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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 2:14 AM   
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Well I charged my battery changed the tires and it went like a rapped ape. Whew it was awesome. Then ten minutes later it lost power so I changed the battery. It still goes but only 2 mph. What is wrong with this thing? 2s lipo I have re synced the controller.  Reverse still seems to work. Please help


Your pinion gear off the motor probably came loose or your slipper needs to be tightened those are always the first things you check on a new xs. Loctite the grub screw on the pinion and check your slipper.

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 2:17 AM   
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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 2:42 AM   
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Holy crap. Just to get to the pinion gear you have to dismantle the whole thing?




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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 3:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		I got it apart but looks like the pinion is fine. Or is it? It lines up with the other gear in there. Sheesh what do I do? I'm gonna leave it apart untill I hear back

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 6:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Rustproofcorn, Jang did a good job of showing you how to get to it here.


If you are having problems with forward, but reverse works, unfortunately that sounds like an ESC issue. Alternatively they may not have fixed the diff shim issue, which is far easier to resolve than putting a pinion gear on (which is backwards compared to most RCs)

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 5:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey guys. I've browsed through this thread several times. Im about to buy my flux xs here in a few weeks. Just wanna go over a few things...

-What needs to be checked/tightened/added to the truck before running it?
-Any adjustments before first run?
-Is the stock steering servo that bad? i have ready to purchase, a futaba high torque servo.
-I've got ready to purchase Pro-Line Badlands. Should be better off-road than stock tires.

Am i all set to go with this beast?


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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 5:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey guys. I've browsed through this thread several times. Im about to buy my flux xs here in a few weeks. Just wanna go over a few things...

-What needs to be checked/tightened/added to the truck before running it?
-Any adjustments before first run?
-Is the stock steering servo that bad? i have ready to purchase, a futaba high torque servo.
-I've got ready to purchase Pro-Line Badlands. Should be better off-road than stock tires.
-Has the esc crapping out so quickly and easily been resolved yet?




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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 5:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		so last night i took out the tranny and motor. i ajusted the slipper clutch by tightening all the way then backing off a 1/4 turn. then i took off the pinion gear which was meshing but the grub screw was rather loose. i tighted the grub screw but no lock tight at this time since i have none. then i put it all together and it worked again like a raped ape but only for 5 minutes again. the difference this time is that it wont go forward or in reverse it just rev's the motor. would this be the pinion again?

Edit: i forgot to mention that the motor was extremly hot! i could tell because i was runing in about 3" of powder and the snow would drop onto the motor and sizzle.

Double Edit: i have the motor and tranny out. now the slipper clutch just spins freely. i guess i need to take the housing off?


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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 6:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		well i tighted the slipper clutch again and it worked again for a few minutes. i actually got some jumps in this time. now the truck still has plenty of power but has lost the front wheel drive. the rear still go like a raped ape. however the front dont do much. the front right wheel will spin really slowly at full throttle but the left does nothing. when i spin by hand  they dont both turn like they did. ugh this truck. i was just supposed to be able to run this thing out of the box. all the dog bones are there. i really dont know how or where to start with this.

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 8:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Check the pins on the hexs, I broke one on the first and it acted like yours, after that mine is fine. Best of luck!

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 9:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had a problem with my XS similar to this that drove me NUTS for a while.  Under throttle I could hear a clicking noise and I could tell that the rear wheels were not turning.  If I held it on the ground I could see the rear driveshaft and differential drive cup turning but the wheels weren't.  I had shimmed the diff, the ring and pinion were perfect and the hex pins were fine.  What it turned out being was that there was a lot of freeplay in the rear driveshaft, so it wasn't "pushing" on the drive cup for the pinion gear, so the pin inside the pinion gear was popping out and not turning the pinion.  I used some little pieces of fuel line tubing inside the cups and finally took care of it.


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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 9:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		here is what i found out. the pin in one of the dog bones was missing luckily the pin on the hub of my rustler was the same so i had that. and then i shimmed the diff because it wasnt quite making contact. i am putting it back together now. hopfully it works.

