vaderman
Well-Known Member
i have a question to those who upgrade parts on their rigs.
on a smaller off-road car I have from maybe a decade ago, I broke a front trailing arm. I replaced both cool aluminum ones. Then broke a rear one. Same drill. Then the chassis where it attached to the pivot for the front arms broke. By tha time I forgot what the vehicle was and my LHS (where I hadn’t purchased it) also didn’t know. The shop I purchased it from was out of business.
Ok, long way to get to the question (sorry!)
Do you find that you chase pieces as you replace them? I mean, you upgrade a part and it just passes along the stress that would gave broken or flexed it and causes the next piece to then break?
I am starting a build of an ARRMA senton 3S build and love all the accessories and upgrade parts, but wonder if I am setting myself up for a chain reaction of failures.
Anyone have thoughts on this? Maybe it is a naive question, I love this stuff but have only dabbled in it a few times and my knowledge and experience is very limited.
Thanks!
on a smaller off-road car I have from maybe a decade ago, I broke a front trailing arm. I replaced both cool aluminum ones. Then broke a rear one. Same drill. Then the chassis where it attached to the pivot for the front arms broke. By tha time I forgot what the vehicle was and my LHS (where I hadn’t purchased it) also didn’t know. The shop I purchased it from was out of business.
Ok, long way to get to the question (sorry!)
Do you find that you chase pieces as you replace them? I mean, you upgrade a part and it just passes along the stress that would gave broken or flexed it and causes the next piece to then break?
I am starting a build of an ARRMA senton 3S build and love all the accessories and upgrade parts, but wonder if I am setting myself up for a chain reaction of failures.
Anyone have thoughts on this? Maybe it is a naive question, I love this stuff but have only dabbled in it a few times and my knowledge and experience is very limited.
Thanks!