RE: .28 in a funfactor? oh dear....
We must have been posting at the same time I didn't even see your post on breakages. Is that a common place for them to break? This is my first set breaking (thats what I get for racing with a 1/5 scale) and if it is I wonder how hard it would be to strengthen that area.
As far as dogbones in the front go, I like to turn corners. The Savage is setup to use dogbones but I think the MT2's axle stubs wouldn't live all that long, even if they were modded.
Are you using them?
rolland