Edit: and it actually does work. i havent had it outside again but i have ran it in the house and it seems to be ok. i had to go to the hardware store for a couple screws that were stipped and use the pin from the rustler but i am back up and going. sheesh what a pain in the butthole.


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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 11:02 PM   
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here is what i found out. the pin in one of the dog bones was missing luckily the pin on the hub of my rustler was the same so i had that. and then i shimmed the diff because it wasnt quite making contact. i am putting it back together now. hopfully it works.

Edit: and it actually does work. i havent had it outside again but i have ran it in the house and it seems to be ok. i had to go to the hardware store for a couple screws that were stipped and use the pin from the rustler but i am back up and going. sheesh what a pain in the butthole.



Well next time you take the wheels off make sure you don't lose the pins.

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 1/31/2012 11:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		 maybe i said it wrong but i didnt lose a pin. the pin that was supposed to be in the dogbone on the dif side was missing. i am not sure it was ever there. or if it was how the heck did it fall out. anyhow i ran it again outside and it did really well untill i flew off a jump and it cart wheeled so hard that the battery box came open and the battery went flying. now i have to look to see if i caused any damage




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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 12:01 AM   
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 maybe i said it wrong but i didnt lose a pin. the pin that was supposed to be in the dogbone on the dif side was missing. i am not sure it was ever there. or if it was how the heck did it fall out. anyhow i ran it again outside and it did really well untill i flew off a jump and it cart wheeled so hard that the battery box came open and the battery went flying. now i have to look to see if i caused any damage





The only pin on the diff side is inside the diff. Is that what you are refering to? The other pin is the one that sits behind the hex hub.

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 12:05 AM   
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 maybe i said it wrong but i didnt lose a pin. the pin that was supposed to be in the dogbone on the dif side was missing. i am not sure it was ever there. or if it was how the heck did it fall out. anyhow i ran it again outside and it did really well untill i flew off a jump and it cart wheeled so hard that the battery box came open and the battery went flying. now i have to look to see if i caused any damage





The only pin on the diff side is inside the diff. Is that what you are refering to? The other pin is the one that sits behind the hex hub.


there is the one behind the hex hub yes. but there is a dog bone/drive shaft as well that has pins on each end. mine was missing the pin on the dif side.



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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 12:20 AM   
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 maybe i said it wrong but i didnt lose a pin. the pin that was supposed to be in the dogbone on the dif side was missing. i am not sure it was ever there. or if it was how the heck did it fall out. anyhow i ran it again outside and it did really well untill i flew off a jump and it cart wheeled so hard that the battery box came open and the battery went flying. now i have to look to see if i caused any damage





The only pin on the diff side is inside the diff. Is that what you are refering to? The other pin is the one that sits behind the hex hub.


there is the one behind the hex hub yes. but there is a dog bone/drive shaft as well that has pins on each end. mine was missing the pin on the dif side.





Are you refering to the pins in the ends of the axle like these?


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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 12:24 AM   
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those would be them. dog bones/drive shafts never heard them called axles i just thought those go into the axles



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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 1:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have had a problem with those pins coming out to. I ended up getting a set of hot racing CVD's I would say they work great but after about 5 packs on them one of them snapped today. I dont know if the hpi cvds are any better or if its just better to stick with dogbones.


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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 1:32 AM   
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those would be them. dog bones/drive shafts never heard them called axles i just thought those go into the axles




Have you tried to contact HPI about the problem?

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 1:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah I did and they were very nice. They said there gonna send me a dog bone and some screws that were stripped. The only trouble is they said there on back order and it will be a couple weeks before there In stock. Luckily I had a pin and I was able to procure some screws from a local hardware shop. I actually used a couple lipos now.

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 1:56 AM   
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I have had a problem with those pins coming out to. I ended up getting a set of hot racing CVD's I would say they work great but after about 5 packs on them one of them snapped today. I dont know if the hpi cvds are any better or if its just better to stick with dogbones.



I purchased the HPI CVD and they snapped pretty quickly too.  I would just suggest buying stock axles since they are fairly cheap compared to CVDs.

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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 2:02 AM   
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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 2:13 AM   
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RE: Official HPI Savage Flux XS thread... - 2/1/2012 3:32 AM   
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