I crashed my T-Maxx last night, see the video

[alex dell]

I crashed my T-Maxx last night, see the video
I crashed my T-Maxx right in to a Semi last night and my friend caught it in his camcorder. You could see it here:

http://www.beatyourtruck.com/videos/alex_crash.wmv

Please excuse my foul language as that was my reaction during the crash.

I'm not sure what caused the t-maxx to lose radio response. I just bought a used JR XS3i and this was the first night I used it. It was working fine without any glitches an hour before this crash. There was no response as soon as it landed from the ramp. Obviously, my venom failsafe did not activate. My other theory of the cause is that the outside gear of the throttle servo (old stock steering servo) cracked off when it landed from the jump causing the throttle to stay open. This would explain why there was no radio response when I was trying to apply the brake and gas and brake right before it slammed to the semi.

After assessing the damage, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I guess it helped that it slammed in to the tires of the semi instead of the sidewalk. I cracked the stock front bulkhead, bent hinge pins, stock throttle servo (which I fixed by replacing the gears inside with my old throttle servo)and 2 bent stock shocks. The RPM arms survived. I don't care much for the shocks since I just won on eBay 4 UE supershocks a couple of days ago for $46. Now I have an excuse to buy some aluminum bulkheads. I just hope I don't have a defective radio.

Alex

 

[El Pirata]

That's all??? I figured we would have had the satisfaction of seeing the arc of pieces flying like a rainbow across the sky.

 

[SilentGTboy]

lol, so I'm assuming that was your oil that flew out of the truck and not your fuel tank breaking because I didn't see that on the list. Looks like too much fluid came out for it to just be shocks.

 

[alex dell]

Silentboy, it was actually a plastic gallon of oil or fuel that was left next to the semi. I forgot to mention that. Good thing it was not a gallon of urine or something. The t-maxx tires were covered with it.

 

[FastEddy]

Originally posted by El Pirata
That's all??? I figured we would have had the satisfaction of seeing the arc of pieces flying like a rainbow across the sky.

That only happens when you hit a BMW. :shhh:

 

[KoRnKiD]

lol man that sucks crashing your maxx I know I've done it a couple of times.

 

[Maxxcrazy88]

and I watched/ had to fix it both times....

 

[KoRnKiD]

Wow who cares and guess who volintered to fix it?

 

[SilentGTboy]

Originally posted by alex dell
Silentboy, it was actually a plastic gallon of oil or fuel that was left next to the semi. I forgot to mention that. Good thing it was not a gallon of urine or something. The t-maxx tires were covered with it.

Hitting the jug saved more $$ outta your pocket or you could of really messed something up. Like your T-maxx turning into a folding lawn chair It did look like you hit something and then hit the tire. Good thing it wasn't urine. lol
I saw pictures of a guy going out on a raft into a liquid manure pond to get his airplane out

 

[KoRnKiD]

:whhooo: bummer and sic on the air plane thing.

 

[El Pirata]

Originally posted by FastEddy


That only happens when you hit a BMW. :shhh:

Actually that one was rather depressing because it DIDN'T spray an arc of pieces. It just looked like a flattened T-Maxx.

 

[Team 17]

:LoL: I thought it was going to be worse. At least u didn't have a total loss.

 

[mcvickj]

The joy of breaking stuff is going out and buying better stuff to add to your Maxx.


Hey EP do you have any pics of the BWM vs. T-Maxx? I did a search and found the thread but no pics.

 

[Jamie]

Good job the truck was there or you would of been going down the road for a while could of got run over!

 

[SDMaXX]

i hate those radio interferences. Happened to me, my front end was crunched, hit a fence pole at WOT. RPM stuff held up though (that's why i love it so muc ) . Since your failsafe didn't kick in i'm guessing that your on/off switch may have switched off when you landed the jump, that's why i didn't work.