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[HawnMT]

Anyways, people on here seem to be a little on the serious side. This is a hobby and should be fun.

Nah, it's just when the tech talk comes around folks get serious. Honestly it's hard to be too serious with RC monster trucks. :tong

I had a GP and quickly sold it .....

And thank you for the smokin good deal on it.:tmb

the next monster truck I make will be runing all alunam axels like found over at rc4wd

Aluminum isn't always the answer, in fact most of the time it just creates more problems. Ask the nitro guys who went all aluminum only to find out they got expensive overweight shelf queens that would break easier.

I haven't got ANY aluminum upgrades on my GP. I am finally going to give in and try the driveshafts I got rom BC but that's it. Aluminum adds weight which in turn means you need more power which adds more stress which adds more breakage which means you need even stronger parts, it's a death spiral. That's why I'm careful not to just buy upgrades because they are offered. In the case of the shock/link mounts I didn't buy them because I WANTED that part to be the "fuse" that broke when something bad happened. Because if it's not that then it's something bigger like the housings(which are breaking now even though I still have the plastic mounts)

As for how fragile the GP is I don't consider it any worse than the other trucks out there. When Clods came out in '87 I could break the anti rotation brackets and axles tubes just by looking at them wrong. But noways we don't think twice about it because we've learned more about them and have aftermarket support for parts. The same could be said for the GP if we stick with it. Look how far we've come since the truck debuted in November. It now can handle decent brushless power and bashing with a few mnor upgrades.

My General theory on building trucks is to keep them as light as possible(while still retaining strength) and have a suspension that is as soft as reasonably can be expected.

 

[Tad]

The GP isn't the strongest truck out there but for the price and what you get its the best deal going. It needs a few mods but what truck doesn't? It is far stronger than the USA-1 was when it came out and people just modded them to hold up just as we will do with the GP. It is frustrating breaking a truck just after you get it been there and done that lol.

 

[BC.livewire]

get the axels fix and I will get a GP

for now if the truck cant handel a 3600Kv brushless I do not wont it

this is the brushless set up I would run the slashes love it

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=10438&Product_Name=Brushless_Car_Power_System_3600kv/35A

 

[BC.livewire]

HawnMT --- have you tryed those axels I shoogooed tagther ?

the difs ware filled with sillacone grees and the ring gears ware shined

 

[HawnMT]

HawnMT --- have you tryed those axels I shoogooed tagther ?

the difs ware filled with sillacone grees and the ring gears ware shined

Funny enough I un-shoe gooed an axle to find out why there was so much binding in the diff, that's when I found that thick grease. I ended up cleaning it out because I wanted the diff to be open. I used that axle to replace one on my Digger when it broke. But I still have the other axle intact. I just ordered housings from CPE so I can get the truck back together.

 

[BC.livewire]

that stuff is what I use on my Suspension bushings in my 300HP turboed saturn that tube was over $30 even thow you got only 0.04 worth


that grees is some of the nastest stuff you will ever get your finger in

the guys up at the shop was calling it "wail spurm"

 

[bpare207]

Like I said, I didn't mean for my post to mean. And my use of "ranting and raving" was rather inappropriate. So I apologize for that, it's just that when something crappy like that happens, just try to take the steps necessary to fix the problem, rather then say it on a forum. I find that if I type out what I really want to say, and then stare at it for a bit, but then delete it, I always end up feeling much better about the whole thing. It just seemed like Mani was saying that the truck was garbage. Then again, maybe my misinterpretation but I'm really digging this truck and have waited up until this point to move forward with getting it. And some little inkling of when this truck first came out, told me to wait on this truck.

So I apologize for any hostility I may have caused, or created. I in no way want it to seem like that's how we operate around this forum. I know that I myself have given some pretty decent advice on various topics in this forum, and will continue to do so. I love RC MT's and always will~

 

[bosco72]

I had one and sold it there was way to many problems with it. the parts are cheep but we all know the axles are way to thin so redcat should just beef them up and the truck will be fine.I had a revo for 4 years the only thing i broke was the motor mount and i bashed the crap out of it.I hope redcat does fix the axle problem cause i would buy another one.

 

[manimaniacal]

Not that I have anything to compare it to, other than real cars. So here goes, I have a 12 pack of happiness and have this truck for only a minute amount of time, and it breaks over a speed bump. I then send Redcat an email, and hop on this forum to bit** and moan about the quality. Yea, a tad overzealous on my behalf, but factor in 12 Sam Adams. I receive an email from Billy at Redcat saying, "I apologize for the inconvenience. These parts have not broken this easily from my knowledge. I will go ahead and send you these parts out. Just know for the future that suspension parts are not covered under warranty." Received the parts via UPS today. Wow is all I have to say. Kudos to them.

This customer service is comparable to when we had a Ford Expedition, and received crap for service. We then made the switch to Infiniti. With Ford you received BARE MINIMUM, but with Infiniti they bend over backwards, and make sure the customer is happy.

I hope that many others read this and take this newbie's advice, Redcat/CPE=unbelievable customer service. Just like how my family will always own Infiniti's, I shall stand by Redcat/CPE's customer service and vehicles.

 

[bpare207]

Oh boy, 12 pack of Sammie's'll do that to ya lol. I hear ya, that's good though that even though they don't cover them they replaced them for you regardless. I guess they wanted to make a good impression on you, so that way they don't totally lose your business. On here, from the past like 6 months I've been here, it seems that Brett's #1 concern is customer service~which has paid off for him.

 

[TXT-2.0]

^^ in the month i've been here i've noticed that with Brett as well ....which gives me a really good feeling in ordering from them in the future :tmb