Lame Day Enders

[flm_savage]

Whats the lamest thing thats happened to you to end a bash session?
Mine happened today. I was out beating on the truck hardcore. It took a full gallon for that axial to wake up and now it runs 280-300 but i still have a stream of smoke and its making great power. If it only lasts 2 more gallons, i will have enough cashola for when the LRP .30 is released. Anyway, i am out flipping, rolling, sailing and cartwheeling with the truck and all of the sudden i get the loud brappy loose exhaust tone. I walk over to it and the stupid spring that holds the header on has pulled through the holes on the header and is MIA. I don't have another one so i am down until tomorrow.

So there's mine. after all that abuse, my day gets shut down by a dinky spring.

 

[h8z2luze]

I lost a set screw at the end of a bash in the same truck It was retarded....

 

[flm_savage]

I lost a set screw at the end of a bash in the same truck It was retarded....

yeah, they have some blue juice on them now.


the only thing left from the truck i got from you is the 645mg, engine mount, shock towers, body posts and front drive shaft.

 

[Rolex]

A few years ago, the LHS and track was having a local TV station do some taping for an ad.
While the cameras were setting up, a few of us regulars were on the track warming up.
At the time I had a Tmaxx with a custom rear exhaust. Well, I caught a jump wrong and came down on the tail, ripping the silicone exhaust coupler just as they got ready to start shooting.
By the time I got the part and installed it, the shoot was finished.:\

 

[neobart]

Once when I had my LST racer I burned through a gallon at the track, and everything was running sweet. I pack up my stuff and go home.

Next day I decide to go to another track near me. I'm all alone(it was early), I fire up the truck and get it warmed up when I realize that I the day before had packed up my transmitter without turning it off. :\

I go home not wanting to wait for anyone to show up, put in some fresh batteries and go to a nearby park for some bashing. 2 mins into the session I break a CVD pin......... Replaced and ready to go in 5-10 mins.

5 mins more and I break the output shaft.

 

[grgbulldog]

The day before Thanksgiving '08 I was at my uncle's house, I had one of those little black ramps you can buy at Toys 'R Us or Walmart set up on a curb at a steep angle, and I was jumping my brushless RC18T off it getting 10-15 feet of air over and over again. I probobly went through 5-6 batteries that day. What killed it wasn't jumping and getting massive air though. It was hitting a pebble on the street and veering off course into the curb. It didn't even hit that hard,but it broke the steering bell crank in 2 pieces.

 

[savon]

I was tuning in front of my house and i lost the hex pin for the rear wheels, and didn't have anymore

 

[Cupooterluvr]

I was at the track jumping my Maxx when I broke the rear center shaft. I didn't have any more and the guy in the shop there only had Revo shafts.

 

[flm_savage]

I was tuning in front of my house and i lost the hex pin for the rear wheels, and didn't have anymore

hahaha, been there. Those are slippery little things.

 

[Metalhead Matt]

When I was about 10 years old I raced my Sledgehammer at the local indoor track. They let monster trucks run on the carpet when the pan cars where done. I had the slowest truck out there(xl1? Twister stock motor and a dynomite pack of some sort, probably a 13-1500). Anyways, I was the only one that didn't keep breaking down so I made the A-main! I got so excited, I left my battery lying on a metal folding chair while it charged. I wasn't on the track very long for the final.

 

[Karl M]

I lost a packing that takes up the slack between the output shaft and drive cup just before a race, tossed the shaft out and took 10 min to find it.

 

[charliejp]

Not sure it's the worst. Today I took the Savage out to some fun little dirt jumps and was even further amazed at the beating that thing was taking. I was sending it 15 feet plus in the air and coming down on everything but all 4s, ocassionally with a beautifull landing. Went throught 4 1/2 tanks and all of a sudden I heard that terrible clicking and loss of power to the rear. Sounds like the diff but I didn't dig into it today.

 

[Racer 1966]

Way back when I had my Nitro Sport, I went out to run it to show some friends. The transmitter battery door was broken and just held on with tape. Just after starting it, I hit the throttle while simultaneously the battery door loosened. Just enough for 1 battery to come loose. Zoooom! It was gone, full throttle into a tree. Yeah, no failsafe either!

 

[alpinehyperlite]

During the first Baton Rouge Crawl and Bash, i was running a 3s lipo on the slash, and 5700kv brushless setup, and forgot to adjust the gearing. Yea...... it caught on fire.

 

[neobart]

Another good one.

I was bashing the LST in a nearby industrial area. It was a big patch of grass right next to a busy road with trees between it and the road.

I had messed with the linkages and hadn't noticed the throttle was stuck wide open, yeah and the rx was off. Anyways I stick in the glow start and turn the spinstart.......... and the thing just took of on me like a bat out of hell. I stood there with a dumb look on my face turning the transmitter on and off.

It took me some seconds to start chasing the bugger, while it was heading right for the busy road.... and mofo big trees.

For some reason it missed the trees, began to swerve left just missing the road traffic and miss the trees once again on the way back. All that jolting around finally got the throttle to drop enough for it to come to a stop.

I now use rubber bands on the carb to avoid further scares.

 

[kswiencki]

This might not be the worst of the wrecks, but I must tell
All the snow had finally melted and I brought the Maxx to the new bashin' pits... Miles of hard packed sand with no one to kick you out! After throwing my shoulder out trying to start the thing (Rebuilt mill that hasn't ran in 3 months) I finnaly get it running.. After a few warm up back-and-forths, I decided to try a hill climb..... yeah, needless to say, not even a 1/2 tank in, i had to scour up the pieces of the rear diff, rear axles, and misc rear suspention pieces... In soft sand.. and to top it off, my wife just sat there and laughed... it was the first time out with the maxxx...

 

[flm_savage]

This might not be the worst of the wrecks, but I must tell
All the snow had finally melted and I brought the Maxx to the new bashin' pits... Miles of hard packed sand with no one to kick you out! After throwing my shoulder out trying to start the thing (Rebuilt mill that hasn't ran in 3 months) I finnaly get it running.. After a few warm up back-and-forths, I decided to try a hill climb..... yeah, needless to say, not even a 1/2 tank in, i had to scour up the pieces of the rear diff, rear axles, and misc rear suspention pieces... In soft sand.. and to top it off, my wife just sat there and laughed... it was the first time out with the maxxx...

sounds like its time for a real truck.

 

[chelseafc385]

Today, after a week of my X-cellerator being out of use, i finally got it going again (had to wait for the parts to come in the LHS) I used it for about 15 minutes, when my brother asked if he could have a go. I let him, after about 1 minute, he put it straight under a car, now there is a lot of damage done and i dont think i will be able to take it on holiday with me on tuesday.
On the plus side, i was pretty impressed with the way it lifted the whole back of the Citroen Picasso that ran it over.
I've looked on the internet at the parts that I've came across that are broken (so far) and it will cost over £40 to get it back on the road.
I think now though I'm not going to let anyone else drive it but me.

 

[Greyryder]

Worst one, was when I was a kid. We didn't have much money, so it took me months of saving just to get a cheap crap Tyco truck. I was running it by the pond behind the woods near where I lived it. I wasn't that far away from it, and slammed into reverse, to stop it. It just kept going full tilt into the water. I had it less than a week.

Oddly enough, I once found standing water in the bottom of the case of the first generation Rooster I had in my old Kyosho truck, after a mud run. I didn't even think it was that wet, where I was running it. The Rooster never missed a beat, and it still works.

 

[Cupooterluvr]

My radio's battery tray melted.