Ran the truck for about 20mins, and did not have any issues with the plastic spur. I picked up a few more spurs, and will have my machinist accurately cut out the centers.
Much better in the noise dept, almost silent now. I am glad that I did this, and would recommend it to anyone. I am in the process of making a new battery tray, so that I can do some eagle tree testing with different lipos.
More runtime, no issues yet. I am really liking the quiter crt.5. I play with it more now, managed to break the rear body mount! Otherwise it seems like a good. solid truck!