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Originally Posted by jpoprock
So... do we know yet what LENGTH the rod needs to be in order to fit from the shock mount to the wing? I have a ton of these, and they are either too long or too short. A proper measurement would help, cuz I would like to get some to try!
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You sound mad for some reason.
The LENGTH of the rod will change depending on how you fabricate the part that goes on top of the shock tower to secure the rod to. I didn't measure anything when I made this thing. I made the CF part that goes on the shock tower and used that same shock tower as a template to make the holes. Once it was installed, it was just a matter of filling the gap between that part I made and the body mount. I used an old style P2 pushrod that was all aluminum and put a few more threads at each end and cut the excess to make it fit.
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Originally Posted by jpoprock
However, if you do take a hard landing on the wing, doesn't that then just cause more stress and pressure on the shock mount, possibly causing it to rip itself from the chassis? Or bust a bulkhead?? I'd rather lose a wingmount then to destroy either of those!
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The rod ads strength and rigidity to the body mount but the rod is still the weak point. Either the rod will bend (or crack in the case of the CF one) or the ball ends will be pulled out. I have seen aluminum chassis' that were bent upwards and those bulkheads ruined because the M4 screws were pulled out of them when the chassis bent. That rod is a mod that was brought to fix that problem, it has proven to work very well ever since rear wings were introduced to the Revo.