Here are some pics of my brushless XL. I purchased another 3 speed so that I could play until Kershaw's direct drive shows up. I'm not sure which way I'm going to mount the direct drive at this moment. I want to keep my lipo inside the frame with plans of going to 6s this spring. The road rash on the body is from backflips at high speed. The wheelie bar helped some but not enough.
I did shim all the play out of this current 3 speed, minus the shifting gears. I'm not sure I could. Seems odd that the shifting gears have so much wobble to them on the clutches.