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Finnster · 06.02.2010, 01:33 PM

@ Jahay: Everyone mounts the motors like that, and I haven't heard of any damages. I've had bad enough landings on my truggy the chassis flexed and bent up far enough to slap the rear of the motor, yet no damage to the motor mount. (did sever a servo wire running underneath tho.)

I would also strongly recc using the steel mod1 spurs. Not only are you looking at easily stripping plastic (vs steel) the smaller pitch will make it even weaker. The spur is $27, yet the pinion is $10. Replacing a pinion every now and then is much cheaper than the spur, plus nothing ruins your day like stripping a spur, and then sitting waiting for the new one to ship.

The CD mount is back in stock and I just ordered one. I was planning to mount it on an FLM skidplate, but the ext one I wanted is OOS.

I cant tell from the pix on the skid plate tho how clean it will be. On the RCM site, the pix of the FLM skid show little relief machine work. OTOH, some pix on FLMs site show quite a bit of machining. I'm assuming the FLM pix are more recent revs of the part, so not sure how this will effect it.

Lastly, does anyone have any ideas on dogbones? Even if I kept the rear stocker, the f would have to have a longer one.

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Finnster KillaHurtz Offline Posts: 2,958 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bucks Co, PA	06.02.2010, 01:33 PM @ Jahay: Everyone mounts the motors like that, and I haven't heard of any damages. I've had bad enough landings on my truggy the chassis flexed and bent up far enough to slap the rear of the motor, yet no damage to the motor mount. (did sever a servo wire running underneath tho.) I would also strongly recc using the steel mod1 spurs. Not only are you looking at easily stripping plastic (vs steel) the smaller pitch will make it even weaker. The spur is $27, yet the pinion is $10. Replacing a pinion every now and then is much cheaper than the spur, plus nothing ruins your day like stripping a spur, and then sitting waiting for the new one to ship. The CD mount is back in stock and I just ordered one. I was planning to mount it on an FLM skidplate, but the ext one I wanted is OOS. I cant tell from the pix on the skid plate tho how clean it will be. On the RCM site, the pix of the FLM skid show little relief machine work. OTOH, some pix on FLMs site show quite a bit of machining. I'm assuming the FLM pix are more recent revs of the part, so not sure how this will effect it. Lastly, does anyone have any ideas on dogbones? Even if I kept the rear stocker, the f would have to have a longer one.