Winter Set up?

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by monel_funkawitz

I forgot to address the thread. :007:

Just make your truck, electronic wise, the same as you would run in a rain storm. Waterproof the receiver and ESC (I use baggies with rubber bands). Lipos will not work as well in the cold, so I would go with NIMH or Nicad. Run lighter shock oil (I use 10w) Run spiked tires if possible, and weigh the ass end of your truck down with lead wheel weights or whatever. Cleanup sucks.

Once you run a few times like this, it gets old. Run your trucks in the summer, work on 'em in the winter.

Why does it ''get old''??? To me what gets old is staring at my trucks all winter hoping for a break in the weather and a chance to get out and run a few packs. Most of the time I am stuck in parking lots only cuz I don't want to get into the snow for fear of frying something. Anything I can do to get more run time in the winter months will be welcome to me.

[BrianG]

I know it got old for me because I was always breaking various plastic parts - A-arms, steering knuckles, rims, and even bulk heads. Of course, it helps to not hit things, but I know the plastics are far more brittle when it's cold out...

[monel_funkawitz]

It gets old, because for all the screwing around, a 10lb car does not go for crap in a foot of wet snow. Go a few feet, get stuck, spin. Give it a little foot nudge... go a few feet, get stuck, spin.

Light powder snow is a little better, but I'd rather take my trucks down to where I work or at the local school and run them in the gym in the winter.

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by BrianG

the plastics are far more brittle when it's cold out...

Good Point!!

Originally Posted by monel_funkawitz

Go a few feet, get stuck, spin. Give it a little foot nudge... go a few feet, get stuck, spin.

Light powder snow is a little better,

Yea... I wasn't planning on trying to run when its too deep out there. That doesn't sound all that fun.