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[ksrichard]

More likely my fault. wrong post. I had them on my vxl. A lot of tire spinning. Stil have less than 150 in it. Ill be a little more careful with next set. Will acetone remove the stock glue? Or is there something that will work faster without harming rims or the finish. Will shoe goo work to glue on new tires? Or
Should i use something else? Thanks

 

[Greywolf74]

I've never used acetone myself but from what I've read it works really well at neutralizing the glue but what it will do to the finish on your rims I can't say.

If you dont have access to tire glue use regular old superglue. Shoe Goo will not work very well.

 

[hamz9561]

Acetone will also eat the chrome on the wheels. It's pretty nasty stuff. Super glue will work fine for tires. I'd recommend the really thin stuff as it works its way into the bead better, IMO. I still prefer beadlocks when I can find them for a particular vehicle.

 

[ksrichard]

Back to this thread for a minute. Would the rear arms of posted rusty fit a newer vxl? They dont look as beefy. It should work for a quick fix.

 

[Greywolf74]

As far as I know all the arms are the same. At least the Nitro and VXL rustys have the same arms and so does the 2WD stampede. They should work just fine.

 

[ksrichard]

Thanks. I thought they would. Off tomorrow. Gonna replace all front bearings and change rear arms. Somethings slowing me down. No way I'm hitting 70. I even bought a faster pinion gear.Front right wheel bearings are shot always rusty liquid around them. That should help.

 

[Greywolf74]

you're not gonna hit 70MPH with the Rusty without some extensive mods despite what the box says. A stock VXL running 76/31 gearing and decent onroad tires may hit 55-60 but the motor will overheat fast running that gearing.

 

[ksrichard]

New motor? Esc upgrade I've just changed pinion 1. size faster

 

[Greywolf74]

Using a Castle 3800kv 4pole on 3S with a Hobbywing 120A ESC, GRP tires (which will require you to buy 17mm wheel adapters), and running a 36T mod 1 spur and a 29T pinion (which will require a 5mm-1/8in reducer), and Mod out the rear half of the body so it does trap wind you can get it up in the 70-80MPH range. The motor will get hot after a few runs though and it will have to cool down before you can do more.

You could run a Castle 2400kv on 4S and squeeze out a few more RPMs but I dont know how it will run heat wise compared to the 3800kv on 3S. You can also try Jaco foams so you dont have to buy the expensive wheel adapters but my Rusty seemed like it wanted to drift left or right on foams going that fast.

If you wanna go faster than that I can tell ya what you'll need but it will cost ya another probably $500 bucks or more.

 

[KCWCK55]

Old rustler

 

[Riz23]

You could run a Castle 2400kv on 4S and squeeze out a few more RPMs but I dont know how it will run heat wise compared to the 3800kv on 3S. You can also try Jaco foams so you dont have to buy the expensive wheel adapters but my Rusty seemed like it wanted to drift left or right on foams going that fast.

If you wanna go faster than that I can tell ya what you'll need but it will cost ya another probably $500 bucks or more.

He's right. I have a 100mph Rustler and i have at least $950 into it already. You might want to think of it as a cool little basher unless you have lots of cash to pour into it.

 

[ksrichard]

I'm running vx4.45r copperhead with 74spur and 29pinion. Got 63. I'm geting confused with the multi-
Function knob on my tqi 2.4GHz if i want faster setting throttle trim and sub trim do i want to turn the multi function knob to 0 or 100? All the way counter clockwise or clockwise? Please help