I just recently had the opportunity to run this rig (I know, not much time to play). Brother in law and I took my ramps and my 4 trucks (Flux, Muggy, 2 Slash 4x4) and his FLM Maxx out to a school field.
First truck I ran was the Flux. I was also using my new G3 3S 6K packs (they are a VERY tight fit in these cases....) so I was hoping to get a good run on them. About 6 jumps, and 10 minutes of run time, I noticed the rear end sitting kinda funny. Pulled it in and voila! - all 4 screws attaching the FLM towers were gone. Later inspection showed that the screws had just come out, not pulled or sheared, thankfully. I must not have put loctite on those screws. Anyway, more inspection showed some badly bent shock shafts and leaking shocks. Sorry, no pics of the carnage, I've been too lazy to get fresh batteries in the camera (and busy - got bathroom remodel done, and had a water main leak that I had to dig a trench for...yuk!).
Since I've done this conversion to LST shocks, I have had nothing but problems with the truck, and all are related to the shocks/FLM parts. It doesn't jump near as well as it used to (can't even get close to doing a mid air back flip anymore) and with my limited ability to run it, I want to take it back to "stock".
So I pulled off the rear FLM/LST set up completely, and put all the stock hardware back in. One thing I noticed, the diff mesh sure feels a lot nicer in the FLM case. I move the shims all over the place on the plastic, and just could not get it to be as smooth as it felt in the FLM.
On the front, I decided to keep the FLM case (spur of the moment decision) #1) because of the feel of the diff, and #2) to help with keeping the front end down a little, which was one of my frustrations with the stock set up.
I'm also adding the HPI sway bar kit to the truck. I found that the FLM diff cases and the sway bar kit are not compatible, and had to do some significant modifications to both parts to get them installed. I'll notify FLM of the issue, and hopefully they can accomodate that in the future.
I'm trying two different things to keep dirt out of the diffs also - I put some heavy auto grease around the inspection hole on the rear, and I used a light coat of silicone on the front.
Last change was swapping out the servo for a HI-tech 5990 (I think that's the number....older model?). Hopefully that will solve some of my steering quirks that I've seen since it was new.
Yes, I'll post up some pics later if I get time....
