Suspension Awakening

[JThiessen]

After looking it over, it actually looks correct to me.

We went to our normal bashing area (housing development that seems to be on hold) this morning, and low and behold they smoothed out all the dirt...AND hauled in a larger pile or crushed rock! SO our normal jump, which used to be only about 2 feet tall, is now a 5 footer. After about 20 minutes, the Revo came limping back to me with a snapped off shock rod on the front left. A quick call and trip to one of the LHS, I had a new set of GTR's with Ti rods. I replaced the broken one, and I could immediatly tell there was a difference in rebound (flipped it on its lid turning around more than usual). So I think maybe my old shocks might be past their useful limit.

A few more jumps, and it limped in again with a broken push rod on the left front. I'm guessing my balance is off on that side also - or the impact that broke the shock also stressed the rod and it just took a little longer to actually snap. Now I'm in the market for new rods. The lightweight aluminum ones that I have are obviously not strong enough (speed kills!). Does anyone have similar experience with rods? Do I need to go to Lunsfords? I see Integy is releasing some titanium ones http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXTPL9&P=7. The nice thing is that they dont look to be specific to a certain P1, P2, P3 setting like the Lunsfords. On the way home, I picked up a set of stocker steel ones to use for now - I dont think the added weight is really going to be an issue.