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Busy night:

Serviced a MPU and repairs
Replaced a hydraulic motor on an auger
Repaired a failed roller
Replaced a brake chamber and slack adjuster on an Iveco Acco
Repaired a loose transmission selector console
Replaced drivers seat
Repaired a hose reel
Repaired coolant leaks

I'm exhausted.
Time to hit the sack, then do it again tonight.
 
Made some more changes to my crawler, went back to the stock 14t pinion, new 20kg servo and servo horn and also added some +10mm hex extenders to widen it a bit and add a little bit of weight over the plastic hex's. Also get my metal steering parts tomorrow so will be adding them and rig should be solid until I decide on a possible esc change.
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Put a dab of something sticky or slimy (wet paint, loctite, grease, butter, poop, whatever is on hand really) on the top of the posts, then carefully lower the body onto them. The sticky/slimy stuff will transfer onto the underside of the body
 
Changed my spool spur from 34t to 32t in the stretched Typhon and also changed its shoes to grey S1's as my white S3's were about done as I've been running them since about February off and on lol.
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Still working on the kraton. Not much motivation this week. But finally getting to reassembly.
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Diff internals still soaking
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3D printed a XT90 adapter. Installed a Losi 1/5 servo mount, Hot Racing aluminum servo saver, Hot Racing steering bearing supports and a Savox 0236. Got her buttoned back up and will take her for a romp at some point tomorrow.
 
Yesterday: Installed a few upgrade parts on my Kraton 6s, previously stock.

• EXB Front Bumper
• EXB Front & Rear Chassis Braces
• EXB Servo Mount
• Arrma Steel Rear Skid Plate
• Arrma Wheelie Bar

This addresses every major point of concern I had with the truck so far. I don't do suicide bashing since getting back into the hobby so I don't need to make the truck extremely durable, but these all seemed obvious. Front bumper because I'm going to crash into things no matter how I drive. Rear skid because my nitro truggies used to grind the rear of the chassis down over time from landing jumps at the track. Chassis braces because the plastic ones were always a weak point on my nitro truggies and from my reading this seems to be the case with the Kraton as well. Servo mount because the stock mount visibly distorts when the servo is operated with the truck on my bench. Wheelie bar because even with the relatively light stock center diff fluid and punch turned down one level, on 6s it rips wheelies very easily and the rear of the wing was being ground down on hard surfaces.

I also put together a 5 level shelf to stand in the corner of my shop and store all the R/C stuff I'm now accumulating, installed balance boards inside my Bat-Safe to allow me to charge different pack sizes without routing more wires, and sorted and stored a screw set and parts lot from JRC that came in the mail conveniently on the same day my other upgrade parts showed up.

Today: Tires

Need to swap the tires on my 1:1 vehicle because I live in northern Canada and the snow will fly soon, then once I finish I might finally get around to venting the Kraton tires.
 
Spent a good portion of the day cleaning, reorganizing and redoing/making the counter on my work bench. Long overdue and still have piles of parts and misc under the counter on the shelves that needs done next. Definitely nice to have everything all organized and room to work on multiple cars again😁 oh and fit them all up there too lol but definitely need to build another rig shelf or 3🤣
Before
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Besides my bench also cut the battery trays in the Limitless to fit the new G+ 6000mAh packs. Not the prettiest but it works so that's all I care about and I can fit dual 4s and 6s packs. Also decided to swap out the smaller 4s Outcast wing on the Bigrock for a 6s Kraton wing.
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