wills2095
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Enjoy it. One hell of a fun truck that takes a serious kicking. My Kraton EXB is almost as durable as it, but not quite. It handles surprisingly well for its size and suspension setup and doesn't traction roll often. Plenty fast out of the box on 8s but as others have said, you can make these go 65+ offroad with an 800kv motor.
Something I haven't seen anyone reccommend to you is the RPM hub carriers for the front and rear, the inner bearings are way too small on the stock ones, the bearings on mine went bad in the first few runs. RPM includes huge oversized bearings with thier hubs to fix that issue. Don't get RPM arms however, they rub the suspension and the pins slide out super easy. Traxxas HD arms are a way better upgrade option.
I'd also highly recommend the 2085x servo kit, out of the box the servo saver spring is pretty weak and it's hard for the truck to hold a turn under power. Plus, for some reason, the stock servo has plastic gears, lol. The 2085x kit gets you a faster servo with metal gears and a stiffer servo saver spring that greatly improves steering response.
Some people have issues with the pinion and spur gear breaking, I never really have but if you do Hot Racing and GDS make hardened spur gears and some good pinion brands would be Robinson Racing, Saga, Tekno, basically anything hardened steel.
TLDR: hubs, servo, gears, SEND