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Post by pro4nut on Mar 21, 2006 14:24:49 GMT
Just an idea, i will list all the parts and quantities of those parts i have broken while racing ondoors since getting the car, (no value to this but potentialy amusing)
5 x spur gears (in first two weeks none since)
1 x front hub (concrete wall..........)
1 x front drive shaft (see above)
1 x large bullet connector (see above)
2 x front upper wishbones
1 x motor mount clamping screw (don't ask)
2 x carbon steering links
2 x drive pins (within 15 minutes of running time-both front left then right)
1 x pushrod (concrete wall again)
near miss
1 x sphere brushless system
hit the thermal cut out twice 4 minutes 50 and 4 minutes 30
nearly broke it when throwing it across my living room that evening
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Post by YoKoMo-MX4 on Mar 21, 2006 15:03:02 GMT
LOL!
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Post by Cooper on Mar 21, 2006 15:56:59 GMT
front upper wishbones? how did that happen?
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Post by pro4nut on Mar 21, 2006 16:36:17 GMT
If your going to crash do it properly...
Sorry coop, this was down to me not locking in the grub screw with either cyano or threadlock so instead of breaking the bullet connector it stripped the thread of the wishbone.
The broken drive shaft was bent at 90 degrees, as was the push rod, forgot about that one......
Thinking about it i think other owners could learn from my mistakes and save themselves a few quid.
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Post by Northy on Mar 21, 2006 17:52:23 GMT
Well done that man! ;D Thinking about it i think other owners could learn from my mistakes and save themselves a few quid. Or read my build tips!  |
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Post by pro4nut on Mar 21, 2006 18:19:36 GMT
the joys of hindsight
having read your build tips i rebuilt my car i broke those to 2 on the first week i ran the car
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Post by chris burgess on Mar 21, 2006 19:20:11 GMT
gearbox tops x 3 - various silly accidents
carbon steering link x 5 (mended now - see my conversion)
carbon front plate x 1 - landed nose down on kerbing
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Post by Northy on Mar 21, 2006 19:34:52 GMT
OK, my tally is: 1 x Front lower wishbone - hit some track marking sticking out at flat chat!  1 x Rear driveshaft - broke the pin that the platis blades sit on. 1 x Steel pinion - cracked one of the drive flanges as I was running without a saver ring. Thats it, not bad seeing as we've had some really car breaking indoor tracks here in the NE, and the car has been driven very hard!!! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Cooper on Mar 21, 2006 20:53:53 GMT
the french guys told me they have never broken a gearboxtop.... on my P8 I broke this while racing: gearboxtop nosecone spur wing bullet ball connectors the biggest crashes I had was from test runs in my garden and hitting a wooden bench  (driveshaft, front carbon plate, lower front wishbones , bend pins, bullet ball connectors) yes the wood was pretty hard... |
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bigboss
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preds rule,the others are too slow!
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Post by bigboss on Mar 29, 2006 17:07:01 GMT
My tally so far:
1 carbon steering link (made one from alloy until the steel one came out).
1 steel pinion at the rear Gbox (before the sleeve/bearing mod).
1 rear upright (before doing Northy's mod).
1 front Gbox top (lost the crash pin too,very hard crash).
I make a point of breaking anything once just for good measure.LOL.
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bigboss
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preds rule,the others are too slow!
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Post by bigboss on Apr 7, 2006 19:04:03 GMT
err, seeing as I'm the last to post here, this might seem a bit like I'm thrashing the car, but I promise I'm not, honest  I managed to break a diff ring in the rear diff and the one side of the "T" pin that goes through the end of the drive shaft (where the plastic blades sit), this all seemed to happen at once(probably landing from a high jump). cost me the A main because I didn't run the main with the diff making strange clicking noises. A fitting end to a crap day and very poor qualifying. Later at home I opened the rear diff up to find the diff ring(drive ring/washer) broken in three pieces. I think the drive shaft failed because of the notchy operation of the diff. I dread to think how the car would have been to drive had I not seen/felt the diff and just put it on the grid. needless to say I'm not a happy camper at the moment. |
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Post by chris burgess on Apr 7, 2006 19:15:51 GMT
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Post by pro4nut on Apr 14, 2006 10:21:06 GMT
Big crash fun, Gear box top Lower front wishbone (smashed in half) Wooden bench at full whack, having just unlapped myself from darren bloomfield... doh!! and a v2 motor, a pack of cells and very nearly lost my new speedo, (unsoldered motor and flapping cables) [glow=green,3,400]Ouch[/glow] ![]() www.the-pred.co.uk/my pictures/wayne.jpg[/img] |
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Post by Northy on Apr 14, 2006 20:38:19 GMT
Good effort! ;D
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Post by jimarea51 on Apr 15, 2006 8:21:26 GMT
Northy you saw my head-on into large piece of wood incident Damaged/broken parts so far:- 1x Carbon fiber front wishbone support plate 1x Front hub 2x wheel bearings 1x bent drive-shaft 2x shattered diff rings 1x front crown gear |
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(driveshaft, front carbon plate, lower front wishbones , bend pins, bullet ball connectors) yes the wood was pretty hard...
