Trooper - 4WD Short Course Truck

Thanks for the pics, looks like thats the only option short of adding the spare cone to the top to get the clearance.

Too soft? I'd say up the spring tension. If that's not enough try 50 weight oil.

They look a decent upgrade to the plastic ones at least. Still waiting the next batch to come in.

For anyones that interested, my Brother & I got the opportunity to try the Hobbyking Sensor/Sensorless 60Amp Car ESC in our Troopers. Both units performed terrible. Stuttered starts and shutting down after a minute running.

However, note these were run in stock form as they cannot be programmed with the TX and the programming cards were out of stock. Maybe re-programmed they would be fine, perhaps they are defaulted to Sensor mode or something. Would be interested to hear from someone thats run them.

I'd have to say, now that I own several of them, the Tunigy (Hobbywing) 60A ESC is by far the best ESC of all I have tried. They have really soaked up some abuse and the 4 I have (2 in the Troopers, 2 in the QRF-400s) have never had a single issue.

yeah the Quik-60A is a good ESC no issues yet either. I haven't pushed it hard enough to say how it goes as I am now running it in a 10th scale Crawler as I liked the forward/reverse option with no brake stop in between.

you're not having enough fun with the Trooper unless your breaking something    I did something similar by hitting a concrete garden edge corner and the alloy undertray chipped a big piece of concrete out. One font wheel ended up in the middle of the cab inside.
Had to replace the entire front corner but surprisingly the main chassis was servicable.

I am now well versed at pulling a corner off the truck for re-servicing suspension arms, dog bones, diffs and bearings. You can seperate the whole corner in one piece by un-doing the bulkhead on the right (not necessarily the right side of the truck). You don't have to remove the arm pivot pins, just undo the alloy cross arm.

By taking one set of arms off you can replace most of the drive train on both sides. I agree about the fiddly e-clip, I have a special needle nose pliers for that and a bag of spares for when they disappear across the workshop.

What 5000mAh 3S packs did you get to fit in?

Well I've had a play around with it this morning and, after reading around, decided to pack out the knuckles...

What a difference! All the crazy wild slop is gone from the wheels, the only play left in them is in the bearings.
Also when I was taking the wheels off I found out that both rear wheels had been screwed on without locating onto the hubs blargh! So I don't know if its worth checking on anyone elses :)

I also read that someone removed the play out of the left hand steering post by adding a bearing to the bottom of the shaft. I'm waiting for my alloy upgrade version to be sent (When it come back in stock) to see if that fixes the problem, otherwise I'll try and modify the stock one.

So I received my aluminium steering setup and it has a lot of slop in it just like the plastic one.



As you can see there is a big gap in the housing around the pin, so I ordered some bearings to fit, slightly drilled out the housing and fitted one.



So now all the play in the servo links has gone from the front right hand wheel :)
These pics are of the plastic one, but I will do the same to the aluminium one when I go to use it.

If anyone is interested the bearings are 5mm ID 8mm OD 2.5mm thick traxxas bearings.