LOSI LST XXL Conversion ideas

[Chadworkz]

Originally Posted by jpoprock

They mount the exact same way the Pro Line's do.

No, Pro-Line's do not mount like 1/8 scale hexes with a grub-screw through the axle end holding the cross-pin tightly in place...they have a groove in the back that fits over the cross-pin in the axle, then a 5mm lock-nut goes onto the axle-stub, tightening the hex against the criss pin...completely different than the 1/8 or CEN style.

[mistercrash]

I did a little work on the truck this morning. I shimmed my suspension to get rid of the slop. My battery boxes were great but for the larger lipos, I had to tuck the wires inside pretty tight in order to close the doors. I was afraid that bending the wires to much numerous times would damage them in the long run so I made an opening on the doors to let the wires stick out without putting stress on them.



For the people who have been running LSTs for a while, I noticed that the shock towers have a lot of flex. Should I worry about that or just leave it like it is. I'm thinking a piece of 3 mm CF would reinforce the ends of the shock towers where the shocks caps are.



Just an idea of how my mind works sometimes. My wife is having her period so I'm thinking: ''Why not put wings on my chassis'' Yup! My mind works in mysterious ways. Here's what I'm thinking. The battery box brackets I made are working well but it's a lot of hardware that was added to the truck. In order to minimize the added weight, I thought of having wings on the upper chassis plate to reinforce the battery box ends with just small and simple aluminum angles to secure the box to the wings. I know it would work, I just don't feel like doing it right now. Maybe later in the summer if the brackets ever fail, which I don't think they will.

[Bondonutz]

Originally Posted by Chadworkz

No, Pro-Line's do not mount like 1/8 scale hexes with a grub-screw through the axle end holding the cross-pin tightly in place...they have a groove in the back that fits over the cross-pin in the axle, then a 5mm lock-nut goes onto the axle-stub, tightening the hex against the criss pin...completely different than the 1/8 or CEN style.

For the aftershock,LST1 this is correct, for the LST2,XXL it is like the buggy axles where the pin goes through w/grub set screw due to a different design.