The stock shafts hold up pretty okay to the stock VXL system. I see no real need for the cvd's, unless you are going bigger power system.

My other 4x4 has the mmm 2650 and the stock driveline is starting to show signs of wear. Eventually I think I will switch over to revo shafts or something along those lines. Cheaper, and I wouldn't be too angry if they break, unlike those who have had tekno's and mip's break already.

I haven't yet broken any stock a arms, but once that happens I will most likely go to RPM.

As for the motor mount Mike has the FLM version in stock.

thats good to know, i ordered the cvd,s because i havent ever had a traxxas slider last me very long so it was a longjevity and stress part for me, i did find the KH mount late last night and ordered one, i went with KH over fastlane because i have alot of KH parts on my 1/8s and they are top notch, i plan on useing the fast lane center diff case but i wount be ordering that for a week or so, as for tekno's brakeing i havent herd of one and i am on alot of forums but i also know that tekno has great customer service so im not worried. im sure i will end up useing a 1509 or 1512 latter and i know im planning alot of speed runs as well as some track time. so this is going to be an all around build for me and it will hopefully keep me from takeing my carbon 8ight out bashing:lol:

Well I had an anti clamatic break yesterday. I was launching the Slash off a home made ramp for probably 20 minutes straight. I got it upwards of 20 feet skyward, nothing broken. So thinking the LVC was coming up, I decided to take a few WOT runs, then just as I was going to call it a day, thinking the LVC was just around the bend. It flipped into a barrel roll on a hard brake/turn and the right rear carrier broke. I felt so ashamed. Nothing broke all that time while air bound, nothing at all when it noise dived into the ground or flipped frontward, backward, and sideways. The achelles was that damn last little flip at braking speed onto its lid. What nonsense.



J/K :) it was a long and meaningful bash, would of made Nick proud. RPM carriers here I come.

I just completely FLMed my DT on my slash 4x4 equipped with a MMM and 2650 on 4s, FLM motor mount kit with diff and alu diff cups all the way out to the axles also.
Other than straight torquing the heads off the FLM axles and then also experiencing axle contact on the front carriers that leads to retainer & pin loss everything held up great after grinding a lil aluminum off the front carriers.

Hope FLM has something beefier planned for the axle heads on there part # FLM-25515
If not I may be calling daily for replacements.
Only got 1 full run in and it was in a flat grassy field haven't even really begun to bash it.

Now that FLM has a upgraded Center diff cup can I run a Center diff with my MMM 1515 1.5d .I allready have the KingHedz motor mount plus their spacer also.

pics?

I would snap some pics but my Kodak C613 cant take a close up to save a life.

Mine isn't too healthy, this is after a weekend of bashing.

I blew 2x VXLs and my MMM ESC! :(

The damage also done was:
Rear shocktower
Rear diffcasing
Rear RPM arm (bent, not snapped)
2x Center Driveshaft split
Rear RPM Bumper
LOTS of driveshafts, lol



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But that's what you get when you try jumping ponds and vert ramps, lol.

Sweet! That is some carnage to brag about.

Now that is what I am talking about. Pretty stellar stuff Nick. I am not worthy!

Wow, how did you manage to bend the center drive shaft?

My videos can be seen here:
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...t=26529&page=2

A day like this usually does it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2DsDM3Yzs

lol :)

those vidz are so much fun to watch!

Let me ask you this: Why don't you have a monster truck? A savage Flux would take way more abuse than the Slash's, and handle better too!

I have both, and your statement isn't correct.....on both counts.....

Well I have had both too, I even though the slash is really tough, it's kind of like throwing a piece of plast around. But that IMO. Adn I think the savage has better handling characterstics for bashing, the weight helps a lot.

4x4 servo saver
 

anyone else ever notice how crappy/weak the 4x4 slash servo saver is? been fighting on -power push since ive been racing this thing for about a year or so. was doing some matinence/cleaning today and was shocked to see how little force it takes to make the servo saver slip. added some shims to tightem it up but it is still pretty pathetic in my opinion. will probably end up just gluing the stupid thing together but just wanted to see if i was the only lucky one to run into this problem.

looked around and found an aluminum adjustible unit from hot racing (HR) for $30. comes with an aluminum draglink too for less slop. deciding whether or not its worth the money to fix the poor design or just glue it down.....

i picked up the one from ST racing and sofar so good, no problems and the last time i tore the truck down it wasnt showing any ware, i have mine set pretty tight since i am useing a hs7955tg for steering, its overkill but thats what we do here:intello:

Well after a month of axle twisting and breaking within 5 minutes of a fresh pack I Finally discover after doing a complete diff rebuild that my FLM Axle cups in my slash 4x4 are causing my diffs to "spool" intermittently and causing extreme torque damage to my axles.
All new internals and all.
I sheared heads off FLM alxles,sheard MIPs and destroyed plastics :surprised:.
After returning to stock plastic diff cups I FINALLY got to run 2 complete battery packs :party:.
You can see in the cups where the side spider gears are grinding into the cases.

Is/was there a bad batch or am I a lucky winner of a one off chicken dinner?
lol.
Haven't contacted FLM as of yet about the diff cups altho I do not expect any troubles of getting this remedied.
Now to ship it all back.:P
@ least the center diff and mount are holding up flawlessly :yipi:.

I have 2 center diff al cups from FLM that I cannot get the gears to sit in correctly no matter what I do..(ordered 2 by mistake) anyone else have this prob. For now I went back to the plastic cup only in the center

i have one thats bad too, when the gears are in the plastic case they are fine but when in the FLM case they bind, FLM hasnt returned any on my emails so im alittle ireked too

They are probably at IHobby right now.