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ORIGINAL: tuclai

K223,

Im planning on getting some good pics this weekend. The current ones are just real quick ones that I have put together. But the MGT and Savage XL looks very close in length. The XL maybe just a tad bit longer but very hard to tell. The does have a wider track, but once I put on the hub extenders on the MGT it should be as wide if not wider than the Savage XL. The LST 2 is shorter than both of them but its wide cause of the extenders. The New Tmaxx is bigger than last year's TMaxx but it is still quite a bit smaller than the rest of the trucks.

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ORIGINAL: tuclai

Rabbit you asking me for the link to wheel extenders? All the Proline Wabash wheels that are 23mm and all the beadlocks (except their Chyene Narrow) will kill your steering without axle extenders. The turnbuckle steering mod of shaving near the pivot ball joints will not fix this problem. The reason is because the actual turnbuckle itself will hit the inner diameter of the wheels before it gets the full steering. Proline does make a Wabash with offsets that may work for our MGT's however the offset ones only come in 17mm hex. Proline hex adapters (I have them will not fix the problem either). I ordered these for the MGT, however do not buy them until I can confirm it works! Its actually for the TMaxx but I know TMaxx and MGT have same axle diameter and dimensions. So hopefully it will work. I got the Integy axle extenders for my LST2, but Integy dont make them for MGT or TMaxx. So hopefully the ones Im getting from NewEra will work for the MGT.

http://www.neweramodels.com/item.cgi?session_id=vxogxhmbiolrmhbgwpmyeowtgusoolhp&part_id=2898

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ORIGINAL: forlorm22

Everyone says heat cycle method is the best. Thats all I have ever used and its what my local hobby shop does as well. You can find all sorts of info on heat cycle on the forums here, youtube, and just about anyplace else lol.
I just ordered the full proline bead lock kit (adapters, moabs, wheels everything). I got the wheels and am waiting for the adapters and tires and stuff for next week. From what I have been reading here these will not work with the mgt 8.0??? Please tell me it works lol. I didn't get the narrow rock crawler ones, I got the normal monster truck stuff. IF it doesn't work, what exactly does it do and what do you need to fix it? This is gonna be a bummer if it wont work lol. 140$ down the drain?? I hope not. =(

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ORIGINAL: forlorm22

So do you need those extenders along with the proline adapters? or instead of the adapters? I'm using a mgt 8.0 so its stock 22 mm. Wish they would have made it easier on us and just made a common size lol. Correct me if I'm wrong but it says thats all 4 extenders so you should just need to order one package right? I'm gonna try the proline stuff I suppose and see how it goes but that really stinks if it really takes away steering lol. I'm a basher, that truck hasn't ever been on a track yet but I like to be able to turn fairly tight and was thinking about adding the steering mod and a different steering servo when I can afford it, guess maybe I should have done that before I did the tires and rims but I liked the look.

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ORIGINAL: tuclai

K223,

NewEra is in US. I live in California, I think they are somewhere in Indiana or somewhere around there. Takes about 3 days.

forlorm22,

If you have not bought the Proline adapters, then save your money I am telling you I have them and they are just sitting in my spare parts box.

So I broke all my cars in this weekend. I would say that the MGT 8.0 and LST 2 has the best engine layout design. The way they are positioned it is easy to use the roto start and easy to make sure the engine piston is on BDC after you stop the truck. LST 2 has great and fast steering. Savage XL seems like HPI really forgot something. They extended the chassis on the rear of the truck but did not extend the rotostart shaft! You have to like angle it in a weird way and go through between the shocks to start the truck. Kindda awkward. And I hate the safety feature of the starter, when the engine hydro lock you would have take the whole thing back out, move it a bit and try to pop the safety button back out. AE and Losi's rotos dont have that problem! The Savage XL comes with an engine heatsink protector, but it seems like they forgot to extend it for the longer chassis! So you cant use it! Throttle servo of Savage is pretty bad, its too weak to pull the throttle open and hold with the return spring. The servo keeps twitching. The TMaxx's servo had problems with Futaba's spectrum receiver right off the bat. Voltage issues. Well anyways, after doing troubleshooting turns out its the steering servo. So it was keep the stock receiver with stock servo, or keep the Futaba spectrum receiver and change the servo. I did the later, a Hitec 340 oz servo! Wow, makes me want to get this servo for all my trucks now. One thing I hate about the TMaxx, the way the engine is placed with that huge pipe they added, its tough to make sure the engine is on BDC!

All in all breakin for the MGT 8.0 was the toughest (with settings from the manuals), however if you use the settings AE gives you breakin was easy. All the trucks broke in fairly easy. I dont know if the MGT was so tough back then cause it was my first RC, so did not know the little tricks to getting the engine up and running when problems occured. I will be taking the trucks out next weekend to bash.

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ORIGINAL: Gwypaas

Is the method this video shows a good way to break this engine in?:
Link to youtube

Atleast that uses some sort of heat cycle and I've heard people saying that Idling damages your engine more then running it at low rpm because you want to put a little bit of stress on your engine but not to much.