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Well, like computer paper is about right. Although not required...

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k when i get my sper geare:D

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to keep your body from smacking doun on the mounts when you land off a jump put little pices of fule line between the mount and the body.


If you find yourself always running out of the plastic shock spacers use Zip Ties in place of the spacer.


When watterprofing servos with a baloon, the hole you put in it for the servo horn to attach, put a little dob of greese on there to keep watter form entering. And some greese where the wires come out too is nice.


If you keep breaking a particuliar part on your vechile ex: a spindle, take one off a similar car but diffrent make and costomize it to work. Hey I got xxx-nt hub carriers and hubs/spindles on my traxxas rustler.

When a part breaks out in the field it can usually be fixed with CA, mechanics wire/paper clips, or rubber bands. I mean I broke the top part of a shock cap and held it back on with rubber bands and it worked mint.

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Speaking of... I have a gt front end for a while... worked pretty well I might add.

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Fuel tank o-ring tip: (I know it works on my NEST, but I don't know about other fuel tanks)

The other day the o-ring was not sealing properly on my tank. Instead of replacing the o-ring... try to tighten down the screw on the underside of the cap. This will compress the o-ring and cause it to increase the width of the o-ring... which in turn tightens the fit. I tightened my screw 2 full turns over 2 months ago and my tank hasn't spilled any fuel out of the top and it has maintained the proper seal ever since.

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After trying to start your NEST(or any other), and then realizing it wasnt even primed(blue fuel line,argg), always make sure you take off the glow plug starter before putting your finger over the exhaust and yanking to prime it. Just trust me on that one.

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lol hot fuel [:'(] feel bad for ya i take it off because i dont like wasting battiries

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I havwe an X-C and Sometimes its anoying to put the body on because of the excess wire sticking out because it bends. What Im gonna do is fold that excess wire downward and then shrink some shrinkwrap over it and the wire cover.

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How many anntena tubes have you all broken? Try this: right where the tube(or slighty below) exits the body, cut it(the tube, not the wire). Then take about one and one quarter inch of fuel line and slide it over the two sections of the tube to hold it together. When you car rolls, the fuel line will do all of the bending thus saving the anntena tube.

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that sounds good :D i would do swrink rap it holds better

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yes thats not bad shrink wrap would hold better but not as tough as fuel line. Maybe some shrink wrap on the end of the fuel line. HHHMMMMMMMMMM???????????????

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it would melt maby???? i dont know my hose holds good

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I put shrink wrap on it, it is thik and will never brake. and the shrink wrap also goes over the little part of the reciever box that sticks out.

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ok this is a good one shock boots take a water balloon cut a small hole on the bottom and cut the top rim off then take spring off slip it over the shock body and bottom part the cut a small needle size hole on side so air can move put back together and you have a good shock boot i will get pic:D;)

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more pic:D (PM me for more help on my shock boots wasn't my idea got it out of a magazine)

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i wnt thrue wet grass today and my shock is clean:D and last night i filled my shocks with 40 wt oil its so nice on the landings:D :D my next post will be on my home mad ramps :D:D

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ok people here are the ramps ive made there is an easy way and a hard way
the pic with red i put a block of wood there so the screws didnt go up threw the ramp if you look you will under stand the one with the handle is the harder on and the one with the crate is the ezy way lol the one wit the red has a door hing so it is adjustable and you can go both ways its up to all of ya for what ramps you like
you dont need to put that block there if you want to spend 10 min wit dremal and take the tops off it just helped aand wit out block it folds up flat:D im might do that when i have some time well enjoy

PM me for more help with the ramps like instructions:D

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here is the hard one to make[:@] enjoy:D

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my ramps work great the brake stuff:eek:

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If your recoil freewheels then put a hole in the top and bottom of the recoil case then shoot some carb cleen doun in there every time you are done for the day. That will cleen all the excess pil off the one way bearing. unless you have a mach .15 engine where the one way bearing is in the crank case. or a similar engine.

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i cn pop the starter off and grease it ;)

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i Mailed this tip to rc driver magazine and they put it in and I got a 3 month free subcription. after you fill your shocks and your waiting for the bubbles to rise just put the shock in a test tube rack while you fill the other ones.

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Dont pee into the wind or youll get wet. Words to live by lol

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finally got the evader running this morning. i believe that the carb adjustments and the glow plug was the culprit. thank you to all who helped. any way it was running good and then i lost power to the rear wheels. fearing the worst i took it apart and realized that the pin in the cv joint fell out. i had no replacement so i took a small picture nail and cut it to size. fired right back up and was off and running again.

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i saw this old guy do this..

to get a better grip on your retainers, hold it with 2 pliers and bend the round section up. that way its not resting on the body and you can get a very easy grip on it.
its easy and obvious, but worth a million bucks to my fat fingers..