yea those stub axles are the first to go under power and the mip cvds arent worth the money as they break too. at least the stubbies with usually go back together after they come apart a couple times,

Nice! IMO 70 MPH is all the fastest I'd want my Rusty to go, it's just not stable enough and the drivetrain is so weak. I'd push something better designed and made for offroad use to 100 or so, one tiny mistake at that speed and your car is done though. My Hyper 7 TQ is setup for street use and currently I'm pushing about 50 MPH on 4s and it's fast enough that it doesn't turn very well (straight-line speed gets boring).

Have you looked into the HPI RS4 MT dogbone conversion? Snellemin runs this setup in his drag Rustler, I haven't had a major enough failure to justify the investment but I'm looking at doing the conversion when my steel U-joints finally let go. My Jato shafts are already ovalling the holes, I've got slop in my steel outputs, and I go through a stub axle every month or two right now. I wish Traxxas would re-design the entire drivetrain of the Rustler :diablo:

i know how those speed runs usually end up,lol:gasp:

Those dogbones aren't totally bulletproof ya know. I've had them in my Rustler for at least 3 years now, and have done everything to them. They have been flung out, bent, had a ball end sheared off, and the cups are showing quite a bit of wear. BUT in my experience the dogbone conversion will hold up better than the stock driveline.

Yeah, nothing can stand up forever. I just get tired of replacing my stub axles all the time. My Jato shafts have about 2 years on them, which is surprising, but still ovalling pretty bad (I guess $4/year for driveshafts isn't so bad...). My $20 steel output yokes are the biggest letdown, they're made out of some of the worst steel I've ever seen and started showing signs of wear within a few months.

I'd love to see Mike come out with some CVAs for the Rustler/Stampede/Bandit as well as Slash. CVD at the wheel and dogbones at the tranny and made out of some proper steel and we'd finally have something that holds up to the kind of power we put to these things. The next thing I would like to see is a tougher diff (sealed would be nice, too). After that change the internal gears to 32p or at least something tougher than the 48s, they hold up well for a while but I've stripped teeth before. Again, better metal would be a nice improvement as well.

I used 25/34 on stock sliders to get to 87mph

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I had to 'mod' the cv ends though, they were good for 2 runs each with the 1515 1.5d on 6S

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The FLM ones have stood up to lots of abuse - Castle Nue 2200 on 4s etc with no signs of wear...

Subject change:

I'm going to have grilled salmon, green beans and garlic bread for dinner...

There are lots of birds outside my window. My dog wants to eat them. :smile:

I make a mean breakfast.

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I make breakfast MEAN!!! :grrrrrr: :lol:

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And now THE funniest video I have ever seen...10 thousand ninjas
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"Can you believe they pay us to do this?" :lol: :lol:

Why I not laugh? Oh yeah, am not funny really... :neutral:

Q. Does every vehicle in USA have an automatic transmission? Why is that? I would guess its simply because most of the roads are long and straight, so no skill is required with regards to shifting up and down at the correct time. Ofcourse, saying something like that might cause a heated debate... :mdr:

this made me laugh
sorry ill have to work on getting it to display right

I think that is what the Maxcraps marketing team looks like on any given day. :lol:

A man and his wife were doing yard work. The husband said to his wife, "Gee, honey, your butt is as wide as the BBQ grill." The wife ignores his remark.

A little later, the husband, measuring tape in hand, walked over to his wife. While she was bending over to tend to her flower bed, he measured her back side. "Honey, your butt IS as wide as the grill!" She again ignores his remark.

Later that night, while in bed, the husband began to feel amorous. He starts to hug her and stroke her until the wife said, "If you think I'm gonna fire up the grill for one little wiener, you're out of your mind!!"

A man is driving down a deserted stretch of highway when he notices a sign out of the corner of his eye. It reads:

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
10 MILES

He thinks this is a figment of his imagination and drives on without second thought.

Soon he sees another sign which reads:

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
5 MILES

Suddenly he begins to realize that these signs are for real and drives past a third sign saying:

SISTERS OF ST.FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
NEXT RIGHT

His curiosity gets the best of him and he pulls into the drive. On the far side of the parking lot is a stone building with a small sign next to the door reading:

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS

He climbs the steps and rings the bell. The door is answered by a nun in a long black habit who asks, 'What may we do for you my son?'

He answers, 'I saw your signs along the highway and was interested in possibly doing business.'

'Very well my son. Please follow me.'

He is led through many winding passages and is soon quite disoriented.

The nun stops at a closed door and tells the man,

'Please knock on this door.'

He does so and another nun in a long habit, holding a tin cup answers the door.

This nun instructs,'Please place $100 in the cup then go through the large wooden door at the end of the hallway.'

He puts $100 in the cup, eagerly trots down the hall and slips through the door pulling it shut behind him.

