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First, I wouldn't run aluminum arms on a truck I bash. It will just transfer the force of impact to the next weakest spot, which would be the pin mount. I'd rather replace an arm. Second, GPM is known for crappy aluminum so my guess is they would bend on the first nasty hit. Hard pass.I see GPM now has Aluminum Suspension Arms for the K8S....What are your thoughts on these? can't be much worse than whats on it now, which is on backorder from horizon..GPM has alot of parts for the K8S..your thoughts??
When I was looking at building an E-Maxx back in the day, I found Fast Lane Machine made aluminum a arms for the E/T-Maxx, everyone said not to get them as the hinge pins would bend and getting them out was a major pain in the ace.I watched a dude with an all aluminum savage many years ago. Was a mismash of integy and GPM. He was flying along through a parking lot, WOT and lost control. It cartwheeled a few times. Bent 3 out of the 4 arms to the point they wouldn't hardly move up and down, destroyed the front/rear skids and bent the hinge pins pretty badly. Guessing those weren't fun taking out. He was very sad.
It sure looked all pretty and sparkly as it cartwheeled to it's death though.
Yes... it was a pain even with just alloy bulkheads. Had to carefully dremel them in the middle to cut them in half then pull half from the front and half from the rear. They would bend in a bad crash with RPM arms and alloy bulkheads. I went through soooooo many hinge pins on that thing. Was a stupid design as they didn't capture the front of the hinge pins like EVERY OTHER TRUCK ON THE F'ING PLANET!When I was looking at building an E-Maxx back in the day, I found Fast Lane Machine made aluminum a arms for the E/T-Maxx, everyone said not to get them as the hinge pins would bend and getting them out was a major pain in the ace.
My E-Maxx died a terrible death at the hands of a nameless person who decided to alloy the thing to a perfect basher But the Trx junk he kept on it like the pins constantly turned into U's making them impossible to remove w/o cutting them. Then he ran it into a cart rack & taco'd it. The arms were the only parts not bent. But it had alloy bumpers too so all that force went straight into the chassis. I really did hate that truck. I gave him a Stampy for destroying it so completely He still has it though.Yes... it was a pain even with just alloy bulkheads. Had to carefully dremel them in the middle to cut them in half then pull half from the front and half from the rear. They would bend in a bad crash with RPM arms and alloy bulkheads. I went through soooooo many hinge pins on that thing. Was a stupid design as they didn't capture the front of the hinge pins like EVERY OTHER TRUCK ON THE F'ING PLANET!
Sorry, kind of went off the rails there.
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