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Old 04-16-2008 | 09:14 PM
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Default GST cartwheel

Finaly had the chance to run my truck today. Servos went nuts after I started it up so shut her down and flipped the crystals and fixed it (thanks TRD[sm=thumbup.gif]). First time I turned the wheel on the controler the spring broke and it clicks and wont center, tryed not to let the slow me down. Next I broke my temp gun, nothing bad, battery wont say in and have to keep pushing it back into place. Did a few jumps in my normal spot and was getting good air, roll cage took off a few feet but I wan't no where near full speed so just need a longer runway(truck wasn't up to full temp so I don't try to hard till then). Plumbers tape kept my servo saver in place, only thing that went good. Since it was hard to keep the truck centered and I was trying a new jump I came off the jump a little off and ended up doing 3 carwheels and a flip or 2 before landing almost upside down. Ran over to the truck, looked at my gear mesh everything was fine so hit the gas and nothing but a very quick high rev. Crap. Thought I lost the grub screw since when I picked the truck up I had front wheel drive. Took the truck back to my car thinking in a few min's I'll be beating the snot out of my truck again and saw that I killed one of the drive cups on the rear diff[:'(]. Sucks since now my truck is going to be holding the carpet down in my room for a few weeks or months untill some funds come my way.

Roll cage saved my engine but helped kill the cup I think. At least it was fun seeing the truck take the spill it did, was about 6 feet off the ground when I knew this was going to end bad, truck bounced about 3 feet back up into the air from the first hit. Wish I had the video camera today, would of been nice to see that crash again.

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