Took out the stampede today, and crashed

[andydrew39219]

Haven't been able to run it for a while due to weather and I got a chance today. Got it tuned and running, about 10 minutes in it started going half off the road, I tried to get it back on the road but it wouldn't go and I ended up hitting a large wooden flower pot on the side of the road. I don't think it will be that bad of a fix. The skid plate, chassis backbone and steering servo broke. Everything else is fine, including the tie rods (I was expecting atleast 1 to be bent.

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Here's pic 2

 

[Greywolf74]

What is all of that red stuff on the front of it?

 

[andydrew39219]

I had seasonal saran wrap around the servo to help prevent any sort of water damage.

 

[HPI-Killer]

Chaching, time to upgrade!

 

[mrbones]

Hmmmmmmmm!!!!!! Looks like something I've done before on the mail box post, curb, flower box, bricks around the flower beds, the front wheel of my truck, the neighbors car. I almost got the stop sign post the other day with my 1/5 scale truck. (within 2 inches!) So I move out behind the house in the field where I though I was safe and at full throttle, I lost a screw out of the front wheel hub and it went rolling. These guys say if you're not breaking stuff, you're not having fun.

 

[andydrew39219]

Well, it was about time I broke something. Thinking back of all the times I have crashed into stuff. I'm willing to bet that the chassis backbone was already cracked. I would like to note the steering servo actually works fine, it is just the tabs with the screw holes in them that snapped off. I am disappointed at the fact that they do not make the chassis backbone in aluminum. Why not make the entire chassis aluminum instead of having 3/4 of it aluminum? Does anyone know of a place to get an aluminum chassis backbone? I will probably need one when I toss the 2.5R in there.