Greetings tankers

I have been running this monster outside and have noticed that the tank has plenty of power but lacks in traction.
When climbing obstacles it will stand up on its rear end then the tracks loose traction.
The inner hull has tons of room so I'am think of adding some lead weights to the front.
I know the tank can handle the extra weight because I took my neighbor's 4 yr old boy for a ride across the yard.
I'll keep you posted on how this work.

hello dynamike if you have the same 21st 1/9/ scale abrams m1a2 purchased at wal-mart? words of caution as for i added more weight to bottom hull i have already done this and yes it will give you better traction and will go just about anywhere [&o] but the gear boxes are not able to withstand the strain so i have found out the hard hard way i made the mistake of tring to run it thru rough terrain as in backyard with sticks rocks ect. after the breakdown stripped gears i look into the gearboxes and found that they are only made of what i call pot-metal cast aluminum and are only 3/4" dia. and have very soft shafts for gears to run on the rear sprocket s are 3" dia. and gears are 3/4" do the math? and yes i tried to find replacment gears the same dia. and no. of teeth but not luck[:@] any way i still like the tank short of shortcommings i have already replaced gearboxs with bigger metal gears from linear accuators waiting for new radio controller to finish it up and get it back running again as i said be very carful where you run it and not to bind up tracks,sprockets at all or it will strip gear boxes tankmandan

also dynamike if you do strip a gear box i mite have extra replacment gears depending on witch one goe's out fell free to contact me on forum good tanking

One step that I have always taken with these cheaper gear boxes ( almost all the 1/16th HL tanks) was to align the gears with spacers.
Most of the gears are only making about 65-70% contact.
With spacers you can increase that.
This gives you some protection against stripping gears.

That is an EXCELLENT tip!!!!!!, I will check all of mine the next time I open them,and make sure they "mesh" properly.
Really, that is good advice!