Savage Flux and RPM arms: A warning

Hey all, felt this needed to be brought to all current and future Flux owners as this issue will probably become alot more apparent as more peeps are buying Flux's and upgrading them, most obviously including RPM parts, especially the arms.

After my stock arms broke just after a few weeks of bashing I decided it was time to go RPM to prevent another disaster like this:




Seeings how RPM has such a good rep to prevent breakages like that from happening of course I went all out with new RPM arms on my Flux



However, upon installation I noticed immediately that all my arms started to bind and hardly even move in some case as the fitment of the Flux with the RPM arms for some reason wasn't quite as good as the stock arms

Being as one to not back down from a minor issue, I decided it was time to pick up a new dremel and grind away some minor plastic and all would be well.



Well, two days over the weekend was what it took to get these arms to fit and work properly. I was astonished at how much I had to grind away for the arms to flex and move. I had to enlarge the pin holes as well with a bit as they also were binding terribly. It took me so long cause I had to continually go back and forth checking the fitting, grind, check fitting, grind some more. Repeat..... All hinge point area's had to have this done.





Needless to say, NOW my arms move up and down nice and freely but damn, what an assache to get them to that point. I certainly hope these things don't fail on me as there is no way in hell im gonna go through that grind session again. Much as I love RPM products, this was definently was not amusing to me.

Just a general warning to all so you know what you may be getting yourself into.