RC body clips pulling through body

[JacobPlott]

Hi me and my brother are building a stampede to mess around with he got it for his 15th birthday and we ran it constantly. We were kids so we wrecked the car a lot. The body clips pulled through the body shell. We just ordered a new body for the car because we are getting back into it and I was wondering if anyone had any advise on how to prevent this from happening again. Thanks

 

[hamz9561]

There are felt washers that are made to help prevent the issue that you are talking about.

 

[Xraycer]

For all my high speed vehicles, I reinforce the entire body. I apply drywall tape and ShooGoo to the entire inside of the body. It really increases the durability of the bodies. I suppose you could just use this technique to just around the body post areas, of you don't feel like doing the whole thing. There are quite a few YT videos about this. I use those skin tight latex/nitrile medical type gloves to apply the SG. I find it gives me more control than paintbrushes.

 

[tntpoof]

there's many products on the market..there's a guy that sells body washer in many different colors. I just ca. glue the ontop of body.
http://www.pprslots.com/rc.htm

 

[JacobPlott]

There are felt washers that are made to help prevent the issue that you are talking about.

Do you know anywhere that I could buy these

 

[TurboChargedHonda]

https://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-Foam...6KKDYXD6WGW&psc=1&refRID=K8XQPK3R26KKDYXD6WGW

You can also get the Proline Extended Body Mounts with screw-on style caps.

 

[Tunedfrog]

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbypark-Wa...rds=rc+car+body+washers&qid=1623961383&sr=8-2

 

[Tunedfrog]

I also have a couples sets of these and they work pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Racing-C...ds=rc+car+body+washers&qid=1623961559&sr=8-44

 

[tntpoof]

id just head over to amazon buy the color of felt you want. even a hole punch they have adhesive backed felt

 

[olds97_lss]

I also have a couples sets of these and they work pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Racing-C...ds=rc+car+body+washers&qid=1623961559&sr=8-44

Those are nice!

 

[Chubaka]

Welcome to the site!

I had the same issues years ago. I ended up using a washer under the body, and another under the clip.

I found the best solution is to extend my truck and run Maxx Revo bodies from proline. To do this I made a home made extension I found online. My other truck I bought an flm 1/8 chassis. The first mod is $10. The chassis is $60. If interested, I can link the cheaper mod page.

My truck at the time was getting a good 6 feet of air on a built ramp, and jumping off truck docks, as well as sliding and rolling across a parking lot.

 

[JacobPlott]

Thank you all very much I think I am gonna end up going with the Hot Racing body clip and washer set up. Again thanks to all for the recommendations

 

[Greywolf74]

I just buy regular metal washers and drill out the inner diameter to that of the body post.

 

[WickedFog]

I used to fix my beat up bodies with styrene. You can make washers to glue underneath the shell pretty easily. In my slot car days I used to glue styrene strips to the insides of the body where the mounting holes were to stiffen them up. The contant on-off of the body between heats wore them out.