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Today our bash crew got one truck larger. It was a Savage .21 (El Pirata), a T-Maxx 2.5 (Pirata's roommate) and the SkyMaxx (T-Maxx w/Fantom).
We found a great place to play (video to come a little later), and proceeded to break all of our trucks.
First the 2.5 sheared the front end off of his truck running into a ditch (about 1 foot deep). The video has a nice shot of it going boom. His damages: two chassis braces, four screws for the bulkheads (he runs aluminum bulks), and a steering post. After getting everything he needed to get his T running again, his battery for the EZ start died (one more good reason to get a pull start)
Next came Pirata's Savage. I'm liking what I see. Good speed. Needs a wider stance for more stability, but overall pretty damn nice truck (just not Pirata-proof). He managed to take a pretty good jump and stick the landing. Problem is he had not heard of the fuel tank/rear shock tower mod...sooo, his rear shock tower poked a hole about the size of a dime in his fuel tank. Nothing a bit of duct tape and a piece of foam didn't fix, but get this....he manages some how to break his radio's antenna in half. His damages: one fuel tank, a little time to reverse the screw on his shock tower, and one radio antenna.
Finally came the SkyMaxx. Not sure if it happened prior to getting there or not, but I managed to totally crush into non-existance one of the axle bearings on my T. This lead to excessive play on that one axle. End result was throwing the dogbone on that axle everytime I took some air. More frustrating than anything else. My damages: One axle bearing.
I almost forgot to mention, all of our trucks were out of commission in the first tank and about ten minutes of running. This was a really short bash session.
Now, the playground...I am fond of bashing at construction sites. I check to see if they are posted, and if they are not, I play. Today, we are all wrenching on our trucks trying to decide what to do....and this total bitch drives up and starts to scream at us about being on private property and how she would have us arrested if we didn't leave. While, I'm sure, she was well within her rights as the property owner or their representative...she didn't have to be the ignorant bitch that she was. I mention that there are no signs anywhere that mark the land as posted. She fires back that they are all over. On my way out, I notice a sign about 40 feet off the ground on a tree (in a location that only Paul Bunyan might notice not somewhere a person at driver's height might notice). Beneath the nearly opaque florescent orange paint, one can barely make out that it says no trespassing. The only other sign I saw (and there was not way we would have seen it from the direction we entered) was buried deep in the scrub brush on the side of the road as we were leaving. Needless to say, I was summarily pissed off...gave her a small piece of my mind as we left and continued to fume about it the rest of the day.
As you can see, I'm still a bit torqued by the whole episode with the lady from hell. Anyway, the end of the story is a happy one. We end up making a pass at two hobby shops; we get all the parts we need for less than fifty bucks for all of us. After about thirty minutes of wrenching in my driveway, all trucks are up. Pirata still has some tuning/fuel flow issues with his .21, but for the most part today we walked away clean.
AND WE HAD FUN, TOO!
We found a great place to play (video to come a little later), and proceeded to break all of our trucks.
First the 2.5 sheared the front end off of his truck running into a ditch (about 1 foot deep). The video has a nice shot of it going boom. His damages: two chassis braces, four screws for the bulkheads (he runs aluminum bulks), and a steering post. After getting everything he needed to get his T running again, his battery for the EZ start died (one more good reason to get a pull start)
Next came Pirata's Savage. I'm liking what I see. Good speed. Needs a wider stance for more stability, but overall pretty damn nice truck (just not Pirata-proof). He managed to take a pretty good jump and stick the landing. Problem is he had not heard of the fuel tank/rear shock tower mod...sooo, his rear shock tower poked a hole about the size of a dime in his fuel tank. Nothing a bit of duct tape and a piece of foam didn't fix, but get this....he manages some how to break his radio's antenna in half. His damages: one fuel tank, a little time to reverse the screw on his shock tower, and one radio antenna.
Finally came the SkyMaxx. Not sure if it happened prior to getting there or not, but I managed to totally crush into non-existance one of the axle bearings on my T. This lead to excessive play on that one axle. End result was throwing the dogbone on that axle everytime I took some air. More frustrating than anything else. My damages: One axle bearing.
I almost forgot to mention, all of our trucks were out of commission in the first tank and about ten minutes of running. This was a really short bash session.
Now, the playground...I am fond of bashing at construction sites. I check to see if they are posted, and if they are not, I play. Today, we are all wrenching on our trucks trying to decide what to do....and this total bitch drives up and starts to scream at us about being on private property and how she would have us arrested if we didn't leave. While, I'm sure, she was well within her rights as the property owner or their representative...she didn't have to be the ignorant bitch that she was. I mention that there are no signs anywhere that mark the land as posted. She fires back that they are all over. On my way out, I notice a sign about 40 feet off the ground on a tree (in a location that only Paul Bunyan might notice not somewhere a person at driver's height might notice). Beneath the nearly opaque florescent orange paint, one can barely make out that it says no trespassing. The only other sign I saw (and there was not way we would have seen it from the direction we entered) was buried deep in the scrub brush on the side of the road as we were leaving. Needless to say, I was summarily pissed off...gave her a small piece of my mind as we left and continued to fume about it the rest of the day.
As you can see, I'm still a bit torqued by the whole episode with the lady from hell. Anyway, the end of the story is a happy one. We end up making a pass at two hobby shops; we get all the parts we need for less than fifty bucks for all of us. After about thirty minutes of wrenching in my driveway, all trucks are up. Pirata still has some tuning/fuel flow issues with his .21, but for the most part today we walked away clean.
AND WE HAD FUN, TOO!