The door locks, and he finds himself back in the parking lot facing another sign:

GO IN PEACE.
YOU HAVE JUST BEEN SCREWED BY THE SISTERS OF ST.FRANCIS.
SERVES YOU RIGHT,
YOU SINNER

Jack in the Box rocks!

5 speed's own...

Ben never uses the brakes in his car, just downshifts....

Wait... if ben never uses the brakes, just downshifts, he has a stick. But if his car shifts into 5th at 90mph then he has a automatic... Something doesn't add up here.

My landcruiser is a stick....

Expertsexchange.com

Chocolate chip cookies were invented by accident.

You were invented by accident.

Your entire family was invented by accident.

Could be because it takes us more than 15 minutes to get from coast to coast:mdr:

Shifting gets old about the time you hit 19.. I know, you kids think you'll drive like madmen til you're 90. Just wait.

Fun is riding a 30 year old streetbike and obliterating stunter kiddies in the curves.

I should mention that's with tires half as wide, with half the horsepower... and almost double the weight. Really gets them scratching their heads
:rofl:

If you can't drive a manual - call it a shift if you like - you can't drive!

Mmm you pose an interesting theory, it would go a long way explaining why MOST people can't drive... but things are messy enough no? Can you imagine 850 million dolts trying to learn it at once....... that sir spells apocalypse:oh:

I liken changing gears to car control and that in itself implies a basic level of thought during the act of driving

Talking on a phone, eating, smoking, picking your nose etc all become harder if you need to change gears...how many times do you see some goon doing one of the mentioned, drifting accross lanes, running red lights. It's a basic theory but in my experience it works

no its not i have just figured out how to utilize all 5 speeds in my car

L- 1st
2- 2nd
D +hold button- 3rd
D- 4th
W0T and 92mph-5

simple

Haha that's good PBO.

Last summer I was coming home on a backroad, putzing for once on the bike. I see a headlight in my mirror, ok I'm thinking, dude wants to roll with me. So then he passes me.
Ok he wants to go by....... nope he proceeds to pull out his Blackberry and start texting with his clutch hand.

This is at night. This is on a road that is overflowing with deer, fox, turkeys, possum, raccoon, you name it. But all the while he is slowing down, apparently trying to ruffle my feathers. I'm thinking.. this guy can't be serious. Oh he was, and was obviously trying to impress me and/or whatever other form of wildlife that might bear witness to his awesomeness. I entertained the idea of rolling alongside and knocking the toy from his neanderthal hand. Better judgement prevailed however, and I simply passed the steam-powered-weekend-badass-poser. I then got up to 80ish, with a bit of distance in between, and locked the rear. Actually pitched it a bit, dirt-track style.

Guess what he had to grab, and guess what he had to drop to do it.... that's right the clutch, and the phone.

I then made a very effective depart by diving in the left lane as he went by and did the quickest U turn in history... I don't know if he pursued. All I cared about was the critters..

Yeah I may have maimed him (I didn't) but I may have saved his stupid ass at some point in the future.... he learned a valuable lesson. And yeah sometimes you gotta be a bit of an arrogant jackass to do it.

And I have truly seen it all......

Redshift, sometimes you gotta hit 'em between the eyes to make 'em see the error of their ways

I just sold my Ford Escort to buy a Ford Ranger and one requirement was a 5spd manual!

I wish I had a manual... Instead of simply pushing in the clutch, I shift to neutral to save gas when decellerating. Then sometimes I'm not sure if I'm in neutral or drive.... I do know that 2nd gear shifts at 12-15, 3rd gear is 20-23, 4th is 30-32. I try to drive low 20s on 25mph roads and just aboe 30 on 30-35mph roads. On the highway I keep a steady petal and see if I can draft behind a semi/other vehicle.

with that 318 i bet u do, and gas is on the uprise again

Well just now logging in I put in redshit haha except that would be scary....

ML drafting is a bad idea-- ever see a rig tire on the road after a blowout?

They are holding aound 90 psi, you wanna be behind that when it goes? Not to mention a 40+ pound mudflap cominjg loose.

But worst of all, you leave yourself zero reaction time should anything happen where the truck needs to panic stop.

As far as saving money the best thing you can do is simply find another area to conserve... obviously not RC :whistle: , but largely you can't control fuel prices etc, cut back on something you can control. Buy one less pine air freshener---- you get the point.

What kind of car do you have?

LINC......:whip::whip::whip:

I am not reading 19 pages of BS to find that... I think he is feeling the tranny shift from 4th to 3rd, or the torque converter is locking up,unlocking. Those little turds on have a 4spd auto... If the rpms rise after the "shift" you have dropped a gear, if the decrease, but not much, the torque converter is locking up. A locked converter gives better mileage, but you loose the viscous torque multiplying effect.

A black guy in a korean car, sounds like a good start to a joke...

so a black guy in a korean car pulls into a...... anyone want to take it from here?