EP Savage X build

[brushlessboy16]

sounds like the shimming is off... might need to make it a little tighter to et rid of the noise.

[Joey]

Well I took the rear diff out and put 2 shims between the pinion (? smaller gear of the 2) and the bearing it spins on to keep it pressed more against the big gear (bevel?). This seemed to kill about 50% of the noise, though it still makes a little. Its much better than before so Im happy and am just going to leave it as is. The front still needs it but Im in no mood to take the front apart to get to it right now haha.. (even though they are easy access diffs, my warhead tower mounting bracket is in the way and its a pain to get off...)

The shims I used werent the right size (too big diameter) but they arent big enough to make it a problem... hope not anyway!

[Joey]

So I decided to mount the battery trays just barely below the CD plate, but just barely above the skid plates. So again if the truck bottoms out the battery trays will be fine, but if I curb the center part it will only hit the platic trays and not the CD plate, at least thats the idea. There will only be about 1 mm to spare on either side if this goes right. This is the only drawback to the way I decided to make this setup, but I dont plan on doing any rediculous bashing. Im going to be pretty careful with it, too big of an investment to trash around.

Heres an idea of what I was saying.



The extra bonus is that it gets the batteries REALLY low on the chassis. All the weight will be very low on this truck to Im hoping itll almost be a Savage Muggy when its all said and done haha...

[Joey]

Got the motor plate pretty much done. If I need to drill out the hole a little more for the medusa it wont be a problem.