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Yeah, mine was shifting way late and with the gearing, it didn't like pushing the big tires through the grass. Then again, I'm really used to electrics now... ALL THE TORQUE ALL THE TIME! Even with a perfectly running nitro, it takes me a couple tanks to get used to it again. Having to lead up...

Yeah, kind of got a bug up my butt to run nitro this spring. Probably partly to seeing your work on the MGT. Ran my 21TM revo a couple weeks ago and my SavageX last weekend. Man... I suck at tuning some times! The OS tuned up just great and ran perfect for a solid hour. The LRP30 in my X...

Yeah, the 20% vs 30% is different oil content I believe, but never really caused issues. I don't mix brands, just nitro percentages. Been a couple years since I bought nitro... brushless kind of took over. I just opened a jug last weekend that's been on my shelf for about 2 years.

When I started running 25%, I found that medium plugs worked a lot better than the hot ones I usually ran. Never tried 30% though. Many times my LHS had 20 and 30 but not 25, so I'd buy both, then mix them 50% in spare empty jugs. I only started using 25% because the manual for my first LRP...

I also run fast eddy bearings on everything. Just got a $50 order to stock back up after going through one of my nitro revos and stampede 4x4. Had some axle bearings that were pretty sloppy.

Yeah, that site works for some things when you know more specifics, like a part number or something. Never tried using it for forums though.

Yeah, never had that stuff. I was stoked when I got a bench vice and a mini sawsall!

Make shoulder bolts. Still not great to run steel against aluminum caps, but probably better than threads. Just put a few nuts on a bolt, throw it in a drill and run a file on it/sand paper as the drill spins to lathe the nuts down to a shoulder size you want. I've done that for quite a few things.

Yeah, I googled the header to see what you were dealing with. While the THS are thin... not sure they are thin enough. Odds are, your going to have to get a normal one and cut it just to end up with the ring that goes in the exhaust flange recess. Perhaps a 1/10 gasket, cut off everything but...

THS header gaskets are pretty thin.

What size are the inners vs the outers? I noticed the ones on my stampede don't last long, like the ones on the stock revo hubs. The inner bearing is thin and doesn't last as long. RPM carriers on the revo/t-maxx's help by allowing the inner bearing to be a larger one.

Try using a piece of bicycle innertube, glue the ends with CA so you have to stretch it a bit to fit around the head. It blocks wind going through and doesn't hold water like cloth does. Also doesn't add any radio interference using foil may cause. That's what I used to do. First I used a hose...

Yeah... I'd still take that over +2F all day and -10F at night, wind chill -20-30F... I know it gets way colder up North. I have family in Northern Minnesota. They see actual temps at -20F and worse!

Now that I have brushless, I won't even think about running a nitro when it's less than 50F out... ok, maybe 45F. Just easier to keep a solid tune when the ambient temp and wind going through the head isn't cooling it so fast. Before electric, I'd run nitro in the snow. I'd just use an old...

Supposed to be a high of +2 in Northern IL this weekend... I won't even run electric when it's below 30F. I'm far to old to stand out there and freeze. LOL!

The 3.3 t-maxx still runs telescoping plastic axles. They are just bigger now I think, like the revo has. The newest brushless revo has steel cvd's and larger diffs, e-revo VXL or ERBE 2.0. The v1 has the same sliders as the nitro revo's had. It just has a bar in the diff to try and make it a...

I know many use a marine grease on the ring/pinion because it's very sticky and tends to stay on the gears vs getting flung off or a path cut through. Is that syl-glyde similar? I really need to get some better grease. All I have is typical axle grease and it tends to get flug off/cut through...

Was probably to deal with the 2 different engines AE put on that truck, the big 8.0 (or some odd heli engine that if I remember right, sucked.) and the normal big block. I had tried RD Logics cvd's back in the day on my BB maxx. They weren't very good. The bone ears wore down fast. Same with...

For CVD pins, I usually just go to my local hardware store and in the small assorted screw boxes, they have hardened steel dowel pins of various sizes. Then I cut it to length and put a little divot where the set screw goes. The pins are usually in open boxes, so you can find one that fits your...