What have you guys done to stabalize the XL

[Gee]

Man I hope I didn't get one of those lemons that always has something going wrong with it. Another frustrating afternoon with my buddy Savage XL. Got home and tore it apart, took the engine out and we blew bubbles together. Happy little duck bubbles is now. No leaks on the motor. Put it back in and set the camber (or is it toe in) got it looking good. Put 40wt in all the shocks and removed the spacers except a 1/4" to take the slack out of hte springs. Put washer on all the balls and went out back to give it a go. I've been having problem getting this engine up to a decent temp. Read umpteen thousand ways to tune an engine over the last 5 days. Got myself going in every direction and confussed at which one I was trying to do. Haven't hit 200 since break in. Well I messed with it too much turning this and changing that, reseting it again, starting over, going back where it was good the other day, finally got it going fairly decent (not sure how) and it was starting to get dark so figured hell with it. Going to go for a walk with it running rich like it is. Then the one ball that I didn't wash came of of the steering link to the servo horn. Aaaarrrrghhhhhhh! Oh yeah, blown the front 16t bevel gear again. It was working fine until I adjusted the breaks and gave it a test stop on the lawn. Wasn't hard but heard the dreaded clicking coming from it. Damn! Searched for the cen diffs last night on ebay. Found one that was already up to 86.00 dollars. Going to have to get a new bulkhead for it. My aluminum tape around the ball bearings doesn't work once you get it off the stand.


Wanna trade Finnster?

What do you have your lrp set at right now? Maybe that will atleast give me a base to start from. I've tried the 3.75 HSN and 3.75 LSN that is in the lrp manual and can't even get it to start. Might be the gallon of sweat that was dripping off my forehead that got into the fuel or something.