...make one lap and it bogs and dies. So i make an adjustment, pull the pull-start and to my surprise the string comes out. This is no big deal since i enjoy tinkering, I pack everything up and head home, pull everything apart to fix the pull start and realize what a pain it is to re-coil the starter. remove coil and start looking at other options... I discover that losi made this model with a pull-start AND spin-start option. So I wait till next day and go buy the Spin-start wand and a few other necessities (fuel bottle, receiver charger) and this gets me back on the road throughout the week before work i run this beast of a truck and get it tuned real nice. Now I get to this weekend. I loaded everything up saturday morning and headed out to my moms house (shes got about 4 acres to play on and I didnt feel like driving all the way to the campground again). I get out there, fire the truck up, run it for about 10 minutes before a slight miscalculation at high speed sends me barrelling into a semi-hidden log. My truck catapults and barrel rolls before finally coming to an awkward landing. As it turns out i broke my upper and lower A-arms on the "driver's" side front. Pack everything up with my head hung in dissapoint and head home. Once i get home i assess the situation and determine all I need are the A-arms, so i head down to the lhs, and upgrade to some nice, beefy RPM arms with adjustable camber. I just got those installed and am now patiently waiting until tomorrow morning to make sure my truck still drives straight. These two set backs make me wonder what else I'm going to have to replace next time i really get to run it. The point behind all of this is that even with these problems and mistakes I am enjoying myself greatly and am looking forward to a long productive future in this hobby.

Any tips or advice for a new guy?

anyone from the lafayette, IN area?

P.S. sorry for the long post and lack of paragraphing, I didn't even realize how much I had typed until I just looked at it and i really don't feel like going through and adding paragraphs. lol