<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; ">I got my new Monsoon XTR this week. I've heard this before but...THIS THING IS MASSIVE!  I couldn't believe the size of it.  I've only had 10th scale trucks before, and smaller one's at that.  As far as the quality goes I have to admit I was expecting far less, more of a blown up Volcano.  But this truggy is very impressive.  The thickness of the front and rear arms as well as the steering links and rear up-rights looks very durable.  The only weak spot that looks obvious is the rear camber link ends at the rear uprights.  I will probably mod these from some Traxxas Revo parts.<div>
</div><div>Did a Loc-tight tear down and checked everything out before running it.  The gear mesh was perfect.  When I removed the engine screws to add loctight they had some form of Chinese loctight already applied.  I only found 1 screw that I felt could have been tighter on the whole truck.  I also wasn't crazy about how the fuel lines were run so I re-routed them.  Removed the single stage covered air filter and replaced it with a two stage filter that would breathe.  Also added some zip ties to the head for rollover protection.  I finished up with some heat reflective tape inside the body.</div><div>
</div><div>Startup was a breeze.  To prime I could just pull the pullstart gently just enough to feel the piston make one revolution while holding my finger over the exhaust tip.  4-5 pulls and you could easily see the fuel had made it's way from the tank to carb.  Put the ignitor on and in 4 pulls it fired right up.  I actually turned out 1 turn on the high speed needle once it started, it didn't seem rich enough when it was running.  1 turn out gave me fuel sputtering out of the exhaust.  It ran it's first tank at idle no problem.</div><div>
</div><div>This thing is super loud!  It almost hurts your ears and crackles just like a 2 stroke bike.  </div><div>
</div><div>I completed 5 more tanks of break in today.  I've since turned in the low speed needle about an 8th of a turn.  The high speed needle was turned back to it's stock position on it's first figure 8 tank and since then I've turned it about a quarter more, it's still running very rich.  It's ready to be leaned out a little.  I'll go over the truck again once more and start seeing what it can do tomorrow.</div></div>