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I was just gonna show it in the " what did you work on today " , but I want to hear those with Xmaxx experience and give mine so made a thread.
This Xmaxx is about 6 years old , if I had to guess there are maybe 15 full pack runs on the original stock electronics , then the ESC started glitching so I put in the Firma 160a and 1250kv motor and maybe another 5 full pack runs , and if I'm off , maybe the truck has 25 packs .
So I don't know to either complain or be happy about this , during the time the breakages have been a rear bearing , bumpers and diff outdrives .......... even the stock servo still works !!! ( but slow ) , until now . At the RCM bash day I was sending it rather high / backflips / etc , landing was on hard packed dirt . After some hard landings I heard the death noise clicking , and thought a diff has went so stopped driving it .
During this teardown found more than I thought was broken / worn , a broken rear arm , front lower and upper bulkhead cracked , and bottom bulkhead cover , shock tower , rear shock blown out , ALL 4 corners bearings crunchy , steering rack bearings crunchy , diff bearings crunchy , and the clicking was not a diff but just the driveshaft tube bent , but all 4 outdrives worn again that fast ????
The good , the diffs and the gears are perfect !!!
Now that I am gonna bring all this stuff back up to par , I also will not be putting the stock servo back in , just gonna do the Traxxas 2085x direct bolt in metal gear high torque servo , stock motor going back in , but I have to get an ESC , so will get either another Firma160a or a HW Max6 ( would NEVER do a Traxxas ESC!!!! ) as the electronics that just coming out are going into the K8S EXB I just got .
When I ad ad up all this stuff $$$$ , I'm kinda glad I picked up the K8S !!!! LOL
So I might just put this aside , and just start slowly collecting the parts over the winter .
This Xmaxx is about 6 years old , if I had to guess there are maybe 15 full pack runs on the original stock electronics , then the ESC started glitching so I put in the Firma 160a and 1250kv motor and maybe another 5 full pack runs , and if I'm off , maybe the truck has 25 packs .
So I don't know to either complain or be happy about this , during the time the breakages have been a rear bearing , bumpers and diff outdrives .......... even the stock servo still works !!! ( but slow ) , until now . At the RCM bash day I was sending it rather high / backflips / etc , landing was on hard packed dirt . After some hard landings I heard the death noise clicking , and thought a diff has went so stopped driving it .
During this teardown found more than I thought was broken / worn , a broken rear arm , front lower and upper bulkhead cracked , and bottom bulkhead cover , shock tower , rear shock blown out , ALL 4 corners bearings crunchy , steering rack bearings crunchy , diff bearings crunchy , and the clicking was not a diff but just the driveshaft tube bent , but all 4 outdrives worn again that fast ????
The good , the diffs and the gears are perfect !!!
Now that I am gonna bring all this stuff back up to par , I also will not be putting the stock servo back in , just gonna do the Traxxas 2085x direct bolt in metal gear high torque servo , stock motor going back in , but I have to get an ESC , so will get either another Firma160a or a HW Max6 ( would NEVER do a Traxxas ESC!!!! ) as the electronics that just coming out are going into the K8S EXB I just got .
When I ad ad up all this stuff $$$$ , I'm kinda glad I picked up the K8S !!!! LOL
So I might just put this aside , and just start slowly collecting the parts over the winter .